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 .. . peror Napoleon I. The meanest thinghad some symbol or allusion by the way of decorationthat should remind everybody of the greatness of thenew monarch and of the French Empire, and conse-quently the heavy and ponderous style of that periodwas known as the Empire Style. The furniture ofthe Empire was usually made in mahogany, decoratedwith mountings in brass or bronze, of sphinxes, griffins,
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 .. . peror Napoleon I. The meanest thinghad some symbol or allusion by the way of decorationthat should remind everybody of the greatness of thenew monarch and of the French Empire, and conse-quently the heavy and ponderous style of that periodwas known as the Empire Style. The furniture ofthe Empire was usually made in mahogany, decoratedwith mountings in brass or bronze, of sphinxes, griffins,Roman emblems, and antique scrollery. Percier and Fontaine are names of French cabinet-makers and designers who worked in the Empire style,and who published a book of their designs. (Fig. 55.) In England the style was copied, and endless imita-tions of the French fashion in tables, sofas, chairs, cabi-nets, and clocks were designed after the same antiqueideals. In this country, during the earlier half of the last THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 87 century the mediaeval Gothic style was partly revivedin architecture and in furniture, mainly owing to theefforts of W. Pugin, the architect. He designed many. Figure 55 pieces of furniture, and published a work consisting ofGothic designs in the year 1835. Notwithstanding theefforts of Pugin and some other eminent architects andpurists, no particular lasting impression was made inthis direction. If we except a few of the best cabinet-makers shops,where in the present day some furniture of good design 88 THE PRACTICAL CABINET .MAKER
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