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 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE 
 
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 IJVTMRIOR E)ECOK*dTIOJV, 
 
 IN THE MOST APPROVED AND ELEGANT TASTE; 
 
 viz. 
 
 Curtains ; Draperies ; Beds ; Cornices ; 
 
 Chairs and Sofas for Parlors, Libraries, Draiuing Rooms, &c. ; 
 
 Library Fauteuils ; Seats ; Ottomans ; Chaises Longue ; 
 
 Tables for Libraries, Writing, Work, Dressing, &c. ; 
 
 Sideboards ; Celerets ; Bookcases ; Screens ; Candelabri ; Chiffoniers ; 
 
 Commodes ; Pier Tables ; Wardrobes ; Pedestals ;. Glasses ; 
 
 Mirrors ; Lamps ; Jardiniers ; &c. : 
 
 WITH 
 
 VARIOUS DESIGNS FOR ROOMS, GEOMETRICAL AND IN PERSPECTIVE, 
 
 SHEWING THE DECORATIONS, ADJUSTMENT OF THE FURNITURE, &c. 
 
 ALSO 
 
 SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS, 
 
 AND 
 
 A DESCRIPTION OF EACH PLATE. 
 
 ENGRAVED ON 158 PLATES, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. 
 
 BY GEORGE SMITH, 
 
 UPHOLDER EXTRAORDINARY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY J.TAYLOR, AT THE ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, NO. 5Q, HIGH HOLBORN. 
 
 1808. 
 
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 S. Gosneli, Printer, Little Queen Street. 
 
TO 
 
 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Allow me to express the grateful Sense I 
 entertain of Your Royal Highness's gracious Condescension, 
 in granting Permission that this Work may be dedicated to so 
 distinguished a Judge, a Patron of all that is elegant and 
 usefully ornamental. 
 
 Already appointed Upholder Extraordinary to Your 
 Royal Highness, I feel an additional Pride from the 
 Indulgence, and most respectfully subscribe myself, with all 
 Deference and Humility, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Your Royal Highness's 
 
 Most humble and devoted Servant, 
 
 GEORGE SMITH. 
 
 Princess Street, ' 
 
 Cavendish Square. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The taste and fashion in Furniture, and in the decorative parts of 
 modern houses, have lately undergone so great a change, that an apology 
 is not necessary for introducing this work to the public. The superb 
 style in which Household Furniture, particularly the upholstery part, is 
 now executed, and the classic elegance which guides the forms of 
 Cabinet-work, render a publication of Designs on so important and 
 costly a part of modern embellishment absolutely necessary, that the 
 beauty and elegance displayed in the flttings-up of modern houses may 
 not be confined to the stately mansions of our Nobility in the metropolis, 
 but be published for the use of the country at large, as a guide to 
 foreign nations, and as an evidence of the superior taste and skill ex- 
 hibited in the manufactures of this country. 
 
 Change in fashion becomes a source of wealth and commerce, and 
 contributes to those daily occupations which make life preferable in 
 civilized society, and, when founded on true taste, should be encouraged 
 with all possible care, as well by the Virtuoso as by the true Patriot. I 
 must here beg leave to congratulate my countrymen on the propitious 
 change which has taken place in our national taste of Furniture : this 
 has arisen from a more close investigation and imitation of the beautiful 
 remains of ancient sculpture and painting, which have been studied by 
 enlightened travellers, and also been laid before the public in various 
 books of great cost and elegance. 
 
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 To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the highest praise is 
 due, who has so liberally employed his elegant fancy and acknowledged 
 good taste in promoting this noble pursuit after classic originals : and the 
 elegant display of superior virtu exhibited in his palaces in Pall Mall and 
 at Brighton, at the same time it evinces an enlightened and highly culti- 
 vated mind, has not failed of exciting many noble persons to follow so 
 laudable an example ; and I am happy to say, that a corresponding taste 
 and liberality has been shewn by various gentlemen of high rank, who 
 have lately exercised the most liberal encouragement of the best artists 
 in the different departments concerned in the embellishments of modern 
 houses. 
 
 I cannot here do a better service to my brother artists, than by 
 recommending them to study, with all care and assiduity, the numerous 
 examples which may be selected from various antique specimens of 
 sculpture and painting, which may be seen in the Galleries and Libraries 
 of the curious : it is only by a minute observation of apparently the 
 most trifling parts, that the studious artist becomes habituated to com- 
 pare, to select, and to arrange ; taking not so much the mere pattern 
 or imitation, but the spirit and principle on which the original was 
 composed : hence will arise new forms and combinations in an endless 
 variety, still keeping the original in view, according to the abilities of 
 the designer and the skill of the workman. 
 
 It must be observed, that the enlightened artist can only find suitable 
 encouragement under the fostering care of men of large fortune and 
 liberal minds ; and I am happy to say that scarcely any article for do- 
 mestic use, possessing beauty of form or elegance of workmanship, but 
 has been bought with a liberality and eagerness, which shews more 
 want of able artists than of liberal patrons. 
 
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 In selecting the articles and in composing the Designs for this work, 
 I have been anxious to exhibit principally such as are suitable to elegant 
 and polite life, and for adorning the most extensive mansion as well aa 
 the social villa : and I flatter myself the work displays a variety of the 
 newest patterns, combined with classic taste, for the plainest and for the 
 most superb articles of modern furniture, studied from the best antique 
 examples of the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles ; and to augment 
 this variety, some Designs are given after the Gothic or old English 
 fashion, and also according to the costume of China. 
 
 How well I have succeeded in adopting, in the following Designs, 
 the maxims and precepts which I have recommended to others, is not 
 for me to say : yet I cannot but feel myself highly flattered in seeing so 
 many of my inventions carried into execution by different workmen, 
 and in having been myself employed by some of the most exalted cha- 
 racters in the country to manufacture many of the Designs, some of 
 which have been considered the most difficult to be executed. 
 
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LIST of the PLATES. 
 
 KATE 
 
 •1. 
 
 2. 
 3. 
 
 4. 
 5. 
 6. 
 
 7. 
 
 9- 
 
 10. 
 
 ji. 
 
 12. 
 13. 
 14. 
 
 15. 
 
 16. 
 
 17- 
 18. 
 
 ^19- 
 
 20. 
 21. 
 
 22. 
 23. 
 
 Drawing Room Window Cornices. 
 
 Window Cornices and Drapery. 
 
 Cornices and Drapery in the Chi- 
 nese Style. 
 
 Window Cornices, A. 
 
 — Curtain, D. 
 
 B. 
 
 C. 
 
 A. 
 
 Military Window Curtain. 
 
 Continued Drapery and Window 
 Curtains, A. 
 
 Ditto, B. 
 
 Continued Drapery. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 Bed Pillars. 
 
 Bed Pillars and Footboard, A. 
 
 Ditto, B. 
 
 Bed Cornices, B. 
 
 in the Gothic Style. 
 
 Cribb Bedfiead. 
 Tent Bed. 
 Field Bed. 
 
 Design for a Bed, B. 
 Military Officer's Bed. 
 24. Design for a Dome Bed. 
 
 25. 
 26. 
 
 27. 
 
 •28. 
 
 29. 
 ^30. 
 
 31. 
 
 32. 
 "33. 
 
 Bed, 
 
 Bed. 
 
 A. 
 
 Polonaise Bed. 
 State Bed. 
 French Bed. 
 
 for a Recess. 
 
 and Wardrobe, B. 
 
 Ditto, A. 
 Bed Steps. 
 ^•84. Hall Seats for Recesses. 
 
 35. Hall Sofa and Hall Chairs. 
 
 36. Hall Chairs. 
 
 37. ParlorChairs, Fronts and Profiles. 
 x38. Ditto. 
 
 PLATE 
 
 39. ParlorChairs, 
 
 40. Ditto, A. 
 
 41. Library Seats. 
 
 42. — Fauteuil, with Desk, &c. 
 
 43. Chair, C. 
 
 44. Ditto, - - A. 
 
 45. Ditto, - - B. 
 
 46. Ditto, - - D. 
 
 47 . Library Fauteuil. 
 
 48. ■ in Profile. 
 
 49. 
 
 50. 
 
 •51. 
 
 52. 
 
 Footstools. 
 
 Ditto, B. 
 
 Tete-a-Tete Seats. 
 
