Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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on the knees (fig. 1), or small tables, an example ofwhich is given in fig. 2. But it was reserved for our much-writingModern time to invent special fui-niture for business and private use.The Writing-table must not only serve for writing, but also as areceptacle for stationery, coiTespondence, writing-materials, &c. Henceit is furnished with cupboards, drawers, pigeon-holes, and shelves.It is often furnished with side-cupboards below the table-top havinga space between them for the legs of the writer. Where the tablehas an upper part, which admits of a variety of constructions, asmay be seen from the few examples of the Plate, it is usually oflesser depth than the surface of the table so as to leave the ne-cessary room for writing. The same end is attained by leaving aspace equal to the whole depth free between it and the table-top,as shown by fig. 6. The table-top is often covered with some textilematerial or with leather, to afford a soft surface for writing-upon 444 FUENITURE.
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Plate 252. The Writing-Table. The Writing-Table. — The Cabinet. 445 Special varieties are formed by the Double-writing-table for officeuse, the Cylinder-desk, which can be closed after use by letting downa cylindrical flap, the Secretaire, in which the table-top may be liftedup or locked, the Ladys-writing-table, &c. Plate 252. The Writing-table. 1. Mediaeval, (scriptionale) with inkhom, intended to be placed onthe knee, 11th century, portal of the chvirch, Vezelay, (Viollet-le-Duc). 2. Mediaeval, with double top, for raising, 15th century. Abbey ofSaint-Michel-en-Mer, (Viollet-le-Duc). 3. Modern, with eight legs and side drawers, (Max Schulz). 4. Modem. 5. Modern. 6. Modern, by W. Hanau, (Gewerbehalle). c. Cabinets. The Cabinet. (Plate 253.) Cabinets were evidently a rare phenomenon in Antiquity. TheEgyptians and the Greeks were probably not acquainted with themat all; the Romans seem to have possessed simple Cabinets with twodoors, if we may judge from occasional paintings; in

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