Word: woodworker
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...Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven copper finials designed by architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Anonymous...
High Epoch. Louis XIII furniture was modern in its day; it marked the point when hand-carved Renaissance woodwork gave way to all the sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish...
...with an air of urbanity and $30 as initiation fee, payable at the door. Its 10,000 members now include the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Winston Churchill, the Sheik of Kuwait and Cary Grant. The place exudes an atmosphere of luxury, with its heavy carpets, dark brocades and carved woodwork...
...trend is the number of works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...
...happen. Last week, in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, some 519 businessmen crawled out of the woodwork and endorsed Barry Goldwater for President. Unlike the Johnson businessmen whom they view as a leech on the body politic sustaining themselves by their "vital interest in continued big government," the 519 claimed that their success was based, predictably enough, on "free enterprise...