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2. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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   The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle , a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...

3. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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   Eastlake's book Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details posited that furniture and decor in people's homes should be made by hand or machine workers who took personal pride in their work. Manufacturers in the United States used the drawings and ideas in the book to create mass-produced Eastlake Style or Cottage ...

4. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...

5. “History Cool Kids”: 91 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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   Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...

6. Cook Islands art - Wikipedia

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   The proximity of islands in the southern group helped produce a homogeneous style of carving but which had special developments in each island. Rarotonga is known for its fisherman's gods and staff-gods, Atiu for its wooden seats, Mitiaro, Mauke and Atiu for mace and slab gods and Mangaia for its ceremonial adzes. Most of the original wood ...

7. John Jelliff - Wikipedia

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   One of the best-known undertakings of Jelliff & Miller is a parlor suite from the 1870s, consisting of a sofa, armchair and four side chairs, now in the Ballentine House, which adjoins the Newark Museum. Jelliff's crowning achievement in carved furniture is the bishop's throne, dating to about 1850, in Newark's St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ...