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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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llows (Fig. 34) is a further illustra-tion of the design and excellence of workmanship asshown in the work of the wood carvers of Italy in thesixteenth century, or Cinquecento period. Another fine specimen of wood carving is the Italianstool (Fig. 35) of the same date, which is remarkablefor its delicacy of treatment. Another form of chair of a rectangular character,with or without arms, having an embossed leather orvelvet covering on the back and seat, with turned andcarved legs and rails, was made in Italy about this time(Fig. 36) ; it was much used subsequently in Spain,France, and in England, and has continued to be infavor down to the present day. Cabinets were made in Italy and in France in whichslabs of beautifully colored and veined marbles andrare stones were inserted as panels in various shapes,to which the name of pietradura work was given. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 53 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries paintedplaques of porcelain took the place of these marbles.
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Figure 35 In England, France, Spain, and Germany, the greathouses, both private and religious, and the kingspalaces were elaborately furnished, and kept in a stateof great splendor. 54 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER Figure 36 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 55 Churches were also furnished with elaborate stalls,pulpits, and rich utensils, but in the latter the style ofthe designs was still Mediaeval. In the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. inEngland the style gradually altered to the Italian formsof the Renaissance, and great quantities of Italian,Flemish, and French furniture were largely imported.Jean de Mabuse and Torrigiano were employed asarchitects and sculptors by Henry VII., and Holbeinand some Italian artists designed furniture and gold-smiths work for Henry VIII. In France, during the reigns of Francois I., Catherinede Medici, and Henry II., a great activity took placein architecture and in all the industrial arts, in whichthat country was not only imitated, but sought to excel,

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