. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 21With the introduction of the arm chair, formalism and stiffnessgave way and the upholsterer developed his craft more. I n Fig. 21 18 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN is shown a Queen Anne settee which is very populartoday, the picture indicating the peculiar scroll roll arm whichin those days had their purpose of accommodating the full orhoop skirt of the ladies. Cane came into considerable use aboutthis time for filling backs and seats to chairs. The toilet mirror and writing desk in Fig. 22 and what wasthen special furni
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 21With the introduction of the arm chair, formalism and stiffnessgave way and the upholsterer developed his craft more. I n Fig. 21 18 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN is shown a Queen Anne settee which is very populartoday, the picture indicating the peculiar scroll roll arm whichin those days had their purpose of accommodating the full orhoop skirt of the ladies. Cane came into considerable use aboutthis time for filling backs and seats to chairs. The toilet mirror and writing desk in Fig. 22 and what wasthen special furniture also came into favor. Men of prominence. Fig. 22. Fig. 23. and writers had furniture or chairs built to meet personal whimsor needs, just as one would order a suit from his tailor. Fig. 23illustrates such a chair made for the poet Gay. Note the cabri-ole leg, a French shape but cut in a more 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 mu
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