. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. restrained manner thanthe carved leg shown on the chair in Fig. 13. And so we come along in the years and enter the Georgianperiod, so-called, properly beginning with the reigns of the fourGeorges from 1714 to 1830. In this century much of the verybest work was executed, and after a period of two hundred yearothe modern designer is holding up the work of Chippendale, Hep-plewhite and Sheraton as masters unexcelled. INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 19 More is known today of Chippendale style than is knownof the man Thomas Chippend
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. restrained manner thanthe carved leg shown on the chair in Fig. 13. And so we come along in the years and enter the Georgianperiod, so-called, properly beginning with the reigns of the fourGeorges from 1714 to 1830. In this century much of the verybest work was executed, and after a period of two hundred yearothe modern designer is holding up the work of Chippendale, Hep-plewhite and Sheraton as masters unexcelled. INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 19 More is known today of Chippendale style than is knownof the man Thomas Chippendale, who was born in 1708 anddied in 1779. With little knowledge of his private life and per-sonality, we can, however, arrive at an estimate of the man whenwe review the years in which he lived and accomplished so muchthat found favor among his wealthy patrons, which leads us tobelieve that he would be a rare success today; for while not es-pecially original, he possessed great ability to put this andthat together with results which produced a style that has car-.
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