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  2. Molding (decorative) - Wikipedia

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    Chamfer: Beveled edge between two adjacent surfaces; Chin-beak: Concave quarter-round moulding, rare in ancient buildings, more common today. [1] Corner guard: Used to protect the edge of the wall at an outside corner, or to cover a joint on an inside corner. Cornice: Generally any horizontal decorative moulding

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 .

  5. Carpenter Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Ferrey House, Kent, Ohio, an example of Downing's Form III Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado) Springside in Poughkeepsie, New York Christ Church, Fort Meade, Florida Oak Hill Cottage, Mansfield, Ohio: Carpenter Gothic trim on a brick house in the manner of A.J. Davis's Rural Residences The Seth House in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Built in 1882

  6. Faux painting - Wikipedia

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    Faux finishing has been used for millennia, from cave painting to the tombs of ancient Egypt, but what we generally think of as faux finishing in the decorative arts began with plaster and stucco finishes in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago. Faux painting became popular in classical times in the forms of faux marble, faux wood, and trompe-l ...

  7. Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings - Wikipedia

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    In England, a painter Leonard Fryer made an equivalent use of "sweet varnish" to enhance imitation wood graining at Oatlands Palace. [7] The designs seem to have been painted freehand, excepting only motifs on ceiling boards at Riddle's Court which seemed to have been traced, perhaps by "pouncing" patterns. [8]

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...

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