SEFUL DESIGNS
OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
In the Most FASHIONABLE TASTE.

Including a great VARIETY of

CHAIRS, SOFAS, BEDS, and COUCHES; CHINA-TABLES,
DRESSING-TABLES, SHAVING-TABLES,
BASON-STANDS, and TEAKETTLE-STANDS;
FRAMES for MARBLE-SLABS, BUREAU-DRESSING-TABLES,
and COMMODES;
WRITING-TABLES, and LIBRARY-TABLES;
LIBRARY-BOOK-CASES, ORGAN-CASES for
private Rooms, or Churches, DESKS, and
BOOK-CASES; DRESSING and WRITING-TABLES
with BOOK-CASES, TOILETS, CABINETS,
and CLOATHS-PRESSES; CHINA-CASES,
CHINA-SHELVES, and BOOK-SHELVES;
CANDLE-STANDS, TERMS for BUSTS, STANDS
for CHINA JARS, and PEDESTALS; CISTERNS
for WATER, LANTHORNS, and CHANDELIERS;
FIRE-SCREENS, BRACKETS, and CLOCK-CASES;
PIER-GLASSES, and TABLE-FRAMES; GIRANDOLES,
CHIMNEY-PIECES, and PICTURE-FRAMES;
STOVE-GRATES, BOARDERS, FRETS,
CHINESE-RAILING, and BRASS-WORK, for
Furniture,

AND OTHER
ORNAMENTS,
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
A Short EXPLANATION of the Five ORDERS of ARCHITECTURE;
WITH

Proper DIRECTIONS for executing the most difficult Pieces, the
Mouldings being exhibited at large, and the Dimensions of each DESIGN
specified.

The Whole comprehended in Two HUNDRED COPPER-PLATES, neatly engraved.

Calculated to improve and refine the present TASTE, and suited to the
Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in all Degrees of Life.

By THOMAS CHIPPENDALE,
CABINET-MAKER and UPHOLSTERER, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR, and sold at his House, in St. Martin's Lane;
Also by T. BECKET and P.A. DeHONDT, in the Strand.

MDCCLXII.
]

[Illustration: Fac-simile of a Page in Chippendale's "Director." (The
original is folio size.)]

[Illustration: Tea Caddy, Carved in the French style. (From Chippendale's
"Director.")]

In the chapter on Louis XV. and Louis XVI. furniture, it has been shewn
how France went through a similar change about this same period. In
Chippendale's chairs and console tables, in his state bedsteads and his
lamp-stands, one can recognise the broken scrolls and curved lines, so
familiar in the bronze mountings of Caffieri. The influence of the change
which had occurred in France during the Louis Seize period is equally
evident in the Adams' treatment. It was helped forward by the migration
into this country of