biography
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Hepplewhite, George
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?–1786)
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| biography:
| British furniture designer. He seems to have trained as a cabinet-maker with the Lancaster firm of Gillow, and then set up a workshop at St Giles, Cripplegate, in London; but not a single piece of extant furniture is attributable to him. His simple and elegant designs, characterized by the free use of inlaid ornament and the use of shield or heart shapes in chair backs, only became famous with the posthumous publication by his widow of his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788), containing nearly 300 designs. |
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