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Box-bed in Austria. A small box-bed (also known as a closed bed, close bed, or enclosed bed; less commonly, shut-bed [1]) is an enclosed bed made to look like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The box-bed is closed on all sides by panels of wood.
Other beds may have occupied the hall and kitchen, as well as the upstairs bedrooms. [2] Given the public locations of some beds, the decorated hangings also served as a show of wealth [3] and helped to keep warmth in. [4] Bed hangings in the second half of the 1600s through the first half of the 1700s were often embroidered with Jacobean motifs.
Bed rails are made of wood or metal and are attached to a headboard and footboard. Wooden slats are placed perpendicular to the bed rails to support the mattress/mattress box spring. Bed rails and frames are often attached to the bed post using knock-down fittings. [25] [26] A knock-down fitting enables the bed to be easily dismantled for ...
A tick mattress, bed tick or tick is a large bag made of strong, stiff, tightly-woven material [1] . This is then filled to make a mattress , with material such as straw, chaff , horsehair , coarse wool or down feathers , [ 2 ] : 674–5 vol1 and less commonly, leaves, grass, reeds, bracken, or seaweed. [ 3 ]
Four-poster bed Ornate Elizabethan four-poster bed Four-poster bed (lit à colonnes), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed [1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains ...
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 2] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e] [s 1] The ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Well, I have thought that on watching the composition we stop thinking and imagining. I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank ...