Give Legs a Kick With Dazzling Inlay

摘要

Learning to design furniture means building your own visual vocabulary. You can glean these tidbits from nature and your surroundings, but also by studying furniture of the past. I love details in furniture, and I enjoy seeing how past designers used small details to draw a viewer's eye around a piece. The exuberance of inlay on many Federal-style pieces always caught my eye, especially the inlaid panels at the tops of legs or prominent on front aprons.