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2. Queen Anne style furniture - Wikipedia

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   Queen Anne furniture is "somewhat smaller, lighter, and more comfortable than its predecessors," and examples in common use include "curving shapes, the cabriole leg, cushioned seats, wing-back chairs, and practical secretary desk-bookcase pieces."

3. Ercol - Wikipedia

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   The company sources fabrics from mills in Italy and Belgium, offering a choice of over 100 different options for its upholstery. Because Ercol's upholstery is designed with solid wood frames, it is possible to replace worn-out cushions and other components, prolonging the life of the products.

4. Ethan Allen (company) - Wikipedia

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   The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.

5. Shaker furniture - Wikipedia

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   The plain style origins of shaker furniture connect back to the craft traditions of colonial New York and New England. The furniture brought into early Shaker society were the humble possessions of common people of the day such as farmers mechanics and small tradesman. In the 1790s the total membership of the United Society totaled a thousand.

6. Homespun movement - Wikipedia

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   A New England kitchen, engraving in A Brief History of the United States (1885) by Joel Dorman Steele. The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. [1]

7. Blue Room (White House) - Wikipedia

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   The sapphire-blue silk fabric used for the draperies and furniture upholstery was chosen by Hillary Clinton. The silk lampas upholstery fabric retains the gold eagle medallion on the chair backs, which was adapted from the depiction of one of the Monroe-era chairs in a portrait of James Monroe. The painting, however, depicts the chair ...