blockfront
furniture
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origination attributed to Goddard
- In Goddard Family
…credited with having originated the blockfront, or tub front (although the Townsends have an equally qualified claim to this style), a distinctive furniture front that is divided vertically through alternating convex (sides) and concave (centre) panels. His blockfront desks, secretaries, and cabinets usually have readily identifiable ogee bracket feet (also…
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