The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 136 should be glued and screwed together, blocks being putat the back to give additional strength. No. 2 showsa solid hardwood moulding faced upon softwood, themould having a rebate for the insertion of a dentil(shown by dotted lines), egg-and-dart, or other or-nament. Ofttimes the cabinet-maker is left to design themouldings, in which case it is absolutely necessary thathe be thorou
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 136 should be glued and screwed together, blocks being putat the back to give additional strength. No. 2 showsa solid hardwood moulding faced upon softwood, themould having a rebate for the insertion of a dentil(shown by dotted lines), egg-and-dart, or other or-nament. Ofttimes the cabinet-maker is left to design themouldings, in which case it is absolutely necessary thathe be thoroughly conversant with the mouldings of theparticular style or period in which he is working, as aGothic mould would be out of place upon a Renaissancepiece of work, and a Jacobean cornice upon a Sheraton 234 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER job. If the designer is not conversant with the gram-mar of ornament, all kinds of incongruous mixtures are. Figure 137 created, neither true to style nor beautiful. The sameremarks apply also to carving and turnery, and as there
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