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2. Bombay furniture - Wikipedia

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   Bombay furniture has influences from England, France, and Holland. In 1850 there were six main furniture shops in Bombay, with five to ten workmen in each shop. [2] The wood used is Shisham or blackwood , a hard-grained dark-colored timber which with proper treatment assumes a beautiful natural polish. The blackwood was often brought from ...

3. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   Another small table was the cabaret or á café table, with a small marble top and long legs, on which coffee or drinks could be served. The version introduced in 1770 featured geometric designs and a neoclassical frieze around the plateau. [16] Another popular type of small table was the Table de toilette, or dressing table.

4. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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   The console table also made its first appearance; it was designed to be placed against a wall. Another new type of furniture was the table à gibier , a marble-topped table for holding dishes. Early varieties of the desk appeared; the Mazarin desk had a central section set back, placed between two columns of drawers, with four feet on each column.

5. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   The console table, which had first appeared under Louis XV, was designed to be against or attached to the wall, and was often made by the same menuisiers who created the wooden wall panelling. It was decorated only on the front and sides. The top was made of marble or other stone, and was either rectangular of half-moon shaped.

6. Commode - Wikipedia

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   French commode, by Gilles Joubert, circa 1735, made of oak and walnut, veneered with tulipwood, ebony, holly, other woods, gilt bronze and imitation marble, in the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States) A British commode, circa 1772, marquetry of various woods, bronze and gilt-bronze mounts, overall: 95.9 × 145.1 × 51.9 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

7. Chest of drawers - Wikipedia

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   The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers". At the ...