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The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale1762
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Through his designs for furniture and architectural elements, Thomas Chippendale became one of the most influential tastemakers of the 1700s. He published three editions of <em>The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director </em>(1754, 1755, and 1762), which sold widely in Britain, Ireland, and America. This rare French version of the third edition demonstrates his effort to spread his designs for both naturalistic and neoclassical decoration even wider across Europe.
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- Title: The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
- Creator: Thomas Chippendale (British, 1718–1779), T. Becket & P. A. de Hondt (British)
- Date Created: 1762
- Physical Dimensions: 47.9 x 30.5 x 6 cm (18 7/8 x 12 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Private Collection, London, 2014, sold to (Jeremy Garfield-Davies, London) for Frederick C. Uhde, London, Frederick C. Uhde, London, by descent to his wife, Mrs. Kathy Uhde, Mrs. Kathy Uhde, 2019, given to Philip Uhde, FL, USA, Philip A. Uhde, 2019, consigned to (Jeremy Garfield-Davis, London), (Jeremy Garfield-Davies, London, 2019, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Bound Volume
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.80
- Medium: Paper, leather
- Fun Fact: Fewer than fifteen copies, including this one, of the French edition of Thomas Chippendale’s famous book of designs, are known to exist.
- Edition of Work: third
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: Britain
- Credit Line: Gift of Philip A. Uhde in memory of his father, Frederick C. Uhde
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 2019.80
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