Canadian wood products industries . o get away from the waywardnessand flamboyance that characterizes so much of lateLouis XV. design. In the covering of seat and backwe find a most refined feeling, which leads me todirect readers to the differences to be found in designsof textiles of the various periods, of this series. Com-pare, if you will, the chair coverings of the examplessubmitted as representative of the Louis XIV. andXV. with those herewith submitted. It constitutesin itself a liberal education in style, which is the veryreason for my being so particular as to include them Not usuall
Canadian wood products industries . o get away from the waywardnessand flamboyance that characterizes so much of lateLouis XV. design. In the covering of seat and backwe find a most refined feeling, which leads me todirect readers to the differences to be found in designsof textiles of the various periods, of this series. Com-pare, if you will, the chair coverings of the examplessubmitted as representative of the Louis XIV. andXV. with those herewith submitted. It constitutesin itself a liberal education in style, which is the veryreason for my being so particular as to include them Not usually in chair delineation are the designers ofcoverings so definitely detailed. Fig. 4 shows chair legs of the period as usuallyto be found. The curved leg is representative of thetransitional period. Once the style was establishedthe cabriole or curved leg went into the discard. Itis never to be met with in pure examples of the 7 exhibits the high quality of much of the ara-besque carving and running ornament of the Fig. 6. Salembin, a noted designer of the day, is responsiblefor these exquisite examples of designing fancy. InFig. 6 is shown a table typical of the style. While agreat deal of the furniture and interior woodwork ofthe time was coated with plaster of paris and thengilt, or if not gilt, painted in white, pale green, deli-cate rose and the like, with gold trimmings. Manyexamples were in natural wood finished with thegreatest brilliancy. When finished in green after theVernis-Martin manner the embellishment was bypaintings of the shepherd and shepherdess mounts of the utmost delicacy of execution sup-plied needed emphasis. Most of the wall painting of the time was in ac-cordance with the simple life idea. Marie Antoinette
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