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‘¥ YOU wanted to see
today’s finest and latest
products of the interior
-. design industry, vou would
go to the Yaletown area in
downtown Wancouver where.
“old: ‘warehouses | and facto-
ries have been transformed
inte tready showrooms.
The equivalent area.in Toronto
; is known as Designers! Walk.
where. the'‘Just Desserts’ coffee
“shop servés as central meeting
lace forthe industry, 9): ,
If; you could step back in time
tothe year 1754,-you would find
the latest j in furniture.design at St.
’ Martin's Lane ‘in the heart of :
_~London, right down the street
- from Old Slaughter’s Coffee
‘House. There you would come -

": “across the store fronts of well-

known cabinet makers, carvers.

ue engravers, painters and architects. ‘Joshua Reynolds lived
‘there, and so did the Prince of Wales.

“ You might even encounter an animated celebration at
Thomas Chippendale’ s workshop. with the master and his
crew toasting the publication of the Gentleman and.

‘Cabinet-Maker’ ‘Ss Director. The engravings in this baok are.

“works of arty ‘drawn’ in exquisite : detail and with 2 great.
: Patience.
The book was a successful marketing tool for Thomas

Chippendale’ s workshops; it helped to establish the style’
._ known today by his name. The publication‘ also inspired -

* several other cabinet-makers to publish book featuring their
own, unique designs. *

_ The Director contained measured drawings of o over 160

TAPE SPELT RLEC RAETEONPNIETS BE P

items of furniture, many of them adapted hy Chippendale
from earlier designs, others designed and built in his own

: workshop.

The book, published i in 1754, enabled furniture manu-
facturers i in North and South America, in Europe and i mn
many. other parts of the world to recreate his designs
which is one of the reasons why Chippendale’ originals are
‘difficult to‘ verify, Even: antique dealers are hard- -pressed io
_- positively identify an original Chippendale uriless it comes
with documents or bills of sale. 2

Many valuable reproductions as well as poor copies of

cabinets, chairs and tables have their origin in this first-of-
its-kind book.’
To buyers of the time Gentleman and Cabinet- Maker’ 7

ing.

Friday, September 28; 1995 — North Shore News =

THE CHIPPENDALE designs
were ‘inspired .by ciaesica
Lo styles. Much of Chippendale’ ‘Ss
early furniture had. gracefully
curved . -eabriole:iiegs “and:
backs simliar.to those which
had been popular during. the
reign: of ‘Gueen’ Anite. in. the
early. 1700s ;

‘Director was. a guide, to the art and eiiqueite of elegant liv-

Those: who could afford. Chippendale’s: ‘services were.

“able to retain him for the decoration of their entire home

where he would install window treatments. supply wallpa:
pérs. floor cfoths, wash stands and bedsteads eo in short,

- everything’a rich client might want or need.)

- ft cost the {0th Earl of Pembroke £1,500.to have rooms -
at his Salisbury and London homes ‘fined up’ by Thomas: a
Chippendale. -.. :

Unfortunately, many. of Chippendale’ s patrons juxuriat-

"ed in his work but overlooked to pay his bills; and although,

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