The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director

Name/Title

The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director

Entry/Object ID

2004.004.0050

Secondary Title

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director

Description

Unaltered and unabridged republication of the 1762 edition of The Director. Articles of furniture depicted are extremely varied: chairs, sofas, canopy and dome beds, couches, bed and window cornices, breakfast tables, shaving tables, commodes, chamber organs, cabinets, candle stands, cisterns, chimney pieces, picture frames, frets and other decorations, etc. Besides many plates of elegant drawings, this volume also includes a supplement of photographs of 18th century Chippendale-style pieces, and a short biographical sketch of Chippendale by N.I. Bienenstock. 1 v., chiefly ill., 31 cm., paperback

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2004.004.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2004)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Fine Arts, Decorative arts; applied arts; decoration and ornament, Furniture, History of furniture, Designers, Furniture--England--Early works to 1800, Decoration and ornament--Chippendale style--Early works to 1800, Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779

Book Details

Author

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779

Edition

Reprint of 3rd ed.

Publisher

Dover Publications

Place Published

Location

New York, NY

Call No.

NK2542 .C5 A3 1966

ISBN

0-486-21601-2

LCCN

66-24135

Notes

Date: [1966] Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

NRH Research Room

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

NR Docent Library

Category

Permanent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Chippendale, Thomas

General Notes

Note

Notes: "Reprint of the Third Edition with a Biographical Sketch and Photographic Supplemental of Chippendale-Type Furniture"--t.p. Full title of original: The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture, in the Most Fashionable Taste. Including a Great Variety of Chairs, Sofas, Beds, and Couches; China-Tables, Dressing-Tables, Shaving-Tables, Bason-Stands, and Teakettle-stands; Frames for Marble-Slabs, Bureau-Dressing-Tables, and Commodes; Writing-Tables, and Library-Tables; Library-Book-Cases, Organ-Cases for Private Rooms, or Churches, Desks, and Book-Cases; Dressing and Writing Tables with Book-Cases, Toilets, Cabinets, and Cloaths-Presses; China-Cases, China-Shelves, and Book-Shelves; Candle-Stands, Terms for Busts, Stands for China Jars, and Pedestals; Cisterns for Water, Lanthorns, and Chandeliers; Fire-Screens, Brackets, and Clock-Cases; Pier-Glasses, and Table-Frames; Girandoles, Chimney-Pieces, and Picture-Frames; Stove-Grates, Boarders, Frets, Chinese-Railing, and Brass-Work, for Furniture. And Other Ornaments. To which is Prefixed, a Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture; with Proper Directions for Executing the Most Difficult Pieces, the Mouldings being Exhibited at Large, and the Dimensions of Each Design Specified. The Whole Comprehended in Two Hundred Copper-Plates, Neatly Engraved. Calculated to Improve and Refine the Present Taste, and Suited to the Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in All Degrees of Life. Status: Shelf

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Create Date

August 18, 2004

Updated By

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Update Date

April 11, 2013