 Window Seats. 
 53. Drawing Room X Seats. 
 54. Chairs in Profile. 
 
 55. Ditto. 
 
 56. Drawing Room Chairs, C. 
 
 57. and Backs. 
 
 58. State Chair * 
 
 59. Sofas. 
 
 60. Library Sofa. 
 
 61. Drawing Room Sofa. 
 
 62. Ditto. 
 
 63. Chaise Longue in Profile. 
 
 64. Ditto, - - - A. 
 
 65. Ditto, - - - B. 
 
 66. Ditto. 
 
 67. Ottoman for Gallery. 
 
 68. Music Room. 
 
 69. Pillar and Claw Table. 
 
 70. Harlequin Table. 
 
 7 1 . Gentleman's Dressing Table. 
 
 72. Dressing Tables. 
 
 73. Ladies Dressing Table. 
 74. and Glass. 
 
 75. Work Table. 
 
 76. Work Tables. 
 
 77. Ditto with four Legs. 
 
 78. Backgammon Work Table. 
 
 A 
 
"LATE 
 
 fLATE 
 
 79. Tea Poys, Quartetto Tables, 
 
 119- 
 
 and Canterburies. 
 
 120. 
 
 80. Screen, Writing, and Work 
 
 121. 
 
 Table. 
 
 122. 
 
 81. Dejune Tables in the Chinese 
 
 123. 
 
 Style. 
 
 124. 
 
 82. Dejune Table. 
 
 125. 
 
 83. Sofa Table, A. 
 
 126. 
 
 84. Ditto, - - B, 
 
 127. 
 
 85. Ditto. 
 
 128. 
 
 86. Library Table. 
 
 129. 
 
 87. Ditto, B. 
 
 130. 
 
 88. Ditto, C. 
 
 131. 
 
 89. Ditto, circular. 
 
 132. 
 
 go. Dumb Waiters. 
 
 133. 
 
 91. Legs for Sideboards. 
 
 134. 
 
 92. Sideboard, A. 
 
 135. 
 
 93. Ditto, - - B. 
 
 136. 
 
 94. Ditto, - - C. 
 
 137. 
 
 95. Ditto, - - D. 
 
 138. 
 
 96. Pedestals fcr Sideboards. 
 
 139. 
 
 97. Celeret and Wine Cistern, in 
 
 140. 
 
 Gothic Style. 
 
 141. 
 
 98. Celerets. 
 
 
 99. Bookcase, A. 
 
 J 4!_. 
 
 100. Cylinder Desk and Bookcase. 
 
 143. 
 
 10J. Secretaire Desk and Bookcase. 
 
 144. 
 
 102. Library Bookcase. 
 
 145. 
 
 103. Ditto. 
 
 146. 
 
 104. Dwarf Library Bookcase. 
 
 147- 
 
 .105. Ditto. 
 
 
 106. Bookcase Doors 
 
 148. 
 
 107. Ditto. 
 
 149. 
 
 108. Screens. 
 
 
 109. Ditto, B. 
 
 150. 
 
 110. Drawing Room Cheval Screens. 
 
 
 111. Tripod Stands for Tables, 
 
 151. 
 
 Screens, &c. 
 
 152. 
 
 112. Drawing Room Candelabri, B. 
 
 
 
 153. 
 
 114. Chiffoniers. 
 
 154. 
 
 115. Ditto and Pier Commode. 
 
 155. 
 
 J 16. Bookshelf and Brackets 
 
 156. 
 
 .117. Drawing Room Commodes. 
 
 157. 
 
 118. Commodes. 
 
 1 158. 
 
 Commode for Drawing Room. 
 
 Pier Table and Glass. 
 
 Console Tables. 
 
 Drawing Room Pier Table. 
 
 Escrotore. 
 
 Ditto on Legs. 
 
 Cheval Dressing Glass, B. 
 
 Ditto, _____ c. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 Bason Stands. 
 
 Night Tables. 
 
 Pot Cupboards. 
 
 Double Chest of Drawers. 
 
 Ladies' Wardrobe. 
 
 Wardrobe. 
 
 Dwarf Wardrobe. 
 
 Mirror, A. 
 
 Ditto, B. 
 
 Chandelier. 
 
 Girandole. 
 
 Candelabra and Pedestal. 
 
 Chandelier. 
 
 Girandole Vases and Candle- 
 sticks. 
 
 Pedestals for Statues, &c. 
 
 Jardinieres. 
 
 Stand for Flowers, &c. 
 
 Decoration, A. 
 
 Ditto, - B. 
 
 Chimney Glass and Decorations, 
 C. 
 
 Ditto, D. 
 
 Decoration for a Drawing Room 
 in the Chinese Style. 
 
 Decoration for a Drawing Room 
 in the Gothic Style. 
 
 Boudoir with Ottomans. 
 
 State Drawing Room, shewing 
 its Decoration and Furniture. 
 
 Section and Plan of the same. 
 
 1 Moldings- for Frames. 
 
 I Moldings for Cabinet Work. 
 Fretts. 
 
 
Xt 
 
 PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 
 
 The following Designs are arranged under the two principal features 
 of the business, viz. the Upholsterer's Work, and the Cabinet-maker's 
 Work ; and, previously to a description of each Plate, I shall offer a 
 few remarks, which will, I trust, be considered both just and useful. 
 The young artist, I must suppose, has attained sufficient knowledge of 
 perspective and drawing to sketch any subject his eye may see, his 
 fancy invent, or his employer suggest ; for, without an early attention 
 to the imitative art, his hopes of attaining to eminence in his profession 
 must be considerably abated. 
 
 I shall consider the Upholder's Work under the general title of 
 
 DRAPERY. 
 
 In no part of his profession is the English Upholsterer more deficient 
 than in the arrangement and in the forms of his Draperies, which arises 
 entirely from the want of an attentive observation of what is easy and 
 elegant : from this deficiency of knowledge, we often see silk and 
 calico tormented into every other form than agreeable, natural Drapery. 
 The mystery and difficulty of cutting-out would vanish, did the artist 
 but apply his mind with resolution to conquer his established prejudices: 
 to the workman very little knowledge is requisite beyond cutting-out 
 what is usually called a festoon, the arrangement, whether for continued 
 Drapery or for a single window, forming the principal difficulty ; one 
 festoon, well and properly cut out, will answer for the whole : this 
 difficulty once overcome, a little ingenuity will readily accomplish 
 whatever else may be required. 
 
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 I must here observe, for the guidance of the workman, the utter im- 
 possibility of forming tasteful and well-flowing Draperies of the stiffened 
 materials at present in general use ; it is nearly as practicable to throw 
 buckram into easy and graceful Drapery, as the modern high-glazed 
 stiffened calicoes : the stiffening must be dispensed with, or the utmost 
 effort of the artist will be in vain. The pleasantest materials are silk 
 and fine cloth. 
 
 It may be proper here to mention the various sorts of materials used 
 for the different descriptions of Curtains : for Eating Rooms and 
 Libraries, a material of more substance is requisite than for Rooms of 
 a lighter cast ; and for such purposes superfine cloth, or cassimere, will 
 ever be the best ; the colours as fancy or taste may direct ; yet scarlet 
 and crimson will ever hold the preference : undressed morine may be 
 substituted for cloth, although it does not suit for every description of 
 drapery : calico when used should be of one colour, in shades of moroon 
 or scarlet. 
 
 In elegant Drawing Rooms, plain coloured satin or figured damask 
 assumes the first rank, as well for use as for richness : lustring and 
 tabarays the next ; the latter, however, makes but indifferent drapery. 
 Calico, the next in choice, and of so great variety of patterns, should, 
 where good drapery is required, be glazed mellow : the small chintz 
 patterns hold a preference in point of effect, especially for draperies. 
 Salisbury flannel has been much used, but is of too slight a quality for 
 curtains of large dimensions. 
 
 The arrangement of Drapery for the different descriptions of apart- 
 ments will ever be subject to the control of fancy ; Dining Rooms and 
 Libraries being simple and plain in their decorations, require less va- 
 riety in the drapery for their curtains. What is commonly called Roman 
 
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 drapery, and which in fact is taken from the Roman standards, may ge- 
 nerally be adopted : a tasteful variety of forms lies entirely in the skill of 
 the artist employed. For specimens I refer to Plates 2, 5, 6, 8, lo, 
 11, 12, 13. 
 
