Chippendale, THOMAS

Chippendale, THOMAS, came to London from Worcestershire before 1750, and was a successful cabinet-maker and upholsterer. The style of furniture named from him was less heavy and severe than that of his successors, and was rather elaborate, delicate, and baroque, with classical tendencies. He wrote a Cabinet-maker's Director (1752). All 18th-century furniture is often miscalled 'Chippendale.' See Clouston's Chippendale Period (1897).