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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)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Thomas Sheraton

(1751–1806)
Furniture designer whose wide influence derived from The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (issued in 4 parts, 1791–4). Its intention was to provide practical information about the best designs of the time, making it easily available to cabinet-makers. The style was still *neoclassical. In preparing his book Sheraton interviewed craftsmen in different sections of the trade about their special skills (there is no evidence that he himself had a workshop or ever made any furniture). The success of this book has given his name to the English furniture of the period immediately after *Hepplewhite.
 








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