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  2. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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    Bar furniture; Children's furniture; 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 ...

  3. Ince and Mayhew - Wikipedia

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    The following year Ince and Mayhew contributed some furniture designs to the joint production Household Furniture in Genteel Taste for the year 1760. By a Society of Upholsterers. Their designs helped to build the bridge between the massive and often florid style of Chippendale and the more slender and balanced forms of George Hepplewhite. [7]

  4. Thomas Chippendale - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Chippendale (June 1718 – 1779) was an English woodworker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director—the most important collection of furniture designs published in England to that point which created a mass market for ...

  5. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    During the Dynastic Period, which began in around 3200 BCE, Egyptian art developed significantly, and this included furniture design. [14] Egyptian furniture was primarily constructed using wood, but other materials were sometimes used, such as leather, [15] and pieces were often adorned with gold, silver, ivory and ebony, for decoration. [15]

  6. Lintel - Wikipedia

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    Many different building materials have been used for lintels. [3] In classical Western architecture and construction methods, by Merriam-Webster definition, a lintel is a load-bearing member and is placed over an entranceway. [3] The lintel may be called an architrave, but that term has alternative meanings that include more structure besides ...

  7. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    Of the bedsteads with heavy canopies and cornices, the Great Bed of Ware follows the styles, although it is a caricature in size. Sir Toby Belch speaks of this piece of furniture when he advises Sir Andrew Aguecheek : "And as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough for the Bed of Ware in England, set 'em ...

  8. Amish furniture - Wikipedia

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    Amish furniture-making is often a skill passed through many generations. Most Amish children rarely attend school beyond eighth grade, often to help out at home, or in the shops. Many families become known for their specific design details and niches. Some woodworkers focus only on outdoor furniture, others on pieces for the living room or bedroom.

  9. Louis XV furniture - Wikipedia

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    For a quarter of a century, the furniture designs of the rocaille style was dominant, particularly under the influence of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), the Italian-born architect who became royal architect and designer of Louis XV, and the ornament designer Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754). Under their influence, straight lines disappeared ...