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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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George Hepplewhite
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(d. 1786) Although now one of the best-known names among English cabinet-makers, not a single piece of furniture by Hepplewhite has been identified. He became famous two years after his death, when his widow published nearly 300 of the firm's working drawings under the title The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide. The designs adapt to more simple everyday purposes the *neoclassical style introduced by Robert Adam. The Hepplewhite patterns (it is not known if they were actually by him) were intended to 'unite elegance with utility, and blend the useful with the agreeable'. As such they were widely copied by cabinet-makers all over the country.
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