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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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earthed, some inlaid with various woods and withlittle squares of bright turquoise blue pottery let in as arelief; others veneered with ivory; wooden spoonscarved in most intricate designs, of which one, repre-senting a girl among lotus flowers, is a work of greatartistic skill; boats of wood, head-rests and carvedmodels of parts of houses and granaries, together withwriting materials, different kinds of tools and imple-ments and quantities of personal ornaments and requi-sites. Indeed the more we know of the Egyptians the morewre are led to believe that long before Greece or Romewere known they enjoyed a remarkably high state ofcivilization and learning, with all their accompanyingadvantages. A figure given (in group) exhibit two very oldchairs and a couple of Egyptian chairmakers at work,with some of the tools and materials scattered about onthe floor. Here we see a square, a couple of adzes, anda drill in the hands of one of the workmen, who is bor- J 34 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER
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THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 135 ing a hole in the chair by using a bow to turn the drill.These tools are very much like the tools in use today.Several finished chair legs are seen on the wall. Thiscarving on the walls of a tomb, was executed betweentwo and three thousand years ago. Furniture used by the Chaldeans, the Assyrians,Babylonians, Hebrews and other old nations, was ofsimilar type to the Egyptian, as may be seen by refer-ring 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 f

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