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Identifier: moderncabinetwor00well (find matches)
Title: Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wells, Percy A Hooper, John, b. 1882
Subjects: Cabinetwork Furniture making
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Text Appearing Before Image:
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A Late Seventeenth Century Chest of Drawers. (To face page 251. HISTORIC STYLES OF FURNITURE AND MODERN EXAMPLES 251 seat on Plate XXVI. are modern examples of Gothic work from the workshops ofHarry Hems & Sons, Exeter. The pulpit, designed for the church at Lantiglos,Cornwall, is made chiefly of English oak, a timber which Mr Hems prefers touse whenever possible. The seat is in Hungarian wainscot, which, though lesscostly and easier in the working, does not possess the fine qualities of theEnglish timber. Renaissance or Classic Revival.—With the revival of learning therecame great and sweeping changes in the domestic arts, and with them also camemore luxurious living. The movement began in Italy and spread to France.The work known as Historic French is associated with the reigns of Francis I.from 1515 to 1547, and of Henri II. up to 1559. The furniture, made chiefly ofwalnut, was richly carved with classic details of a mixed order. Acanthusleaves, dentils, egg and tongue, with