DOI Heft:
Nr. 334 (March 1925)
DOI Artikel:Erskine, Ralph C.: American furniture design
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0213
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beams requisitioned from an old
barn for the ceiling, with rough
plaster between. An old-time
cupboard for books and papers.
Tables and chairs built on the
old lines with careful regard for
details in construction and fin-
ish, but made comfortable for
today. Wider latitude in rugs,
draperies and accessories make
the room colorful, liveable and
modern in the sense that it is
essentially an expression of our
thought today, based on our in-
heritance of design from the
past. When one considers that
some of the most beautiful rooms
that remain to us were the work
of country carpenters, there is
no reason why the simple details
described above cannot be re-
vived, considering the resources
now at our command.
Of this First Period also is
some of the most beautiful fur-
niture ever created. These were
troublous times at home in
England. Cromwell raged up
and down the land and so im-
pressed his name upon the people
that certain chairs and tables of
austere form were called "Crom- an American chest of the first period, made of oak and pine with squash
t™JI;„ " /^i T TT -o-T i__„ ball turnings and pegged joints, possesses inspiration for modern
wellian. Charles II, with lean- office furniture
ings toward the church of Rome,
brought new elaboration to his furnishings and mon protestants were cruelly persecuted. Then
from them certain high-backed chairs with cane came many a good cabinetmaker to New England,
and carving were called "Carolean." The com- They gave us our banister backs and Carolean
chairs with "heart and crown"
design. And lastly, the people
of England invited William of
Orange, the Hollander, to come
over and be their king and he
brought with him the best cab-
inetmakers of all. Fiddle-back
chairs with cabriole legs and
Dutch feet. Walnut highboys
with trumpet turnings and deli-
cate stretchers. Queen Anne
followed and the same forms in
furniture were continued.
a desk for the modern office,
illustrating the application of
conventional details in design
and construction, taken from the
chest of oak and pine shown above
march 1925 jour seveniy.tbree
beams requisitioned from an old
barn for the ceiling, with rough
plaster between. An old-time
cupboard for books and papers.
Tables and chairs built on the
old lines with careful regard for
details in construction and fin-
ish, but made comfortable for
today. Wider latitude in rugs,
draperies and accessories make
the room colorful, liveable and
modern in the sense that it is
essentially an expression of our
thought today, based on our in-
heritance of design from the
past. When one considers that
some of the most beautiful rooms
that remain to us were the work
of country carpenters, there is
no reason why the simple details
described above cannot be re-
vived, considering the resources
now at our command.
Of this First Period also is
some of the most beautiful fur-
niture ever created. These were
troublous times at home in
England. Cromwell raged up
and down the land and so im-
pressed his name upon the people
that certain chairs and tables of
austere form were called "Crom- an American chest of the first period, made of oak and pine with squash
t™JI;„ " /^i T TT -o-T i__„ ball turnings and pegged joints, possesses inspiration for modern
wellian. Charles II, with lean- office furniture
ings toward the church of Rome,
brought new elaboration to his furnishings and mon protestants were cruelly persecuted. Then
from them certain high-backed chairs with cane came many a good cabinetmaker to New England,
and carving were called "Carolean." The com- They gave us our banister backs and Carolean
chairs with "heart and crown"
design. And lastly, the people
of England invited William of
Orange, the Hollander, to come
over and be their king and he
brought with him the best cab-
inetmakers of all. Fiddle-back
chairs with cabriole legs and
Dutch feet. Walnut highboys
with trumpet turnings and deli-
cate stretchers. Queen Anne
followed and the same forms in
furniture were continued.
a desk for the modern office,
illustrating the application of
conventional details in design
and construction, taken from the
chest of oak and pine shown above
march 1925 jour seveniy.tbree