Elements of style in furniture and woodwork : being a series of details of the Italian, German Renaissance, Elizabethan, Louis XIVth, Louis XV th, Louis XVIth, Sheraton, Adams, Empire, Chinese, Japanese, and Moresque styles carefully drawn from the best examples, for the use of architects, furniture designers, cabinet makers, and others
Elements of style in furniture and woodwork is a 1889 London pattern book by Robert Brook, self-published, collecting measured details of Renaissance, Elizabethan and Louis XIV through Empire, Chinese and Japanese styles for architects, furniture designers and cabinet makers. Its plates show ornamental cartouches, keyhole escutcheons, brackets, pedestals, a cartouche-framed mirror, a decorative frieze and carved panels drawn in fine black line, offering designers reusable scrollwork, festoons and rococo framing motifs.
