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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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which the doorkeeper sits, are usually found in en-trance-halls, and if we add the elaborate metal andcolored-glass lamps, the vases, the large metal salversor trays, and the rugs and carpets, the furniture of aSaracenic house is complete. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 47
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Figure 31 ITALIAN AND OTHER FURNITURE OF THERENAISSANCE. In the early part of the fifteenth century and duringthe whole of the century the furniture of Europe gen-erally was designed more or less on Gothic lines, butgradually the new forms that were now rapidly de-veloping in the architecture of the Renaissance, but ina slower measure, began to assert themselves in furni-ture designs. Consequently, we find in many articles,such as armoires or presses, and cabinets, a mixture ofstyle in the design—as, for instance, the upper panelswould be in the Mediaeval, and the lower ones in theRenaissance style, or the general construction would beGothic, and the details and decoration would be Italian. This was more often the case in the furniture andother art in Germany, where the Renaissance wastardily welcomed. Styles of design in furniture overlap each other somuch, especially in the Renaissance period, that it be-came very difficult to assign a correct date to manypieces of important work.

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