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 1 Figure 2 If examples of Egyptian furniture are scarce, thefurniture of Assyria is practically non-existent, as theclimate of the latter country was not so dry or pre-servative as that of Egypt, so that all examples that-have not been wilfully destroyed have long ago ornaments of bronze and of ivory decorationshave been discovered that have been used as mountingsto fee
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 1 Figure 2 If examples of Egyptian furniture are scarce, thefurniture of Assyria is practically non-existent, as theclimate of the latter country was not so dry or pre-servative as that of Egypt, so that all examples that-have not been wilfully destroyed have long ago ornaments of bronze and of ivory decorationshave been discovered that have been used as mountingsto feet, ends of legs of seats, chairs, or thrones. The 24 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER bas-reliefs of the latter enables us to form a fairly ac-curate judgment of the nature and style of Assyrianfurniture, the decoration of which was of a heavier andcoarser character than that of the more elegantEgyptian ( Fig. 4 and 5 ). Forms and parts of animals
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