WILLIAM

See also:

• WILLIAM INCE

INCE  , English 18th century furniture designer and cabinetmaker . He was one of the most successful imitators of Chippendale, although his work was in many respects lighter . He helped, indeed, to build the bridge between the massive andoften florid style of Chippendale and the more boudoir-like forms of Hepplewhite . Although many of his designs were poor and extravagant, his best work was very good indeed . His chairs are sometimes mistaken for those of Chippendale, to which, however, they are much inferior . He greatly affected the Chinese and Gothic tastes of the second half of the 18th century . He was for many years in partnership in Broad Street, Golden Square, London, with Thomas Mayhew (q.v.), in collaboration with whom he published a folio volume of ninety-five plates, with letterpress in English and French under the title of The Universal System of Household Furniture (undated, but probably about 1762) . INCE-IN-MAKERFIELD, an urban district in the Ince parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, adjoining the borough of Wigan . Pop . (1901) 21,262 . The Leeds and Liverpool Canal intersects the township . There are large collieries, iron-works, forges, railway wagon works, and cotton mills .

There is preserved here the Old

Hall, a beautiful example of half-timbered architecture .