Just some more info I'm finding interesting... reading through "The Early F=
urniture of French Canada". This info is relative to other than just Canad=
ian furniture.
"Console legs" - When I read this, I asked, Now, what the heck is this. Br=
acketed legs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43836144@N04/8118718854/in/phot=
ostream
Further reading about this chair: "Armchair, having bracket or console-shap=
ed legs as in 'Os de mouton chairs', and an arbal=E8te-fronted seat rail. =
A curious mixture of styles. The back is in Louis XIV curvilinear form, wh=
ile the set-back armrests are in the Louis XV manner. The incurved front s=
eat rail of arbal=E8te form is very rare. The cross-stretcher is of the ty=
pe known as a 'double chapeau de gendarme'."
Further reading about the armchair design: "The 'habitants', having seen t=
his type of chair in the Seigneur's manor, quickly imitated it for use in t=
heir homes. A great variety of specimens exist, some roughly made and some=
the work of craftmen. At first, they were made with bracket posts, the tw=
o front legs rising to a certain height, then curving back in a continuous =
line to form the armrests of the chair. In the early eighteenth century, =
the armrest were supported by brackets (supports d'accoudoir en console) se=
t back a little from the front of the chair, to allow the ladies, whose ski=
rts had taken on more ample proportions, to seat themselves elegantly witho=
ut feeling confined. ...."
I had never realized the origin of the setting back of armrests/armrest pos=
ts, from the front of the chair, was to accommodate the ladies, that way.
Sonny
In article <[email protected]>,
Sonny <[email protected]> wrote:
> whose skirts had taken on more ample proportions, to seat themselves
> elegantly without feeling confined. ...."
And these days it isn't their skirts that have taken on more ample
proportions, it's their ugly great fat backsides
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J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
>>
>> Hmmm!? - On a side note: After thinking about it, a moment, I'm
>> surprised those French ladies had any objection as to how their
>> skirts were accommodated.
>>
>> Sonny
>
>
> Bear in mind that from the 1300s to the early 1900s skirts often had
> some kind of frame underneath, some of them of rather ludicrous
> proportions.
Now they just have fat holding them outward...
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[email protected]
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> Hmmm!? - On a side note: After thinking about it, a moment, I'm surprised those French ladies had any objection as to how their skirts were accommodated.
>
> Sonny
Bear in mind that from the 1300s to the early 1900s skirts often had
some kind of frame underneath, some of them of rather ludicrous
proportions.
Stuart wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Sonny <[email protected]> wrote:
>> whose skirts had taken on more ample proportions, to seat themselves
>> elegantly without feeling confined. ...."
>
> And these days it isn't their skirts that have taken on more ample
> proportions, it's their ugly great fat backsides
Hey - somebody else noticed! Stuart - you are an astute observer!
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-Mike-
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On 10/24/2012 7:01 AM, Sonny wrote:
> Hmmm!? - On a side note: After thinking about it, a moment, I'm surprised those French ladies had any objection as to how their skirts were accommodated.
Hoop skirts ...
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