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 [etc.] ... 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 ... by Thomas Chippendale.

Main entry:

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

Title & Author:

Edition:

The 3d ed. London, Printed for the author ... MDCCLXII.

Publication:

New York : Towse Pub. Co., 1938.

Description:

[23] pages, 101 plates, [20] pages illustrations 47 cm

Notes:
Reprint of (manifestation): Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779. Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. The 3d ed. London : Printed for the author, 1762 (OCoLC)1540556

Summary:

"American furniture vogue of this era as interpreted by the prominent firms ... through whose cooperation this book is published": p. [11], 1-90 (at end).

Subject:

Furniture.
Furniture United States.
Interior decoration United States.
Decoration and ornament Chippendale style.
Meubles.
Décoration intérieure États-Unis.
Décoration et ornement Style chippendale.
furniture.
Chippendale.
Interior decoration.
United States.

Added entries:

Storey, Walter Rendell, 1881- Gallery of Chippendale furniture and a sketch of Chippendale's life and works.

Gallery of Chippendale furniture
The gentleman and cabinet maker's director, by Thomas Chippendale. Supplement: A gallery of Chippendale furniture and a sketch of Chippendale's life and works, by Walter Rendell Story

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Location: Library main m 115085
Call No.: M8836; ID:85-B19002
Status: Available

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