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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919
Subjects: Cabinetwork Furniture making
Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to a number of illustrations shown, also examplesof Greek and Roman furniture are given. Some of the chairs shown are fine examples, and bothare constructed on Egyptian and other lines. Laterstyles, or rather examples of later styles, are shown inFigs. 19, 20, the coronation chair, 28, and others shownin the first chapter. The Gothic style in furniture began during the reignof Louis VIII, and St. Louis (Louis IX)—1223-1270;the style growing out of the Byzantine style of Archi-tecture, and was introduced by the artists and crafts-men brought to France from Constantinople by the re-turning crusaders. The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries had been re-markable for a general development of commerce; mer-chants had traded extensively with the East, and hadgrown opulent, and their homes naturally displayedsigns of wealth and comfort that in former times hadbeen impossible to any but princes and rich nobles. Towards the fourteenth century, there was in high 136 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER
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THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 137 quarters a taste for high and rich colorings and we havethe testimony of an old writer who describes the interiorof the Hotel de Beheme, which, after being the resi-dence of several great personages, was given by CharlesVI. in 1388 to his brother the Duke of Orleans. Inthis palace was a room used by the Duke, hung withcloth of gold, embroidered with windmills. There werebesides rich carpets with gold flowers, cushions of clothof gold, and summer carpets of Arragon leather. As we approach the end of the fourteenth century wefind canopies added to the chairs, which were carvedin oak and chestnut and sometimes elaborately gildedand picked out in color. The canopied seats were bulkyand throne-like constructions, and were abandonedtoward the end of the fifteenth century, for a somewhatsmaller and less massive seat. The high-backed chair shown in Fig. 62 is a sampleof this style. Chairs, tables, beds and fittings were allmade in this style and the interiors w

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