 For the decoration of elegant Drawing Rooms, the continuation of 
 festoons, called continued drapery, holds a preference, the arrangement 
 of which may be seen in Plates 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 153. But as the de- 
 corations of almost every room will admit of change in form, and the 
 great difference of windows may also require an essentially different 
 arrangement, the artist will have ample opportunity of displaying his 
 taste and fancy according as circumstances may direct, by a proper 
 choice and combination of the various patterns here laid before him. 
 
 of cabinet-maker's work. 
 
 I have much pleasure in declaring, that in the operative parts of 
 cabinet-work, the workmen of England excel those of every other 
 country in the accuracy and precision of the joiner's part, which is 
 truly admirable. The artisans of France, attentive more to exterior 
 effect, have attended principally to forms, and what relates to outline ; 
 and herein they certainly have attained pre-eminence. 
 
 It is to be regretted, that our higher class of artists do not give 
 their attention, in some degree, to providing our manufacturers with 
 patterns of tasteful outline for this species of furniture: their previous 
 course of study, aided by a reference to books of antiquities, would en- 
 able them to supply Designs, which in execution would produce a 
 pleasing effect, and merit the just praises of true taste. 
 
 In France the first-rate painters do not think themselves degraded 
 by providing Designs for the Cabinet-maker or for the Upholsterer. 
 
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 Why should they ? Why should not our moveable furniture possess 
 elegance, and give as much pleasure to the eye, as pictures or any other 
 embellishment appropriated to the same apartment ? 
 
 I have great pleasure in declaring, that very extensive and liberal 
 encouragement has of late been given by our Nobility and Gentry to 
 various artists employed in manufacturing cabinet-work, the good 
 effects of which will, I doubt not, soon be felt in bringing forward 
 a supply of able workmen, and in promoting an increase of skill and 
 taste in their several departments : for as the beauty of the Antique 
 consists in the purity of design, and what was pleasing centuries ago 
 continues to be equally so now; so I do not despair of seeing a style 
 of Furniture produced in this country, which shall be equally agreeable 
 centuries hence. 
 
 The following practical observations on the various woods employed in 
 cabinet-work may be useful. Mahogany, when used in houses of eon- 
 sequence, should be confined to the Parlor and Bedchamber Floors ; 
 in furniture for these apartments the less inlay of other woods, the more 
 chaste will be the style of work : if the wood be of a fine, compact, and 
 bright quality, the ornaments may be carved clean in the mahogany : 
 where it may be requisite to make out pannelling by an inlay of lines, 
 let those lines be of brass or ebony. In Drawing Rooms, Boudoirs, 
 Anti Rooms, or other dressed apartments, East and West India satin- 
 woods, rose-wood, tulip-wood, and the other varieties of woods 
 brought from the East, may be used: with satin and light-coloured 
 woods the decorations may be of ebony or rose- wood : with rose-wood 
 let the decorations be or molu, and the inlay of brass : bronzed metal, 
 though sometimes used* with satin-wood, has a cold and poor effect ; 
 it suits better on gilt work, and will answer well enough on mahogany. 
 
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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES. 
 
 PLATE 1. — Drawing Room Window Cornices. 
 
 J. hese Draperies for Drawing Rooms should be made of satin or 
 lustring, with under- curtains of muslin or superfine cassimere ; the 
 fringe, silk, &c. of one colour, in contrast with the drapery. The 
 Cornices gold, without any mixture of bronze. Such Curtains should 
 never be less than six feet in breadth, where it will admit. 
 
 PLATE 2. — Window Cornices and Drapery. 
 
 These Draperies are also intended for Drawing Rooms, and should 
 be made of silk, to have a rich effect ; or else of fine cassimere ; and 
 in both cases bordered with black velvet. The fringe on the second 
 Design may be formed of two colours, of which there should be two 
 shades in each, provided the contrast is not too strong. The Cornices 
 would look best in entire gold, matt and burnish ; or if variety is re- 
 quired, the ornaments may be matt gold, and all the ground imitation 
 of bronze. 
 
 PLATE 3. — Cornices and Drapery in the Chinese Style. 
 The Designs in this Plate are calculated for apartments decorated 
 wholly in the Chinese style, where grandeur and show are necessary; 
 in which case the Curtains should be made wholly of silk or velvet, and 
 in either case embroidered with yellows to imitate gold. The Cornices 
 partly japanned, the rest in burnished or matt gold. These Curtains 
 would have a very good effect in calico for secondary rooms : the 
 grounds a dark green, and the ornaments of deep yellow. 
 

 PLATE 4. — Window Cornices, A. 
 
 The Cornices on this Plate are according to the Etruscan style, and 
 are copied and coloured from antique fragments. This class of Cornice 
 will answer for secondary rooms, where magnificence is not so much 
 required ; in which case the draperies may be of plain coloured calicoes, 
 or small chintz patterns, and the fringe of worsted; the Cornices 
 partly gilt and partly japanned in suitable colours. 
 
 PLATE 5. — Window Curtain, D. 
 
 This Design, after the Egyptian style, is proper for Dining Rooms 
 or Libraries, and should be made of superfine cloth, scarlet or crimson; 
 or, where expense is an object, undressed morine of a fine quality, will 
 form a good substitute. This Cornice is intended to be part japanned ; 
 the heads carved and in bronze : the fringe should be of two colours 
 opposed to the cloth, and will answer extremely well in worsted ; the 
 pattern on the drapery is drawn by hand. 
 
 PLATE 6.— Window Curtain, B. 
 
 This Curtain is proper for Morning Rooms or Boudoirs : the Dra- 
 peries and Curtains may be of plain calicoes, with borders cut out in 
 velvet, brown and green, and neatly sewed on ; the fringe of worsted 
 finely worked. A muslin Curtain is fixed on one side, to be drawn 
 across the window during the time the sun shines or the light being too 
 strong. The architraves of such rooms should be ornamented with 
 carved work or painted, and crowned with an ornament instead of a 
 Cornice. 
 
 PLATE 7.— Window Curtain, C. 
 
 Is calculated for Breakfast Parlors, and may be made of cloth or 
 morine ; the fringe of worsted ; the Cornice and cloak-pins of carved 
 work, in imitation of bronze. 
 
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PLATE 8. — Window Curtain, A. 
 
 This Curtain is appropriate only to rooms of consequence, and 
 should be wholly of satin or damask, with an under Curtain of muslin, 
 and a worked ornamental raised border bound with silk : the satin 
 Curtains and Drapery to be bordered with velvet, cut out and neatly 
 sewed on ; the Cornice finished in bronze and gold. 
 
 PLATE 9. — Military Window Curtain, 
 
 Is appropriated to Dining Rooms or Libraries : the material may be 
 of fine scarlet cloth, or morine undressed ; the ornament on the vallens 
 to be printed in black, and a similar border on the Curtains ; the 
 spears supporting the whole to be of mahogany and bronze, or gilt and 
 bronzed. 
 
 PLATE 10. — Continued Drapery and Window Curtains, A. 
 Continued Drapery is suitable to Venetian, Bow, or large Windows; 
 the materials may be of plain -coloured or printed calicoes ; the Curtains 
 to draw on rods after the French manner, and the Draperies suspended 
 from an ornamental Cornice, which may be executed in gold and bronze; 
 the fringe in silk and cotton. In Bow Windows the centre Curtains 
 may hang down, as shewn in the Drawing. 
 
 PLATE 11. — Continued Drapery and Window Curtains, B. 
 
 This Design is for a Continuation of Drapery over Windows and 
 Piers in one line, which imparts a grand and magnificent effect to a 
 room : this may be made of superfine cloth, or undressed morine, and 
 will answer either for Dining Room or Drawing Room. 
 
 PLATE 12. — Continued Drapery, 
 
 Suitable for a Drawing Room having two windows, and should be 
 of silk, with rich fringe of the same ; a muslin Curtain to each window, 
 
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 blinds of the same colour as the principal Draperies, to drop behind the 
 muslin, and the Drapery to remain as fixed. The enrichments for the 
 Cornice may be carved and gilt, or bronzed, &c. ; the Drawing shews 
 the Pier Glass and Table, behind which is a Glass to the floor. 
 
