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2. Arched Cabinets Are Everywhere: Here Are 4 Beautiful ... - AOL

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   Anthropologie’s Fern Wood Arch Wall Cabinet has three shelves and two drawers on the base of the cabinet, and its size is ideal for hanging on a bathroom wall or filling an entryway space ...

3. Clerestory - Wikipedia

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   The nave and aisles are separated by columns or piers, above which rises a wall pierced by clerestory windows. Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The nave wall is divided into three stages: the upper stage with windows is the clerestory, beneath it is the triforium, and the lowest stage is the arcade.

4. Headboard (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Historically, headboards served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed to create space from the wall (via thicker end pillars), they allowed falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed. [1]

5. Tympanum (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s. A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. [1]

6. Pediment - Wikipedia

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   A variant is the "segmental" or "arch" pediment, where the normal angular slopes of the cornice are replaced by one in the form of a segment of a circle, in the manner of a depressed arch. [10] Both traditional and segmental pediments have "broken" and "open" forms. In the broken pediment the raking cornice is left open at the apex. [11]

7. Chest of drawers - Wikipedia

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   Chest of drawers from the 18th century, collection King Baudouin Foundation. A chest of drawers, also called (especially in North American English) a dresser or a bureau, [1] is a type of cabinet (a piece of furniture) that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers generally stacked one above another.

8. Vestibule (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A floor plan with a modern vestibule shown in red. A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, air-lock entry or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space [1] such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.

9. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   They had small wheels to be moved around easily, had a locked compartment under the sloping top surface, and shelves below for large documents. [ 22 ] The Secretaire en armoire was a larger and more vertical variation, based on the form of an armoire; it was a large chest with a writing surface that folded down and drawers and shelves inside.