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2. Console table - Wikipedia

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   The bracket supports are frequently highly decorative. A console table is a table whose top surface is supported by corbels or brackets rather than by the usual four legs. [1] It is thus similar to a supported shelf and is not designed to serve as a stand-alone surface. It is frequently used as pier table (which may have legs of any variety ...

3. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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   The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715–1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and asymmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Louis XIV style. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three distinct periods.

4. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Tables can be freestanding or designed for placement against a wall. Tables designed to be placed against a wall are known as pier tables [9] or console table s (French: console, "support bracket") and may be bracket-mounted (traditionally), like a shelf, or have legs, which sometimes imitate the look of a bracket-mounted table.

5. State Dining Room of the White House - Wikipedia

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   The State Dining Room after renovation in 2015. The State Dining Room is the larger of two dining rooms on the State Floor of the Executive Residence of the White House, the home of the president of the United States in Washington, D.C. It is used for receptions, luncheons, larger formal dinners, and state dinners for visiting heads of state on ...

6. A. H. Davenport and Company - Wikipedia

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   Davenport & Co. executed Stanford White's furniture designs for the State Dining Room. These consisted of two neo-Georgian-style dining tables, six William-and-Mary-style armchairs, fifty Queen-Anne-style side chairs, a long serving table supported by carved-eagle pedestals, [23] and two matching console tables. [24]

7. Pier table - Wikipedia

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   A pier table made in Boston, Massachusetts, between 1815 and 1825. A pier table is a table designed to be placed against a wall, either between two windows [1] or between two columns. [2] It is also known as a console table ( French: console, "support bracket"), although furniture historians differentiate the two types, not always consistently.