 PLATE 13. — Continued Drapery, 
 
 Proper for a Bow, having three windows, and may be finished 
 agreeably to the foregoing description : the Drapery to remain fixed, 
 and the Curtains to draw on rods as usual. 
 
 PLATE 14.— Bed Pillars, 
 Shews four Designs, which may be of mahogany carved, or satin- 
 wood, with ornaments carved and bronzed, or japanned. Where the 
 rails are carved, the bases must be tacked to slips fixed under them. 
 
 PLATE 15. — Bed Pillars, with Foot-board, A. 
 
 Design for Bed Pillars with Foot-board, and shews the arrangement 
 for fixing the bases, as described before. 
 
 PLATE 1 6. — Bed Pillars, ivith Foot-board, B. 
 
 Agreeable to the preceding Plate. The Pillars are supposed of satin- 
 wood, inlaid with ebony. 
 
 PLATE 17.— Bed Cornices, B. 
 Cornices and Draperies for elegant Beds, which may be of silk or 
 calico, the colours at pleasure. 
 
 PLATE 18. — Bed Cornices in the Gothic Style. 
 
 Two Designs in the Gothic taste, and adapted particularly to houses 
 where this style prevails in the interior. Such work should be wholly 
 in gold, or in English oak, the ornaments and moldings gilt : in state 
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 Design for a Cradle Bed, in the Gothic style, suitable to many man- 
 sions in this country : should be of mahogany or oak, the enrichments 
 carved, either plain or gilt ; the furniture cotton or silk. This con- 
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 PLATE 20.— Tent Bed. 
 
 The furniture calico, and trimmed with worsted or cotton fringe at 
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 PLATE 21.— Field Bed. 
 
 The furniture of plain or printed calicoes ; the border cut out in 
 black Manchester velvet, and sewed on. 
 
 PLATE 22.— Design for a Bed, B. 
 
 This Design in the rustic style is suitable to a cottage or country re- 
 sidence ; the furniture as usual ; the pillars and rails may be selected 
 from rough materials, cleaned and varnished. 
 
 PLATE 23.— Military Officers Bed. 
 
 Design for a French Bed standing under a canopy, partaking of the 
 military character, and raised on a platform ; the furniture may be of 
 yellow calico, lined with blue, the vallens blue, lined with yellow, the 
 war trophies carved and bronzed. 
 
 PLATE 24. — Design for a Dome Bed. 
 The furniture may be of calico or silk, the exterior green, and lin- 
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 gathered in large plaits. 
 
 PLATE 25 — Design for a Bed, A. 
 
 A Design for a Dome Bed, with straight cornices and plain antique 
 vallens ; the curtains to be looped up on the outside of the posts ; the 
 head board is stuffed and covered, to answer the exterior, in plaits si- 
 milar to those in the head cloth : the furniture may be of crimson, lined 
 with yellow, the bases and counterpane also yellow. 
 
 PLATE 26.— Design for a Bed. 
 
 Design for a State Bed : the tester is coved inside, and supported 
 by mahogany pillars and figures carved and gilt ; the bedstead is after 
 the French style ; the furniture should be of lilac silk, embroidered 
 border and lining, with rose-coloured Persian ; the counterpane the 
 same ; the outside of the cove may be japanned or velvet painted ; the 
 ornaments and cornice gilt and bronzed. 
 
 PLATE 27 .-—Polonaise Bed. 
 The dome of this Design is circular, with an octangular tester ; the 
 inside divided into compartments with painted ornaments, or quilled 
 with silk or cotton ; the curtains of rich silk, yellow, and lined with 
 blue, or crimson velvet, lined with garter blue silk ; the fringe and tas- 
 sels of gold. The exterior of the dome, the vallens, and coverlid, to 
 be of the same colour and material as the lining : the carved work should 
 be gilt and bronzed. This style of Bed is calculated only for apartments 
 of taste and elegance. 
 
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 ornaments and forms than can possibly be obtained in any other 
 style : and as many of the mansions of our Nobility and Gentry are at 
 this time finished in a similar taste, this Design may not be deemed un- 
 acceptable. 
 
 It is proper this description of furniture should be elevated above the 
 floor, on a platform of two or three steps, which should be covered 
 with carpet or cloth of an even single colour, adapted as circumstances 
 may require, to accord well with the bedstead ; which, if executed in 
 gold, will admit of some of the heavier colours, and if in oak, the co- 
 lours must be of a lighter cast. 
 
 Beds of this kind, from their expense, are confined to few individuals, 
 but are highly in character in the mansions of our Nobility or Gentry, 
 opulent through a long line of ancestry : the present Design is therefore 
 well calculated to exhibit the different inter- marriages on the shields 
 distributed throughout the exterior of the bedstead. The pillars which 
 support the canopy are intended to be of open work the whole height 
 above the pedestal, inclosing a wrought iron pillar adorned with orna- 
 ments in character. The curtains should be made of Genoa velvet, 
 satin, or superfine cloth, a suitable border being worked round them 
 on an embroidery of gold ; the ground also of the tester must be of 
 the same material and colour as the curtains, on which the carved work is 
 laid, producing a splendid appearance. This species of Bed does not 
 admit of drapery ; the rods, &c. supporting the curtains are concealed 
 between the outside and inside cornices. Within the canopy is placed 
 the bedstead, suitably carved and decorated ; the bedding consists wholly 
 of mattresses, is covered with a velvet counterpane, pannelled out, and 
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 The various ornaments of this Design should be well studied previ- 
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 PLATE 29.— French Bed. 
 The tester with the dome is attached to the wall, and supports the 
 curtains, which draw round the bedstead, which is in the form of a 
 sofa. The furniture may be of rich materials as before described, such 
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 PLATE 30.— -French Bed for a Recess. 
 In the daytime, this Bedstead, being low, for sitting on, is drawn 
 into the room, and used as a couch ; the frame-work is usually of ma- 
 hogany, with the ornaments bronzed ; the Recess is lined with calico, 
 in antique drapery. 
 
 PLATES 31 and 32.— French Bed and Wardrobe. 
 
 This Design is suitable only to apartments of the greatest elegance ; 
 the Bedstead stands in a recess, which is lined with silk or calico, in 
 large flutes, with antique drapery as a vallens ; the ceiling coved and 
 painted in colours to answer the linings; the coverlid, of which two De- 
 signs are shewn, may be of figured muslin, laid on a coloured silk; the 
 frame-work of the Bedstead mahogany, with bronzed ornaments, stand- 
 ing on a platform ; the curtains, which draw before the Bed, are of 
 rose-coloured silk with black velvet border on a yellow ground ; the 
 outside vallens straw colour, and trimmed with deep silk French fringe ; 
 the recesses on each side the Bed are fitted up as Wardrobes ; the upper 
 pannels of the doors are looking-glass, the whole decorated with carved 
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 PLATE 34. — Hall Seats for Recesses. 
 
 These are made of beech-wood, carved and japanned to imitate 
 marble and bronze. 
 
 PLATES 35 and 36. — Hall Chairs and Sofa. 
 
 Mahogany will ever be a wood in general use for Chairs dedi- 
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 solid; but where the pattern is Gothic, and the backs partly cut 
 through, oak is used with great propriety; the arms on the shield 
 being emblazoned in proper colours : these kind of frames may also be 
 executed in beech- wood and japanned stone colour, the moldings, &c. 
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 PLATES 37 and 38. — Parlor Chairs. 
 
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 priate, and should be made of brown oak varnished ; the seats may be 
 stuffed or have loose cushions, and 'in both cases covered with leather, 
 the colour of no great consequence : mahogany is not to be recom- 
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 PLATES 39 and 40 A.— Parlor Chairs. 
 
 The frames of these Chairs should be made of bright Spanish maho- 
 gany, the ornaments partly carved, and partly inlaid with ebony; or 
 the ornaments may be executed with good effect, if inlaid with brass ; 
 the seats French stuffed, and finished in red morocco leather, on the 
 border of which may be printed a Grecian ornament in black ; over the 
 heads of the tacks may be put a molding of brass or of dyed wood in 
 imitation of ebony. 
 
 PLATE 41. — Library Seats. 
 
