The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . fe, a NewYork chair- and cabinet-maker, who may very appro-priately be called the American Sheraton. He waspossessed of a remarkable sense of proportion andendowed with excellent good taste, so that the furniturehe designed redeemed much of the bald ugliness andclumsy ponderosity of some of the other work producedin great quantity. As in English Empire work, car-cases were rectilinear and shaped or serpentine frontswere no longer in vogue. Cornices an
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . fe, a NewYork chair- and cabinet-maker, who may very appro-priately be called the American Sheraton. He waspossessed of a remarkable sense of proportion andendowed with excellent good taste, so that the furniturehe designed redeemed much of the bald ugliness andclumsy ponderosity of some of the other work producedin great quantity. As in English Empire work, car-cases were rectilinear and shaped or serpentine frontswere no longer in vogue. Cornices and mouldings wereheavy. The supports of large pieces of cabinet-wrorkwere turned. The chairs were simpler in type and lesspretentious but in the main followed the same generallines of structure. Drawers on some of the pieces ofcabinet-work had heavy oval swell fronts, although theframework was perfectly straight. Bedsteads had boththe old high posts (Key XVI, 5) and the shortened posts(Key XVI, 6) surmounted by carving (Fig. 1, F). Inalmost all cases there were higher foot-boards whichpresented a new feature. AMERICAN EMPIRE 289 3 Q H •a. 19 290 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE CHAIRS The American Empire chair is more graceful in thelong run than its English cousin, upon which fantasticnotions were often allowed free play. Seats were custo-marily square (Key XVI, 2 and 4; Fig. 2), legs wereboth straight (Key XVI, 4; and Fig. 2) and outwardcurved (Key XVI, 2) following the lines of the legsin the old classic curule chair. The top rail of the
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