The Furniture Designs of Thomas Chippendale

Chippendale, Thomas

Hayden, Arthur

Bell, J Munro

History

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Thomas Chippendale (1718–79) was the most famous and most skilled of England's master cabinet-makers. So synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship was he that his name has been given to the most splendid period of English furniture design. In 1774, Chippendale issued a catalogue of all his designs, a magnificent compilation of 160 engraved plates representing the prevailing furniture styles, particularly the French (Louis XXV), Gothic, and Chinese-manner pieces for which he was best known. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, the most important and thorough catalogue of furniture designs that had ever been published in England, was enormously influential, spreading quickly throughout the Continent and the colonies and guiding the style and construction of furniture everywhere. A second edition was formed the following year, and a third in 1762. Today this classic collection is a very rare and highly valued work. This volume is an unaltered and unabridged republication of the 1762 edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. The articles of furniture depicted are extremely varied: chairs, sofas, canopy and dome beds, window cornices, breakfast tables, shaving tables, commodes, chamber organs, cabinets, candle stands, cisterns, chimney pieces, picture frames, frets, and other decorations. The plates contain elegant drawings that show the unique combination of solidity of construction and lightness and grace that was the Chippendale trademark, along with many construction diagrams, elevations, and enlargements of moldings and other details. In addition to the plates, this volume also includes a supplement of photographs of sixteenth-century Chippendale-style pieces, including some executed by Chippendale, complete captions to the photos, and a short biographical sketch of Chippendale by N. I. Bienenstock, editor of Furniture World. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director is an indispensable guide for antiquarians, furniture dealers, and collectors, and a treasury of ideas for today's designers. Art lovers and other readers will also find it a delightful browsing book.

The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Dover Publications

It was Thomas Chippendale's book of designs, The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, which was to ensure his lasting fame. It was the first attempt by a cabinetmaker to produce such an ambitious publication, similar to fashionable arch itects, surveying the whole repertoire of contemp orary furniture styles and intended as an advertis

The Gentleman and Cabinet - Maker's Director: A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1754

Arts & Photography

Chippendale Society The

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT129806Titlepage in red and black. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. The third leaf is an engraved dedication.London : printed for the author, and sold at his house. MDCCLIV. Also by T. Osborne; H. Piers; R. Sayer; J. Swan. At Edinburgh, by Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour: and at Dublin, by Mr. John Smith, [1754]. [4],x,27,[1]p.,plates ; 2°

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture ... the Whole ... Copper-Plates, ... by Thomas Chippendale, ...

History & Criticism

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture ... The Whole ... Copper-plates, ... By Thomas Chippendale,

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT014876With an additional engraved leaf of dedication. In fact a reissue of the edition of [1754].London: printed by J. Haberkorn, for the author, and sold at his house. Also by T. Osborne, H. Piers, R. Sayer, J. Swan. At Edinburgh by Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour: and at Dublin, by Mr. John Smith, 1755. x,27, [1]p., CLX plates; 2°

The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture in the Gothic, ... of the Five Orders of Architecture, ed 2

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