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Bosendorfer Chippendale Grand Piano
Chippendale, Thomas 1718-79, celebrated English cabinetmaker. His designs
were so widely followed that a whole general category of 18th-century English
furniture is commonly grouped under his name. Chippendale's Gentleman and
Cabinet-Maker's Director, an illustrated trade catalog first published in
1754, was widely influential in England and America. While he based his work
upon the general Queen Anne and Georgian characteristics of sober design and
thoroughly fine construction, retaining many of the early 18th-century details,
Chippendale's distinction was to introduce many other forms. For these he
used three outside inspirations-Chinese, Gothic, and contemporaneous French
rococo