Identifier: bookofdecorative01fole (find matches)
Title: The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Foley, Edwin
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : T.C. and E.C. Jack

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et a visit to Knole Park, with itsleafy avenues, its deer park, its royal, noble, and ambassadorial associ-ations. Apart from the unique specimens of pathetically time-wornearly Jacobean beds, couches, double seats, stools, and tabourets, itsgalleries are famed for late sixteenth and seventeenth-century wood-work. Not the least interesting is the curious wooden-bedded billiardtable, said to have been the first used in England, and, even if not earlyStuart, made before the close of the style. Early billiards apparentlywere played with central croquet hoops, and resembled table croquetsomewhat. The chair is that shown in Mytens almost contemporary portraitof James i. ; whilst the couch has appeared in modern painting,having been depicted in Marcus Stones picture, The Stolen Keys. The pieces are shown as they probably appeared before timehad dimmed their freshness, in an apartment similar to the OrganRoom at Knole, whilst the details of the panelling are from otherpai-ts of the building.
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CONTINENTAL CONTEMPORARIES OFTHE LATE GOTHIC AND TUDORPERIODS. THE RENAISSANCE INITALY (Reference to the Style Chart in Part I., and to the Time-table of Architectural Styles inPart II., will be found of material assistance.) FROM time to time the formative arts, stirred by and voicingthe aspuations of their day, flower into some new phase ofbeauty, to be nurtured in its native soil, and thence trans-planted to other lands, whose national characteristics evolve variantsof the type. Such a response to the time-spirit was the intellectualand artistic movement known as the Renaissance, that great revivalor rebirth of interest in, and of insight into, Art, Letters, and Life,which was in full flower when, in the last quarter of the fifteenthcentury, decorative furniture began to be introduced into privateEnglish homes. Born in Italy more than a century before it became supremein France, vitalising the architecture and applied arts of thatcountry, the movement spread to Germany, where it to

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