Furniture For The Craftsman; A Manual For The Student And Machanic
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Author(s)Paul D. Otter
ISBN / ASINB007PF7UPQ
ISBN-13978B007PF7UP4
MarketplaceGermany 🇩🇪
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FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN
CHAPTER I
INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS ON PRESENT-DAY FURNITURE
A MAN becomes a responsible factor in life when he engages an interesting side partner to help and confer with him in his plans and future welfare. The home then becomes a talked-of subject and very soon a reality. The endeavor in this preliminary article will be to consider the subject of furniture as tools and equipment of domestic use, requiring the same intelligent conception and selection of each piece for one's needs in establishing the home as would be given to the selection of some necessary tool.
Following this review the purpose is to later detail various pieces of furniture in such a manner that those interested may construct them; also to present illustrations of good types of furniture which will enable them to more readily select from dealers such patterns as will prove satisfactory to present needs and future refinement of the home.
As life and the establishment of the home is begun with much sentiment and always with the substantial thought of permanence, so should the selection and gathering together of all things be attended with the same substantial thought of permanence. Too often a home is thoughtlessly established by buying things hurriedly or getting possession of nondescript pieces
—this to a lasting regret when loving association attaches by use even to a chair or a table of a poor pattern.
By considering the subject carefully at the time of purchasing, one may secure neat furniture of a plain form and design which will be in harmony with other furniture forms one may desire to make from time to time. To illustrate, compare a quite possible selection of sideboard which you bought ten years ago—say Fig. I—and then Fig. 2, which you wish to make or buy. Fig.
Fig. 1—An Ornamental Sideboard of Very Questionable Design.
2 has in its direct lines and quiet surfaces the dignity of service and it will always be in favor. Fig. i—well, it is quite like some overdressed, slangy person, and there will soon come a day when you will cut his acquaintance.
How to know furniture is a leading question to one who is refurnishing, or to the home planner. Be he ever so fastidious
in matters and correctness of dress, he may feel quite at a loss in furnishing the rooms of a new home. Heretofore insufficient attention has been given to style or architectural type of our exteriors in the selection of furniture. Now we do see evidence
Fig. 2— a Buffet Sideboard.
of more regard in relation to exterior and interior harmony and in the arrangement as well as purpose of each room.
To more clearly illustrate recent discrimination in selecting furniture, one may take up various back numbers of magazines, which so frequently open, as it were, the door of our homes, permitting us to look within. Do you not see that this living room or that library contains an odd assortment of mismatched furniture? It is true, such an array does not always indicate absence of a developing taste for good things in furniture; far from it. I should now, while writing, dislike mightly to have a
newspaper photographer come in and snap-shot some of my furniture, for way back in the early partnership days did not the low income decide the selection of this chair or that table? I guard them as jealously as a dog with his foot over a well-earned bone; they represent much that is hallowed with sentiment. The high chair is fondly tolerated; the old rocker, though it be of a "passe" factory pattern, the daughter would not permit of its banishment, as it pictures in the mind many hours and days of rockaway rides into story and sleepland with mother. No, do not put them away in the attic, but let us suggest to the newly married to appreciate the great opportunity of this period to secure furniture of good outline and plain surfaces. Good furniture is now so prevalent that you will unconsciously know it when you go out to look for it intently. To know
CHAPTER I
INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS ON PRESENT-DAY FURNITURE
A MAN becomes a responsible factor in life when he engages an interesting side partner to help and confer with him in his plans and future welfare. The home then becomes a talked-of subject and very soon a reality. The endeavor in this preliminary article will be to consider the subject of furniture as tools and equipment of domestic use, requiring the same intelligent conception and selection of each piece for one's needs in establishing the home as would be given to the selection of some necessary tool.
Following this review the purpose is to later detail various pieces of furniture in such a manner that those interested may construct them; also to present illustrations of good types of furniture which will enable them to more readily select from dealers such patterns as will prove satisfactory to present needs and future refinement of the home.
As life and the establishment of the home is begun with much sentiment and always with the substantial thought of permanence, so should the selection and gathering together of all things be attended with the same substantial thought of permanence. Too often a home is thoughtlessly established by buying things hurriedly or getting possession of nondescript pieces
—this to a lasting regret when loving association attaches by use even to a chair or a table of a poor pattern.
By considering the subject carefully at the time of purchasing, one may secure neat furniture of a plain form and design which will be in harmony with other furniture forms one may desire to make from time to time. To illustrate, compare a quite possible selection of sideboard which you bought ten years ago—say Fig. I—and then Fig. 2, which you wish to make or buy. Fig.
Fig. 1—An Ornamental Sideboard of Very Questionable Design.
2 has in its direct lines and quiet surfaces the dignity of service and it will always be in favor. Fig. i—well, it is quite like some overdressed, slangy person, and there will soon come a day when you will cut his acquaintance.
How to know furniture is a leading question to one who is refurnishing, or to the home planner. Be he ever so fastidious
in matters and correctness of dress, he may feel quite at a loss in furnishing the rooms of a new home. Heretofore insufficient attention has been given to style or architectural type of our exteriors in the selection of furniture. Now we do see evidence
Fig. 2— a Buffet Sideboard.
of more regard in relation to exterior and interior harmony and in the arrangement as well as purpose of each room.
To more clearly illustrate recent discrimination in selecting furniture, one may take up various back numbers of magazines, which so frequently open, as it were, the door of our homes, permitting us to look within. Do you not see that this living room or that library contains an odd assortment of mismatched furniture? It is true, such an array does not always indicate absence of a developing taste for good things in furniture; far from it. I should now, while writing, dislike mightly to have a
newspaper photographer come in and snap-shot some of my furniture, for way back in the early partnership days did not the low income decide the selection of this chair or that table? I guard them as jealously as a dog with his foot over a well-earned bone; they represent much that is hallowed with sentiment. The high chair is fondly tolerated; the old rocker, though it be of a "passe" factory pattern, the daughter would not permit of its banishment, as it pictures in the mind many hours and days of rockaway rides into story and sleepland with mother. No, do not put them away in the attic, but let us suggest to the newly married to appreciate the great opportunity of this period to secure furniture of good outline and plain surfaces. Good furniture is now so prevalent that you will unconsciously know it when you go out to look for it intently. To know
