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 95 drawers are really little cupboards, as is indicated inthe working drawing. That any manufacturer to-daywould invest the labor needed to make this table proper-ly, is perhaps, doubtful; yet the elements of its con-struction deserves study and adaptation. The little table, and the arm-chair shown at , are fine chaste specimens of the Sheraton period andcould well afford to be
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 95 drawers are really little cupboards, as is indicated inthe working drawing. That any manufacturer to-daywould invest the labor needed to make this table proper-ly, is perhaps, doubtful; yet the elements of its con-struction deserves study and adaptation. The little table, and the arm-chair shown at , are fine chaste specimens of the Sheraton period andcould well afford to be imitated. If space allowed wewould very much like to publish three or four plates ofSheratons designs, but we have already devoted morespace than we first intended, so in this case we offer onePlate, X, which shows up quite a number of Sheratons THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 179 best designs; and these, along with the figured illustra-tions, will, we think, make sufficient exhibits for Figure 96 Plates XI and XII show some fine examples ofHeppelwhites work. These are choice specimens of thisstyle, and show up some very good work. Plate XIIexhibits six sideboards, four pedestals, and a tea chestby Heppelwhite. The dimensions of the sideboards 180 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER are:—Length, from 5^ ft. to 7 ft.; height, 3 ft.; depth,28 in. to 32 in. The notes referring to Nos. 5, 8, 9,and 11 state that the ornaments to the fronts . .may be carved, painted, or inlaid with various coloredwoods. The pedestals were made of the same heightas the sideboards, were generally about 16 in. or 18 in.
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