Library Record
Metadata
Object Type |
Book |
Title |
The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director |
Author |
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779 |
Summary |
Unaltered and unabridged republication of the 1762 edition of The Director. Articles of furniture depicted are extremely varied: chairs, sofas, canopy and dome beds, couches, bed and window cornices, breakfast tables, shaving tables, commodes, chamber organs, cabinets, candle stands, cisterns, chimney pieces, picture frames, frets and other decorations, etc. Besides many plates of elegant drawings, this volume also includes a supplement of photographs of 18th century Chippendale-style pieces, and a short biographical sketch of Chippendale by N.I. Bienenstock. |
Call No. |
NK2542 .C5 A3 1966 |
Publisher |
Dover Publications |
Publication/Copyright Date |
[1966] |
Alternate Title(s) |
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director |
Subjects |
Furniture--England--Early works to 1800 Decoration and ornament--Chippendale style--Early works to 1800 Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779 |
Notes |
"Reprint of the Third Edition with a Biographical Sketch and Photographic Supplemental of Chippendale-Type Furniture"--t.p. Full title of original: 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. |
ISBN |
0-486-21601-2 |
Object ID # |
2004.004.0050 |