The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world (1908) (14596549447)

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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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, and the dining-room. Mahogany,curly birch, and maple are still extensively used ;all of them for the bedroom, and mahogany forthe dining-room and the drawing-room in thebetter grades of furniture. The changes infurniture covering have been more frequent andradical than those in the w-oods. Haircloth andother coverings in use 30 years ago have beensuperseded by materials more varied in textureand coloring. Their variety is almost endless,and they show, perhaps as much as anythingelse, the advance that art as applied to furni-ture has made in this country. The presentcentres of the furniture industry are. with oneexception fGrand Rapids. Mich.), the largestcities, which, with their densely populatedsuburbs and surroundings, offer large markets.The cities whose productions amount to morethan $2,000,000 per annum, in the order of theirimportance, are: Xew York, Chicago, GrandRapids. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis,Boston. The following statistics show the furniture FURNITURE.—III.
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