Principles of decorative design . t in such furniture. In former days, when the principles of goodjoinery were really understood, the legs of such a large table as that of the dining-room would have been made of a very different form from the lumpy, pear-shapedthings of modern use. In nearly all these remarks I agree with jNIr. Eastlake, and especially in hisremark that, owing to the very nature of its construction, a modern dining-tablemust be an inartistic object. No work can be satisfactory in which any portions ofthe true supporting structure or frame are drawn apart; and this occurs to a
Principles of decorative design . t in such furniture. In former days, when the principles of goodjoinery were really understood, the legs of such a large table as that of the dining-room would have been made of a very different form from the lumpy, pear-shapedthings of modern use. In nearly all these remarks I agree with jNIr. Eastlake, and especially in hisremark that, owing to the very nature of its construction, a modern dining-tablemust be an inartistic object. No work can be satisfactory in which any portions ofthe true supporting structure or frame are drawn apart; and this occurs to a markeddegree in this table, as is shown in Mr. Eastlakes illustration, which we here copy(Fig. 43). Falsities of structure, although not so glaring as that of the telescopic dining-table, are everywhere met with in our shops, and, curious as it may appear, the greatmajority of the works offered to the public are not only fiilse in stracture, but areutterly offensive to good taste in every way, and are formed almost exclusively of. Fig. 43 68 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. wood cut across the grain, which securea to the article the maximum amount ofweakness. Figs, -li-, 15, 40, and are examples of utterly bad furniture.
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