Thomas Chippendale ("ca" June 5 1718 - November 1779) was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. He went to London in 1749 where, in 1754, he became the first cabinet-maker to publish a book of his designs, titled "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director." Three editions were published, the first in 1754, followed by a virtual reprint in 1755, … Wikipedia
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Source: Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779) The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste. digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.ChippGentCab
Chippendale was born in 1718 in Yorkshire to a carpenter father and apart from the fact that he married Catherine Redshaw in 1748 little else is known about his life. www.collecting20thcentury.com/articles/Thomas-Chippendale...
The Chippendale Society's aims are to advance public education and promote the appreciation and study of the work of Thomas Chippendale senior and junior and to acquire, preserve and maintain examples of his work for the benefit of the nation. The Societ www.thechippendalesociety.co.uk/index.htm