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 These Chairs are used chiefly in Libraries of some extent, seeing 
 they require to be made of large dimensions to obtain a good effect of 
 outline as well as ease, when used for study ; there cannot be a better 
 material than mahogany for chairs, where bronze is likewise intro- 
 duced, this colour harmonizing very w r ell with such wood; the seats 
 may be covered with leather, either stuffed to the frame, or used with 
 cushions. The Desk attached to these Chairs is formed two ways: it 
 may be fixed to the side of the elbow, and capable of elevation by 
 means of a rack and spring ; at the same time, acting on a centre, it can 
 be used in all directions : another mode is, the Desk is fixed on the top 
 of the stump or elbow of the Chair, and, although incapable of elevation, 
 is equally useful, as acting on a centre similar to the former. This article 
 should always be accompanied with a Stool as a rest for the feet, when 
 used for reading or writing. 
 
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 The frame-work of these Chairs is usually made of mahogany or 
 any elegant wood, the carved ornaments gilt or bronzed, the seats and 
 backs of morocco leather or velvet, according to fancy. 
 
 PLATE 47. — Library Fauteuil. 
 
 This article, which is of French invention, and adapted only to an 
 elegantly furnished Library, is made very deep (two feet six inches) in 
 the seat ; a stand for a lamp and another for books usually accompany 
 this piece of furniture, of which one should be on each side the fire- 
 place ; the whole stands on a platform in imitation of marble ; the 
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 PLATES 4Q and 50 B.— Footstools. 
 Twelve Designs for Footstools, suitable to Parlors, Drawing Rooms, 
 &c. ; the frames may be of mahogany, gold, or bronze, and covered with 
 leather, velvet, or printed cloth, suitable to the apartment. 
 
 PLATE 5 \.— Tete-a-tete Seats. 
 
 An article adapted to elegant apartments ; the frames of rich wood, 
 or gold and bronze ; the covering of fine cloth, velvet, or calico; in di- 
 mension, it is calculated for two persons to sit on. 
 
 PLATE 52. — Window Seats. 
 
 . PLATE 53. — Drawing Room X Seats. 
 
 The description to Plate 5 1 will answer to these Plates. The three 
 last articles are intended as ornamental and extra Seats in elegant Drawing 
 Rooms. -See the Design and Description of a Drawing Room at the end. 
 
 PLATES 54, 55, 56 C, 57, and 58.— Drawing Room Chairs. 
 
 Chairs for Drawing Rooms admit of great taste and elegance as 
 well as variety, and are constructed of rich and costly materials in ac- 
 cordance with the room ; the frames of satin-wood, burnished gold, 
 with parts' of bronze, or otherways highly enriched ; the seats covered 
 with silks, painted satins, painted velvets, superfine cloth, or chintz. 
 The Designs on Plate 54 in the Gothic style, as well as several of the 
 others, are proposed to be elegantly carved and finished in matt and bur- 
 nished gold. 
 
 PLATES 5Q and 60.— Sofas. 
 Three Designs for Sofas, intended for Libraries, the frames of which 
 should be of mahogany ; or they may in part be bronzed; the covering 
 of leather or cloth, with ornamental borders printed. 
 
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 Two Designs calculated for first-rate houses, the frames of which 
 should be all gold, or gold with bronzed ornaments ; the covering of 
 satin, silk, or velvet : the latter will admit of ornamented borders, 
 painted in water-colours, and produce a very superb effect. 
 
 PLATES 63, 64 A, 65 B, and 66.— Chaise Longue. 
 
 Four Designs for Chaises Longue, an article admissible into almost 
 every room. The present Designs are intended for Drawing Rooms, or 
 Boudoirs, in which case the frames may be of satin-wood, inlaid with 
 other woods, and the ornaments of bronze, as Plates A and B; or in 
 gold, with bronzed ornaments, as Plates 63 and 64. For covering, silks 
 or cloth may be used ; and in more moderately furnished apartments 
 calico may suffice, provided the pattern be small arid of the chintz 
 kind. The same Designs will answer extremely well for Libraries, 
 Parlors, or Dressing Rooms, executed in mahogany, and divested of the 
 ornaments. 
 
 PLATES 67 and 68.— Ottomans. 
 
 Two Designs of Ottomans for Galleries, which should be placed on 
 the chimney side of the room, with similar seats on the opposite side : 
 the frames may be of mahogany, with ornaments bronzed or carved 
 clean in the wood ; or they may be japanned to imitate bronze, and the 
 ornaments in gold. Where show is designed, the covering should be 
 of superfine cloth, or chintz-pattern calico ; the fringe worked in fine 
 worsteds. Ottomans are particularly useful in Picture Galleries, their 
 projection from the wall preventing the pictures being fingered, which 
 is too often practised. 
 
 PLATE 69.— Dining Table. 
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 than those of the old form, but possess advantages over them, where 
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 PLATE 70.— Harlequin Table. 
 
 This elegant article, an appendage to the Ladies' Boudoir, is so con- 
 trived, as to form a Writing, Work, Drawing, and Breakfast Table, 
 as occasion may require. 
 
 For the first purpose, a small Escrutoire, concealed in the body of 
 the Table, rises by springs, a writing flap rising also in front ; the 
 drawer on the right hand of the Table containing the ink, pens, &c. 
 The centre drawer is fitted up with the necessary apparatus to the Work 
 Table. The left hand drawer is fitted up with the colours and other 
 useful articles for Drawing. The two ends of the Table, forming flaps, 
 are supported by lopers thrown forward by springs, w T hen the flaps are 
 raised up parallel with the top, making this article serve as the Sofa 
 or Breakfast Table. The lopers are secured back by spring catches 
 when the leaves are required to be put down. — This piece of decorative 
 furniture should be made of rose-wood, the ornaments of real ormolu, 
 for the sake of durability; or it may be made of mahogany, and the 
 ornaments of bronzed metal : the top should be covered with morocco 
 leather, divided into pannels by gilt ornamental bordering, which will 
 serve to conceal the joints made necessary in the top by the rising 
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 PLATE 71. — Gentleman s Dressing Table. 
 
 This article should be made wholly of mahogany, without any inlaid 
 or carved ornaments. The cupboard in the centre part is meant for 
 boots and shoes ; above are two drawers for linen, as are also the 
 drawers in the left wing ; the upper drawer in the right wing being 
 fitted up with a variety of dressing apparatus. 
 
 PLATE 72.— Dressing Tables. 
 
 These Tables are intended for the piers in Ladies' Dressing Rooms, 
 and contain five drawers in each, without any dressing apparatus ; the 
 ornaments are formed by an inlay of ebony, or carved in the mahogany; 
 casters are concealed in the feet : the drawers, without handles, are 
 locked with spring catches, and released by springs behind. 
 
 PLATE 73. — Ladies' Dressing Table. 
 
 This piece of furniture, and the Design following, are adapted only 
 for decorated apartments, and to accompany State Bedchambers. The 
 present Design, if made of mahogany, may have all the ornamental 
 parts carved in lime-tree and bronzed, or carved in the mahogany with 
 the rest of the Table : should rose- wood be preferred, the whole 
 of the ornaments may be finished in gold. The centre of the top, 
 as likewise the folding tops on the two sides, should be covered with 
 leather, purple or red, with a border of gold: the standards of the 
 Glass screw in and out at pleasure by a nut underneath, in which case 
 the Table will answer as a Sofa Writing Table, the drawer in the centre 
 part being fitted up with writing apparatus. 
 
 PLATE 74. — Ladies Dressing Table and Glass. 
 This Design may be manufactured in mahogany or oak, the 
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 PLATES 75, 76, and 77.— Work Tables. 
 These articles of furniture should be made to imitate bronze and 
 gold, with parts of antique marble. In Plate 75 the top should be 
 covered with morocco leather, under which is a drawer for writing 
 apparatus; casters are concealed under the plinths. The Work-bag in 
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 fringe. In Plate 77 the tops may be executed in scagliola, the edges 
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 PLATE 78. — Backgammon Work Table. 
 
 This ornamental piece of furniture will admit of every variety in 
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 be gold, and the ornaments in bronze. The inside must be covered 
 entirely with leather, to prevent noise, when used for play. The ends 
 contain concealed drawers, which hold the chess and backgammon men. 
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 Tea Poys and Quartetto Tables are used in Drawing Rooms, &c. to 
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 The Canterburies are intended for holding such music-books as are in 
 constant use. All these articles may be manufactured in mahogany, 
 rose- wood, or bronzed and gilt, to suit the different rooms they may be 
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 The Design in this Plate would answer best in gold and bronze ; the 
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 for this Table ; but mahogany should be avoided, as least proper for 
 elegant Drawing Rooms. Wainscot may be used, provided the whole 
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 These Tables, adapted for a breakfast set of superb china, are used 
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 of the richest decoration. Those in the Chinese taste may be finished 
 in green and gold, red and gold, or blue and gold, agreeable to the 
 style of china placed on them. If used in rooms slightly decorated, 
 they are made to imitate bamboo, or japanned black and gold. In 
 Plate 82 the Table should be wholly made to imitate or molu, the top 
 and plinth being of scagliola, to imitate red porphyry : the border round 
 the top of or molu. 
 
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 or satin woods, and may be in part carved and bronzed, or gilt ; the 
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 or chess board. Plate 85 will not answer so well in mahogany as other 
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 These Designs, though Gothic, will admit of being made of ma- 
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 this style; they would look extremely well in wainscot, darkened to imi- 
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 PLATE 91. — Legs for Sideboards. 
 
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 PLATES 92 A, 93 B, 94 C, and 95 D. — Sideboards. 
 These articles of so general use can scarcely be made of any other 
 wood than mahogany, in which case the ornaments in bronze will 
 have a good effect : Sideboards may each contain three drawers, for 
 holding napkins, &c. One of the pedestals in Plates 92 A, 93 B, and 
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 by an iron heater : the other pedestal should have a tray capable of holding 
 six or eight bottles, which turns on a centre ; also a drawer under, con- 
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 lights are of plaster bronzed. Plate 94 C, being without pedestals, has 
 a wine cooler under it, which must be lined with lead. 
 
 PLATE 9O. — Pedestals for Sideboards. 
 The above remarks apply to these Designs. 
 
 PLATE 97. — Celerets and Wine Cistern, in the Gothic Style. 
 
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 PLATE 09 A. — Bookcase. 
 
 This Bookcase would look well executed in rose- wood, the therm 
 figures and pedestal carved and gilt in matt gold ; or, if manufactured 
 in satin-wood, the figures and pedestals being bronze would have an 
 equally good effect : if mahogany is preferred, the less contrast that is 
 used the better ; the whole being kept in one wood produces a pleasing 
 and solid appearance. 
 
 PLATES loo and 101. — Bookcases in the Gothic Style. 
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 PLATE 102. — Library Bookcase. 
 
 This Design is calculated for an extensive Library, where it can be 
 carried round three sides of the room, and would answer best made 
 of mahogany, in which case the ornaments may be of ebony inlaid ; 
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 PLATE 1 03 . — Library Bookcase, with Wings and Secretaire. 
 This piece of furniture, after the Gothic taste, may be manufactured, 
 with good effect, in mahogany or oak. Under the Secretaire drawer is 
 a wardrobe concealed with folding doors. The two Wings may contain 
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 Literature and the fine arts going hand in hand, this kind of Bookcase 
 is well adapted to the connoisseur in sculpture and painting ; neverthe- 
 less, such Bookcases can only be applied with propriety in rooms on a large 
 scale, and in Libraries of considerable extent. From the lowness 
 adopted in the present Design, the walls remain free for paintings ; at 
 the same time, figures or antique sculpture, placed this height before the 
 spectator, will afford the most pleasing appearance in galleries of any 
 extent. This sort of Bookcase, finished on each side alike, and placed 
 one at each end, centrically, in the room or gallery, with a Library 
 Table between them, produces a grand and pleasing effect. In this 
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 PLATE 105. — Dwarf Bookcase. 
 
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 moderate in design, can be more generally adopted, especially where 
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 PLATES 106 and 107. — Bookcase Doors. 
 The first Plate contains three styles of design, Chinese, Egyptian, 
 and Gothic; the second Plate, wholly fancy. Each of these Designs may 
 be executed in woods or metal, and may be used with or without 
 glass in the pannels, at pleasure ; the doors having curtains of silk, to 
 slide on rods, as occasion may require. 
 
 PLATES 108 and 109 B. — Screens. 
 
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 PLATE no. — Drawing Room Cheval Screens. 
 
 The Designs in this Plate are appropriate for Drawing Rooms, to be 
 executed wholly in carved work and gilt, and varied with bronzed orna- 
 ments on a gold ground. If manufactured of mahogany, the frames 
 may have the ornaments made out in an inlay of ebony, the carved 
 parts in bronze, real, or carved in wood ; the mounts of satin, lustring, 
 or velvet, as occasion may require. This kind of Screen answers ex- 
 tremely well for Dining Rooms, made plain of mahogany, with frames 
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 PLATE ill.— Tripod Stands, &c. 
 These stands may be carved in lime-tree, and bronzed to imitate 
 metal, or wholly gilt, agreeable to the rest of the furniture of the 
 apartment they may be intended for. In addition to their use, as stands 
 for Screens and Tables, they are calculated to form elegant supports for 
 music-desks. 
 
 PLATE \\2.—Candelabri, B. 
 
 This article of furniture, the Designs of which have been taken 
 from antique examples in the King of Naples' collection, are used as 
 stands for Candlesticks and Lamps, and are serviceable to stand at the 
 corners of Card Tables, or on each side of Couches, or in the angles 
 of rooms, staircases, &c. When used for lamps, they answer for 
 staircases or halls of extent ; in galleries, whether for antiques or 
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 PLATE 113 —Candelabri, A. 
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 be executed, where elegance is required, wholly in gold, or partly in 
 imitation of bronzed metal. 
 
 PLATES 114 and n 5. —Chiffoniers. 
 
 In almost every apartment of a house these articles will be found 
 useful, whether decorated or plain ; their use is chiefly for such books 
 as are in constant use, or not of sufficient consequence for the library : 
 on the same account they become extremely serviceable in libraries, for 
 the reception of books taken for present reading. The most simple are 
 manufactured in plain mahogany, or japanned in imitation of various 
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 PLATE 116.— Boole-shelf and Brackets. 
 
 Over a Console Table, in the pier between windows, this kind of 
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 tween the brackets would have a good effect. In point of finishing, 
 what has been said of Chiffoniers will answer equally to these. The 
 Brackets accompanying this Design are intended to support lights, 
 clocks, &c. to be executed in gold, or bronze and gold, as may suit best 
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 PLATE 117. — Drawing Room Commodes. 
 
 These Commodes are intended for those Drawing Rooms used 
 also as living rooms, and have therefore doors to screen or secure such 
 articles as may be placed in them : they may be made of satin-wood, 
 rose-wood, or in gold on a white ground, or japanned in imitation of 
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 PLATE 118. — Commodes. 
 
 These two Designs are intended for Ladies' Dressing Rooms, where 
 a superior style of elegance in furnishing is adopted; they may be made 
 of the finest rose- wood or mahogany ; in the first the whole of the 
 decoration should be executed to imitate or molu ; in the latter, a mix- 
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 PLATE 1 1 Q. — Commode for Drawing Room. 
 This article may be executed in rose-wood or mahogany, and should 
 be placed in an apartment of consequence ; its situation is opposite the 
 chimney, which should also correspond to it in form ; the glasses over 
 each producing a most charming effect. This piece of furniture would 
 make an elegant case for an organ, to be placed at the extremity of a 
 long apartment or gallery. 
 
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 What has been said in explanation of the foregoing Design in re- 
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 it partaking of the same design ; it may be executed in rose- wood or 
 mahogany, and decorated with gold or bronze after the manner we have 
 before recommended, and as shewn on the Plate. The Glasses over 
 these Designs, as well as the Chimney Glass, should not have any orna- 
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 PLATE 121.— Console Tables. 
 
 PLATE 122. — Drawing Room Pier Table. 
 
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 in the execution and proper conception of the parts, ornamented with 
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 material is otherways introduced in the apartments, in which case 
 the decorative parts may be finished in imitation of bronzed metal ; a 
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 with looking-glass above the book-shelf. 
 
