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Kitchen design experts make the case for the glass-front cabinet trend and share tips for how to style them.
The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels. A shoji (障 （ しょう ） 子 （ じ ）, Japanese pronunciation:) is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent (or transparent) sheets on a
The Frankfurt kitchen was a narrow double-file kitchen measuring 1.9 m × 3.4 m (6.2 ft × 11.2 ft). [10] The entrance was located in one of the short walls, opposite which was the window. Along the left side, the stove was placed, followed by a sliding door connecting the kitchen to the dining and living room.
Sliding doors and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions. People usually sat on cushions or otherwise on the floor, traditionally; chairs and high tables were not widely used until the 20th century.
In the L-kitchen, the cabinets occupy two adjacent walls. Again, the work triangle is preserved, and there may even be space for an additional table at a third wall, provided it does not intersect the triangle. A U-kitchen has cabinets along three walls, typically with the sink at the base of the "U". This is a typical work kitchen, too, unless ...
Door furniture; Hutch; Park furniture (such as benches and picnic tables) Stadium seating; Street furniture; Sword furniture – on Japanese swords (katana, wakizashi, tantō) all parts save the blade are referred to as "furniture". In firearms, parts aside from the action and barrel, such as the grip, stock, butt, and comb.
The General Post Office Building, Sydney, by James Barnet is in the Venetian Renaissance style. 1866-80. A major 19th-century architect to work extensively in the Palazzo style was Edmund Blacket. Blacket arrived in Sydney, Australia, just a few years before the discovery of gold in NSW and Victoria in 1851. Within the next decade he built the ...
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