Background
Sheraton was born in 1751 in Stockton-on-Tees, England.
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From the elegance of Hepplewhite to the grandeur of Louis XVI, this 18th-century sourcebook presents the best designs from the Late Adam Classical Revival. It features complete coverage of Sheraton's most important designs, including clock cases, commodes, drawing tables, chairs, and other items. Richly illustrated with 98 plates.
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Excerpt from The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book: In Four Parts Derivation Of the Terms Hemisphere and Section, Of the Sections and Coverings of regular and irregular Figures, Problem 21. Of the Covering for a Vase, Of the Covering of an irregular Vase, Of the Covering of a Sphere, 23. The Section and Covering of a Knife-case. 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.
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The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, first published as a single volume in 1793, is generally considered to be Sheraton's most important undertaking. The text comprises dissertations on perspective, architecture, and geometry and offers practical and detailed commentary on the furniture of Sheraton's day. This Praeger edition of the Drawing-Book includes an introduction to the life and work of Thomas Sheraton, as well as an authoritative discussion by Wilford P. Cole on the origin and authenticity of his designs. To assist the reader, the plates--which were originally published in serial form--have been renumbered to accord with references given in the text.
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Sheraton was born in 1751 in Stockton-on-Tees, England.
In his youth Sheraton was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, but relatively little is known of his career as a maker and designer of furniture until 1790, when he settled in London and began the publication of his books.
Sheraton's designs were intended "to exhibit the present taste of furniture" and "at the same time to give the workman some assistance. "
They represent an advance upon the neoclassic designs of Robert Adam and George Hepplewhite in the direction of even greater elegance and refinement and in the preference for chair backs and mirror frames of square shape instead of the oval forms favored by these two predecessors.
Some elements of his designs, such as "reeding" and splayed "claw legs" for tables, persisted as late as 1820.
Of greater significance for the Regency period, however, was Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary (1803), in which he emphasized the new severer and more archeologically correct aspect of the classical spirit, which he had derived from French Directoire designs and from the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Henry Holland, Charles Heathcote Tatham, and Thomas Hope.
Sheraton now included animal motifs such as lion masks and lion monopodia, or lion-shaped supports for chairs and tables.
Increasingly in his later years his designs showed signs of eccentricity, but a selection of the best designs from his three works, published as Designs for Household Furniture (1812), did much to establish his influence in early 19th-century furniture design and production.
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In 1799 Sheraton left London to become a Baptist minister at Stockton and Darlington, Yorkshire, and continued in this work until 1802.
Sheraton went to London about 1790 and is said to have "supported himself, a wife, and two children by his exertions as an author. "
