The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Furniture

doubtedly is, it is yet liable to misuse
from thoughtless affectation. If it is
only to be loaded with a commonplace
breakfast or dinner-service, its place,
surely, is rather, in the kitchen or the
pantry. The presence of a kitchen
dresser in the dining room is justifiable
chiefly, if not solely, as a means of dis-
playing such fine pieces of china, plate
or pewter as shall materially enhance
the decoration of the room.

A dresser with a clock (somewhat
after the type of a grandfather's clock)
embodied in it is no reproduction of
an old model, notwithstanding its claim
to be so, but simply a modern "make-up" writing-table designed and executed by

devised by some experimenting fabri- in mahogany hampton & sons, ltd.

cator of "antiques." Let not its quaint

and attractive appearance deceive

BH^HBHHHMHHjl^H the

^^m*^ The oak dresser (p. 57) from

itel^i n Messrs. Bartholomew & Fletcher's

is a handsome and characteristic
example of the Jacobean period.
It should be compared with a
sideboard of Messrs. Hampton's
(p. 56), which is an instance of the
!£p application of old detail to modern
gjfj furniture. In both cases the decora-
tion of the panels and door fronts,
howsoever familiar, is worth calling
attention to, because of the diver-
sified range of which it is capable.
The method is simplicity itself; to
wit, the arrangement of mouldings
in geometrical devices. In this
class of ornament the enclosed area
has the effect of sunk panelling,
because the irregular spaces around

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I S~ - mY^~ Rush or nearly nusn> wrtn tne face

«th\ of the mouldings themselves. The

II whole presents a pleasant contrast

IV,,_ I _of light and shade, especially if the

gP "' "T'*""'■"" '""p c£ - a-:-.--. ^JES $ furniture in question is placed

[(L,*- at right angles to a window, so

H Amrwwygg|BB^^P JISBfcthat the light falls upon it from
H>fflHS BO S-'-jJ^P^W the side rather than directly from

the front.

The sideboard is the plainer of
I .i^hUBHI the two examples, all the mould-

ings of which its ornament is com-
bookcase in oak, inlaid designed by frank murray b . ■ mitre-box.

with ebony and sycamore executed by maple & co., ltd. poscu ucmg

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