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 This piece of furniture belongs chiefly to the Ladies' dressing room, 
 or boudoir, in houses of consequence, and may be manufactured in 
 satin-wood, rose-wood, mahogany, or India woods ; the decorative 
 parts executed in or molu or bronzed metal, in opposition to the other 
 materials used ; the lower part in these articles, when inclosed as 
 Plate 123, is fitted up with drawers to contain coins or other articles of 
 curiosity ; the front of the upper part is hinged at the base, and falls 
 forward, making when down a desk for writing, &c. ; the inside is 
 fitted up in part with small drawers, and in part with pigeon-holes ; the 
 frieze in each of these Designs forms a drawer, opened and secured by 
 a private spring and catch. In Plate 124 the plinth at bottom, as also 
 the block on the top, are supposed to be of black marble. 
 
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 The three Designs in these Plates are supposed to be manufactured 
 of mahogany, although frequently made of satin or rose wood, and 
 not unfrequently executed to imitate bronzed metal, the ornaments 
 being then gilt ; they should be made to move on casters concealed in 
 the feet or plinths ; the ornaments on the standards and round the frame 
 of the Glass in Plate 127 are meant as an inlay of ebony or brass. 
 
 PLATE 128. — Bason Stands. 
 
 The three Designs on this Plate admit of the same variety in woods 
 tor their manufacture as the three preceding Plates ; the first and third 
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 the ornamental frieze : supposing this to be stationary in the room 
 where placed, the bason may be supplied with water by a pipe carried 
 up the centre of the stem, and the water again carried off by a pipe 
 with a plug at the bottom of the bason, concealed also in the stem. 
 
 PLATE 129.— Night Tables. 
 
 In both these Designs the bottom part draws out as is usual in such 
 pieces of furniture ; in the first figure the pannel under the top is hinged 
 at bottom, and falls down as in escrotoires, being released by a spring 
 catch behind the lion's head ; the doors in the second Design are 
 hinged, and open as usual ; the top and shelves are of marble, a plate 
 of glass being placed at the back of the upper one ; the chimeras sup- 
 porting the middle shelf may be executed in wood, bronzed or gilt, or 
 made in metal. 
 
 PLATE 130— Pot Cupboards. 
 
 These ornamental articles are calculated for dressed Chambers, to 
 be placed on each side the bed; the upper shelf serving for china, 
 either for ornament or use, and forming at the same time a Table 
 useful in case of indisposition. Casters may be concealed in the plinths 
 or feet, making them moveable at pleasure. The ornaments in these 
 Designs are intended to be carved in wood, and bronzed in imitation of 
 metal. 
 
 PLATE 131. — Double Chest of Drawers. 
 
 An article of such general use does not stand in need of description. 
 This Design is made lower than is usual, to avoid the disagreeable al- 
 ternative of getting on chairs to place any thing in the upper drawers ; 
 for common use, no wood can be more serviceable than mahogany ; 
 for ornament, rose- wood with brass inlay, or satin-wood with black, 
 may however be adopted. This piece of furniture might also be placed 
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 PLATES 132, 133, 134. — Wardrobes. 
 
 These very useful appendages to the dressing room and bed chamber 
 are made single or with wings : in the former, the lower part contains 
 drawers, three or five at pleasure ; the upper part is filled with sliding 
 shelves for clothes : in the latter, the wings are usually calculated to 
 hold dresses, to be suspended on arms sliding on an iron rod. In 
 Plate 132 the drawers are concealed in the lower carcase by folding 
 doors, and the same in Plate 133. In Plate 134 drawers are intended to 
 be made in the plinth supporting the whole, as well as in the upper pan- 
 nels of the wings under the carved ornamental cornice. The decora- 
 tion in the Designs 132 and 134 may be carved and bronzed, or executed 
 wholly in mahogany ; the ornaments on Plate 133 are supposed as inlaid 
 with ebony. 
 
 PLATES 135 A, and 136 B.— Mirrors. 
 
 In apartments where an extensive view offers itself, these Glasses be- 
 come an elegant and useful ornament, reflecting objects in beautiful 
 perspective on their convex surfaces ; the frames, at the same time they 
 form an elegant decoration on the walls, are calculated to support lights. 
 In Plate 135 the vases on each side are intended for this purpose. In 
 Plate 136 Sconces are put as usual ; profiles of the moldings for the circles 
 are added to each Design, which should be bold ; in general, they 
 will admit of being executed in bronze and gold, but will be far more 
 elegant if executed wholly in gold. 
 
 PLATE 1 3 7 .—Chandelier. 
 This Design is intended to be manufactured for the chief part in 
 wood, the eagle carrying it being suspended in the centre of the ceiling 
 of the apartment where used. As in Mirrors, this article of decoration 
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 PLATE 138 Girandole. 
 
 Different only in the mode of fixing from the preceding article ; the 
 use is the same ; in rooms of considerable length, where a single Chan- 
 delier would not afford sufficient light, Girandoles are fixed at the ex- 
 tremities of apartments in pannels against the wall ; they are equally 
 serviceable in apartments where Chandeliers are not used. The manner 
 of finishing them, either in bronze or gold, will be the same as those 
 of the preceding Plates. 
 
 PLATE 13g. — Candelabra and Pedestal. 
 
 These supports for Lights are placed in the angles of drawing rooms, 
 and are used alternately for this purpose, as well as to carry transparent ala- 
 baster or glass vases. In apartments of state, where the furniture is made 
 stationary, these Pedestals may be placed by the sides of large sofas, in 
 continuation throughout the length of the room. 
 
 PLATE 140.— Chandelier. 
 
 What has been said on Plate 137 niay be applied to the present sub- 
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 PLATE 141. — Girandole, Vases, and Candlesticks. 
 The particular Description of Plate 138 will answer for the Giran- 
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 and need not be rejected in drawing rooms, if executed in wood carved 
 and gilt, in which case they answer conveniently to support vases of 
 flowers, or figures carrying branches for lights. The Designs in the 
 present Plate are supposed to be manufactured in wood, painted in imi- 
 tation of antique marble. 
 
 PLATES 143 and 144.— Jardiniers, Flower Stands, &c. 
 These articles are appendages to drawing rooms, boudoirs, &c. and 
 may be executed with every variety of taste and elegance agreeable to 
 the rooms they are intended for ; in mahogany they may be partly gilt 
 or bronzed, in rose- wood part gold only ; or they may be wholly gilt 
 or japanned, as Plate 144, which Design is very well adapted for the 
 ends of a long gallery or staircase, or to fill the space of a wide Vene- 
 tian window, whether in a room or on the landing of an elegant 
 staircase. 
 
 PLATES 145 A, 146 B.—Decoratio?i. 
 
 These Plates are given as specimens of Designs, useful to the paper- 
 hanger and decorator ; the Egyptian style is chosen in the first, and 
 in Plate 140 is given a specimen of decoration after the Etruscan, 
 compiled from specimens discovered at Herculaneum. These two pan- 
 nels are appropriate for the ends of rooms, or the spaces on each side 
 a chimney. In Plate 145 the cornice of the room should he finished 
 in oil gold, the fringe painted a mazarine blue, the stars of composition, 
 projecting and finished in clean matt gold. The dado of apartments 
 thus finished should be painted to imitate antique marble. 
 
 PLATES 147 C, and 148 D .—Chimney Glass and Decoration. 
 
 These Plates represent part of the longest sides of an apartment, where 
 the chimnies are usually placed, the arrangement and Decoration of 
 which is now given, shewing likewise the mode in which the Looking- 
 glass as also the frames are proportioned in respect to the chimney piece. 
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 and finished to imitate bronzed metal ; the vases on the mantle-piece 
 are intended to be real metal, part bronzed and part or molu ; the orna- 
 ments on the chimney-piece must be of metal gilt or pale lacquered, 
 where the expense is considered ; the Decoration on the walls are on 
 paper, and painted by hand. In Plate 148 the rustic frame is wood, 
 carved and bronzed, the ornament at the top with its side ornaments 
 are painted on the wall, with the other Decorations of the room ; the 
 vases suspended from the frame are intended to carry lights, and may 
 also be executed in wood and gilt; the vases on the mantle-piece are 
 supposed to be real Etruscan. 
 
 PLATE 14C). — Design for a Drawing Room in the Chinese Taste. 
 
