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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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he decline.When Boulle used wood it was ebony, which the cabinetmakers, his successors, on the plea of its difficulty inworking, in taking the glue or varnish—Boulle neverused varnish—and other reasons, replaced with stainedpear-wood. In the choice of his woods Boulle showedthe extremest care, and one of his severest blows washis loss, by the fire that destroyed his collection ofprints, of a qauntity of rare woods which he had, welearn from the inventory he made at the time, longstored by to season. The bronze he used was honestlychiselled and chased and gilt, not lacquered, and eachornament was a design not stamped out. The secrets of Boulles skill may be said to have diedwith their inventor, for though the traditions were con-tinued, the sobriety and the grandiose style of the masterwill be found to be sadly wanting in all the work of hisimitators. So much was this recognized that, through-out the last century, in all the sale catalogues the works THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 147
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Figure 69 148 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER by Boulle himself are conspicuously marked, more thanone collector made it his specialty to gather specimensof the great cabinet makers work. Boulle died at the age of eighty-two (February 29,1732) at his house in the Louvre, and was buried in the

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