The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director

Thomas Chippendale. The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director - London, 1754 | PDF | 198 pages | 97.6 MB

Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) was the most famous and most skilled of England's master cabinet-makers. So synonymous with excellence in design and craftsmanship was his name that it has been given to the most splendid period of furniture design in England.
In 1754, Chippendale issued a catalogue of his designs, a magnificent folio of 160 engraved plates representing the prevailing furniture styles, particularly the French (Louis XV), 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.

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