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2. Why Are Vaulted Ceilings So Controversial? Experts Weigh In - AOL

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   This style of vaulted ceiling is known as a cathedral ceiling. “Cathedral ceilings normally mirror the roof structure and have sides that slope and meet at a ridge in the center,” says Maggie ...

3. Ciborium (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   13th-century Yaroslavl Gospels, with curtained ciborium in the centre; a common motif in Evangelist portraits. Images and documentary mentions of early examples often have curtains called tetravela hung between the columns; these altar-curtains were used to cover and then reveal the view of the altar by the congregation at points during services — exactly which points varied, and is often ...

4. Maddermarket Theatre - Wikipedia

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   The ceiling was in the form of a plaster barrel-vault which gave the building its remarkable acoustic properties. The stage occupied nearly half the space. A pillared canopy was constructed from which to hang the painted curtains, which Monck used to effect very rapid scene changes.

5. Theater drapes and stage curtains - Wikipedia

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   The safety curtain or fire curtain is used to separate the stage from the audience in case of a fire onstage. It may be made of heavy fireproofed fabric or solid steel sheet. Some were made of asbestos cloth. After several deadly theater fires in the early 1900s, safety systems were developed to isolate the stage, direct smoke away from the ...

6. Buckingham Palace curtains in your home for Christmas? - AOL

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   The recycled curtain material - "delft blue floral, vintage rose and teal, and rich damask burnt orange drapery" - was of a style used between the 1950s and 1990s during the reign of Queen ...

7. Canopy bed - Wikipedia

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   Even in very modest homes, hanging a simple curtain across a room was not uncommon to shield the bed from cold drafts and create a division between living and sleeping spaces. Some late medieval European bed canopies with curtains were suspended from ceiling beams. In English, these canopies were known as a "hung celour".