 This Design for an elegant Drawing Room comprehends the long 
 side, containing the chimney-piece, which is made to represent a 
 Chinese Temple : a large plate of glass fits exactly the space between 
 the decorative pilasters of the room, against which Chinese Plants and 
 Trees are fixed, carved in wood : a glass of similar dimensions and 
 style being fixed on the opposite side of the room would produce a most 
 pleasing effect from double reflection. As nothing contributes more to a 
 real good effect than actual shadow produced by projection, the space on 
 each side the chimney is made to recede, thus admitting of real archi- 
 tectural decoration, as Columns, &c. which are after the Chinese taste. 
 These Columns may be covered with scagliola, or imitation of marble ; 
 the bases and capitals, as likewise the Decorations, are of gold : the 
 opposite side of the room being in correspondence, will admit of twelve 
 lamps for lights, in addition to the central chandelier, which may be 
 uniformly suspended from brackets. In each recess should be an 
 Ottoman. 
 
 The walls in this apartment should be painted to answer in every par- 
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 who should be well versed in the Chinese style, and avoid introducing any 
 species of ornament and arrangement not in accordance with this peculiar 
 taste, which has been often improperly used in rooms too small and 
 insignificant for any decoration to produce an imposing effect on the 
 spectator. A room like this, set apart as a drawing-room, should be 
 hung with rich one-coloured satin or velvet, the Chinese papers being 
 better calculated for plain or secondary apartments : where expense is 
 not spared and magnificence is required, a border might be worked in 
 embroidery to surround each pannel : the carpets would answer best 
 if made of the Wilton manufacture and of one colour, surrounded with 
 a rich Chinese border, kept two feet from the wall. 
 
 PLATE 150. — Drawing Room Decoration in the Gothic Style. 
 
 This example has been composed under the same arrangement as 
 the preceding Design, the only difference being in the style, which 
 admits of more variety in point of finishing : for example, the 
 walls of this room may be hung with satin or velvet, and covered 
 with Gothic tracery work, carved and richly gilt; or the Gothic 
 work might be executed in oak, the hollows being gilt, the wall or 
 grounds picked-in a rich crimson colour. A rich candelabra might be 
 placed with great propriety before each pier, joining the recesses.. 
 Great care should be taken in fitting up apartments after this fashion 
 to adopt an uniformity of ornament, and not to introduce any melange 
 of dates and styles. The florid Gothic has been chosen in this Design 
 from its light effect, in preference to earlier examples, which, however 
 much bordering on the Grecian style, are too massive for interior Deco- 
 ration. 
 
 PLATE 151. — Boudoir with Ottomans. 
 
 In this Design the whole decoration is after the antique. The man- 
 tles on the walls are meant to be real, and of satin, muslin, or superfine 
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 supporting the drapery are finished in matt gold. Ottomans occupy the 
 four sides of the room ; the openings, as doors and windows, having- 
 Chimeras on each side, executed in imitation of gold and bronze. The 
 whole of this ornamental Design may be executed in water-colour, on 
 the walls, by a skilful artist, with good effect. The floor should be 
 covered with Wilton carpeting of a plain colour. 
 
 PLATES 152 and 153. — State Drawing Room, shewing its Decoration 
 and Furniture, ivitli a Section and Plan of the same. 
 
 These Plates shew how essential architecture is towards producing 
 grandeur of effect in an apartment of elegance and consequence, without 
 which, although beauty may be obtained, a grand style never can be pro- 
 duced. The business of Decoration being generally entrusted to the 
 vender of paper-hangings, it is perhaps too much to expect any thing like 
 arrangement or rule : the same happens repeatedly where the Decora- 
 tion is entrusted to artists, who, although capable of producing good 
 effects by the pencil, are totally unacquainted with any architectural 
 rules by which to govern their proportions. A knowledge, therefore, 
 of architecture, so far as relates to the general proportions of the Orders, 
 as it gives a facility in making and arranging plans in proportion, be- 
 comes indispensable to the Upholder as well as to the Architect. The 
 knowledge of this science once obtained will produce a taste for uni- 
 formity ; and its rules, which are the groundwork of so much method 
 and precision, cannot fail of producing a pleasing effect in the per- 
 formances of those who devote a portion of their time to its study. 
 
 Of the present Design, the columns afford recesses, and give space 
 for the reception of the Sofas, and thereby prevent them projecting 
 into the room ; a recess is made also between the pilasters, opposite 
 the chimney, in which is placed a marble Table, supported on Chimeras 
 carved and gilt ; a subplinth is given to the columns and pilasters, equal 
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 Table placed in the centre may be stationary, round which should be 
 placed four Chaises Longue, and at each angle a Candelabra to support 
 candles or lamps. The Chairs placed in this room are also supposed 
 to be stationary, lighter ones being dispersed about the room for use. 
 
 A Drawing Room of such consequence should be hung with damask 
 or velvet ; the shafts of the columns and parts of the architecture, sup- 
 posed to be statuary marble, may be finished in white, highly polished ; 
 the capitals and bases of the columns carved and finished in gold ; the 
 ornaments in the pilasters and frieze, as well as the moldings of the 
 cornice, &c. all in the same style. For the windows, the Curtains 
 should be crimson, to suit the walls ; the Draperies blue, having a 
 gold fringe to both : the opposite side to the windows being similar in 
 its plan and arrangement, must have Draperies and Curtains attached 
 to the walls behind the Sofas. The Glass over the chimney, is se- 
 cured by the pilasters, and needs no other frame. The middle recess 
 on this side of the Room, as shewn in the Section, is made into a 
 window, having the Glass of one entire plate, without any sash bars : 
 a plate of looking-glass slides within the wall, which at night is to be 
 drawn over the. window; the Drapery round which is made en suite 
 with the, side windows. The ceiling being painted as a sky, any Chan- 
 delier suspended from it has been avoided ; instead of which, four 
 smaller lights are hung from the soffit at the termination of the cove. 
 
 In Plate 153 a plan is given, which shews the arrangement of the 
 Chairs, Sofas, &c. in which Candelabri are placed in the angles of the 
 room. In the geometrical elevation of the side of this apartment, the 
 Chandeliers suspended from the cove are omitted, as they would have 
 greatly confused the pilasters, and their effect is clearly shewn in the 
 perspective view. On the same account the Candelabri in the angles 
 of the Room have been omitted, their places being shewn in the Plan. 
 The Carpet for this State Apartment should be of a plain colour in the 
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 gold-colour might be worked round it, to answer the cove, and set two 
 feet from the wall, to be clear from the furniture. 
 
 Such a Room should not open immediately to the staircase; a circular 
 or octangular vestibule is necessary, which should be fitted up equally 
 well in its decorations, though plainer. At the opposite end should be 
 a Withdrawing Room, opening likewise on a staircase, thus admitting 
 the Company one way, and allowing their departure by another ; all 
 which is easily arranged in houses built expressly for persons of fashion, 
 and by which the confusion attendant on large assemblies may be 
 greatly avoided. 
 
 PLATES 154 and 155. — Moldings for Glass Frames, &c. 
 
 The first of these Plates contains Designs for Picture and Glass 
 Frame Moldings, with the whole of their decoration, and profiles at- 
 tached to each. For Pictures^ all mixture 'should be avoided, the 
 Frames executed solely in gold ; for Glass Frames, a mixture of bronze 
 may be admitted. In Plate 155, the arrangement is given for the mitre 
 angles, on which are placed blocks admitting over them an ornamental 
 termination. Profiles are given for the respective Moldings of these 
 Frames, affording sufficient explanation to the workman.. 
 
 PLATES 156 and 15J.— Profiles for Moldings for Cabinet Worh. 
 
 These Plates give an ample variety of Moldings for almost every sort 
 of Cabinet Work, whether for cornices, filleting bands, or base mold- 
 ings ; at the same time they furnish sufficient examples to the Cabinet- 
 maker for compilation. It wilt be needless to point out the kind of 
 material they should be made of: it will ever be subject to circum- 
 stance and fancy. For general directions, the larger Moldings may 
 be of mahogany, and the smaller in ebony or bronze : if the furniture 
 be satin-wood, the larger members may follow the .same arrange- 
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 This elegant ornament, of ancient invention, makes the happiest De- 
 sign for borders, whether for our walls or floors ; it is equally beautiful 
 in friezes, and admits of being used as much by the Carver as by the 
 Weaver or Printer. Nothing can be more appropriate, applied in 
 narrow pannels, placed at the top and bottom of doors, to break their 
 too great length. The Japanner and Painter will find in this ornament 
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