Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs . Sideboard Veneered with Burr Elm. By Mr E. W. Gimson.. Print Cabinet in Italian Walnut with Raised Inlay. By Mr E. VV. Gimson. [To face page 527. HISTORIC STYLES OF FURNITURE AND MODERN EXAMPLES 257 ing of a house. He designed furniture, textiles, and carpets, and wall-paperswhich have had a world-wide sa

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Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs . Sideboard Veneered with Burr Elm. By Mr E. W. Gimson.. Print Cabinet in Italian Walnut with Raised Inlay. By Mr E. VV. Gimson. [To face page 527. HISTORIC STYLES OF FURNITURE AND MODERN EXAMPLES 257 ing of a house. He designed furniture, textiles, and carpets, and wall-paperswhich have had a world-wide sale. The furniture had a tendency to Gothicforms, and much of it was painted, carved, or inlaid. But he is best knownby his wonderful designs in wall-papers and textiles, which were based onnatural forms entirely. In 1861 he established the firm of Morris & Co., ofOxford Street, and was largely responsible in forming the Arts and CraftsSociety. The two cabinets illustrated, one as the frontispiece, are examples ofthe fine type of work done by this firm.They were designed by Mr George Jack, and are reproduced by permission ofE. H. Marillier, Esq. The New Art development, which took place in the last years of thenineteenth century, led rather to eccen-tricity in form and construction than toany well-based ideas of reform in taste.A laudabl