Автор: Otter, Paul D.
Название: Furniture for the craftsman: a manual for the student and machanic
Издательство: New York, Davis Williams company
Год: 1914
Язык: английский
Страниц: 316
Формат: JPG
Размер: 41,28 Мб
This starts with a small history of English furniture, with much loathing for the collectors’ beloved XIV. He points out that Mission and its descendant Arts & Crafts or Craftsman refers back to simplified Renaissance furniture, the carpenter Jacobean of the New World missions from Spain, from American colonial, from the simpler Chippendale (not Chinese Chippendale or Rococo Chippendale), Hepplewhite, and Sheraton, and thinks the simpler forms of Queen Ann perfectly fine. Of course, what he despises in 1890s gingerbread might be exactly what you love, in which case don’t decorate with the simple bands he suggests, but the ornate ones he gives just as clearly as bad examples.
