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2. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Eastlake published a book that contained illustrations of interior designs of incised wood panels and knobs to complement his furniture designs. American home builders expanded that to home exteriors by replacing flat-cut gingerbread ornamental elements with lathe-turned spindlework for balusters and wall surface decoration. However, Eastlake ...

3. Marquetry - Wikipedia

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   Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...

4. Tole painting - Wikipedia

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   Tole painting is the folk art of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture. Typical metal objects include utensils , coffee pots , and similar household items. Wooden objects include tables, chairs, and chests, including hope chests, toyboxes and jewelry boxes.

5. These Kitchen Paint Colors Range from Neutral to Wow!

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   Designer Fran Keenan painted the exterior trim of this historic Los Angeles home Farrow & Ball’s Castle Gray—a grayish green—and used the same color throughout the kitchen, including on the ...

6. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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   Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture, fittings, and interior decoration .

7. Khokhloma - Wikipedia

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   Khokhloma (also Hohloma, Russian: хохлома; Russian pronunciation: [xəxɫɐˈma]) or Khokhloma painting (хохломская роспись, hohlomskaya rospis) is a style of Russian art traditionally painted on wooden household items. It is known for its curved linear features depicting vivid small flowers, berries, grasses, and leaf ...

8. Millwork - Wikipedia

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   Several examples of different types of external decorative millwork are evident at an Erie Railway train station in Orange County, NY. Most wood products used for millwork require decorative finish coatings. These finishes include stain and semi-transparent finishes or paint. [1] The finishes protect the wood from decay, warping, splitting, and ...

9. Louis XVI style - Wikipedia

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   The decorative motifs of Louis XVI style were inspired by antiquity, the Louis XIV style, and nature.Characteristic elements of the style: a torch crossed with a sheath with arrows, imbricated disks, guilloché, double bow-knots, smoking braziers, linear repetitions of small motifs (rosettes, beads, oves), trophy or floral medallions hanging from a knotted ribbon, acanthus leaves, gadrooning ...