[Designs for furniture and paneling]

Cornille, F., fl. 1740-1756 · 1751 · A Paris : Chés François Chereau, rue St. Jacques, aux deux piliers d'or · 19 pictures

An 1751 engraved pattern book of French paneling and door designs, published in Paris by Chéreau under the name of F. Cornille for craftsmen and decorators. Its pictures are measured elevations and plans of doors, panels and moulded boiseries with scrolls, cartouches and pilasters, offering a designer ready-made Rococo framing and ornament vocabulary that reads clearly in plan.

Furniture -- Drawings · Furniture design -- France -- History -- 18th century · Church furniture -- Drawings · Paneling -- Drawings

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