Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900) (14781368201)

Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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with in theMiddle Ages; but they were not treated as decorative furniture tillthe Renascence. A number of really magnificent examples from thisperiod have been preserved (fig. 5). The usual form is that of aslender, taU Cabinet, the upper and lower parts of which are providedwith doors, and serve to hold various necessary objects, while thecentre takes the form of a niche. In this niche hangs a metal water-reservoir with a lid and a cock; at the lower end of the niche is abasin to receive the waste water. Elegant wrought-iron towel-holdersare attached. The two figures (5 and 6) will give an idea of thearrangement of these pretty pieces of furniture, which are now be-coming popular again, after they had been supplanted and fallen intodisuse. Plate 258. The Clock-case, &c. 1. Barocco, with pedestal, by Daniel Marot. 2. Modem, with roof, by Hans Steimer, Furtwangen. 3. Modern, with metal ornaments, architect Lauter, Carlsruhe. 4. Modern, by Fr. Miltenberger, Nuremberg. 456 FURNITURE.
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Plate 258. The Clock-Case, &c. The Clock-Case, &c. — The Bedstead, and the Cradle. 457 5. Toilet - stand, German Renascence, 1597, Town-hall, Ueberlingen,(Gewerbehalle). 6. Toilet-stand, various coloured woods, Gernnan Renascence, (Formen-schatz). The Bedstead, and the Cradle. (Plates 259—2GO.) From the earliest to the present time, the Bedstead has passedthrough many changes. In the Egyptian and Assyrian styles: we findmetal Bedsteads imitating the forms of animals (Plate 259. 1, 2); andsometimes arranged to fold up like a Camp-bed (Plate 259. 2). Those ofthe Greeks and Romans, which served partly as Beds, and partly asCouches, are of manifold forms. In addition to the four-legged bench(Plate 259. 3), we have benches with a head-board (Plate 259. 1), withhead and foot board (Plate 259. 4), the latter being usually lowerthan the former, and others with head, foot, and back boards, likeour modern Sofas (Plate 260. 2). The materials are wood and metal,sometimes more precious