Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 73
s. If three would be better, or five, or any other number, let us use what would be best.* I have now given several illustrations of modes of forming chairs. I might have given many more, but it is not my duty to try and exhaust a subject. What 1 have to do is simply point out principles, and call… … Fig. 33. meet with ; and fourthly, of further means of producing desirable and satisfactory results than those set forth in my illustrations. As it cannot be doubted that a well-constructed work, however plain or simj^le it may be, gives satisfaction to those who behold it — while a work of the…
Decoration and ornament
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