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MANWARING, ROBERT
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See also:MANWARING, See also:ROBERT , See also:English 18th-See also:century See also:furniture designer and See also:cabinet maker. The See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death are unknown. He was a contemporary and imitator of See also:Chippendale, and not the least considerable of his rivals. He prided himself upon See also:work which he described as " genteel," and his speciality was chairs. He manifests the same surprising See also:variations of quality that are noticed in the work of nearly all the English cabinet-makers of the second See also:half of the 18th century, and while his best had an undeniable elegance his worst was exceedingly See also:bad—squat, See also:ill-proportioned and confused. Some of his chairbacks are so nearly identical with Chippendale's that it is difficult to suppose that the one did not copy from the other, and most of the designs of the greater See also:man enjoyed priority of date. During a portion of his career Manwaring was a devotee of the See also:Chinese See also:taste; he likewise practised in the See also:Gothic manner. He appears to have introduced the small See also:bracket between the front See also:rail of the seat and the See also:top of the See also:chair See also:leg, or at all events to have made such See also:constant use of it that it has come to be regarded as characteristic of his work. Manwaring described certain of his own work as " elegant and superb," and as possessing " grandeur and magnificence." He did not confine himself to furniture but produced many designs for rustic See also:gates and railings, often very extravagant. One of his most absurd rural chairs has See also:rock-work with a See also:waterfall in the back. Among Manwaring's writings were The Cabinet and Chair Makers' Real Friend. and See also:Companion, or the Whole See also:System of Chairmaking Made See also:Plain and Easy (1765); The Carpenters' Compleat See also:Guide to Gothic Railing (1765); and The Chair-makers' Guide (1766). End of Article: MANWARING, ROBERTAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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