Cape Country Furniture: A Pictorial Survey of Regional Styles, Materials, and Techniques in the Cape Province of South Africa |
Contents
Historical introduction | 9 |
Notes on the furniture arrangement in the old Cape house | 15 |
Spindle chairs | 21 |
Copyright | |
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appear apron armchair back rail blocks box-stretcher Cape country Cape Town carpenter carved cedarwood century stinkwood chest Collection colour common corner cupboard decorative desk Detail district door drawers early 19th century evidence example feet fittings fluted foot four frame front furniture gate-leg table groove H-stretcher hinges holes imported inlay interesting joints late late 19th century later Little Karoo lower marks Mid-19th century missing Museum notch occasionally original Oudtshoorn painted panels pattern pediment pieces plain planks posts probably rare replaced riempied Riversdale rusbank Sandveld seat seen shaped showing shown side similar slats sometimes spindle chair Split splat chair square stand Stellenbosch stinkwood and yellowwood stretcher stretcher table style surface Swellendam table-top tapered legs tapered-leg teak transitional Tulbagh chair turned typical unusual upper rail usually wash-stand West Coast wide wood wooden