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Decoration and ornament - Chippendale style
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great Variety of Chairs, Sofas, Beds, and Couches; China-Tables, Dressing-Tables, Shaving-Tables, Bason-Stands, and Teakettle-Stands; Frames for Marble-Slabs, Bureau-Dressing-Tables, and Commodes; Writing-Tables, and Library-Tables; Library-Book-Cases, Organ-Cases for private Rooms, or Churches, Desks, and Book-Cases; Dressing and Writing-Tables with Book-Cases, Toilets, Cabinets, and Cloaths-Presses; China-Cases, China-Shelves, and Book-Shelves; Candle-Stands, Terms for Busts, Stands for China Jars, and Pedestals; Cisterns for Water, Lanthorns, and Chandeliers; Fire-Screens, Brackets, and Clock-Cases; Pier-Glasses, and Table-Frames; Girandoles, Chimney-Pieces, and Picture-Frames; Stove-Grates, Boarders, Frets, Chinese-Railing, and Brass-Work, for Furniture. And Other Ornaments. To which is Prefixed. A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture; with Proper Directions for executing the most difficult Pieces, the Mouldings being exhibited at large, and the Dimensions of each Design specified. The Whole comprehended in Two Hundred Copper-Plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present Taste, and suited to the Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in all Degrees of Life. By Thomas Chippendale, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. Commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified: the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: [1754]