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Excerpt from Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer, 1915, Vol. 15 Ihe imagination and passion for elegance of which his meager life deprived him blossomed into form and shape of beautiful and magnificent mahogany de signs, inlaid with festoons of satinwood and polished to a mirror-like reflection to decorate the beautiful homes of the rich. Sheraton himself lived his whole life as a poor man. Lie did not care to become rich, and in all probability would not have been able to have accomplished it had he tried to, as Adam Black, for a short time an assist ant to Sheraton, says he lived in a poor street in lo11 don, his house half shop, half dwelling. Sheraton did not use much carving on his designs; the decorative effect was mostly brought out by the use of marquetry and inlay, which characterized his style more than that of any other English style. Dur ing the Sheraton period veneered mahogany was chiefly used for the simpler pieces and satinwood for the more elaborate. Harewood and amboyna were also used and applied in veneers over cheaper and more easily worked woods. Shortly before the end of the century rosewood, necessarily mainly used in the form of veneers, also became increasingly popular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.