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2. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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   Ormolu. A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra at the Palace of Versailles in France. Ormolu ( / ˈɔːrməˌluː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a ...

3. Dressing table - Wikipedia

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   Dressing table (ca. 1815–1830) The dressing table (also a vanity table or simply a vanity, [ 1] in Australian English, a duchess) is a table specifically designed for performing one's toilette (dressing, applying makeup and other personal grooming ), [ 2] intended for a bedroom or a boudoir. [ 3]

4. Louis XIV furniture - Wikipedia

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   Louis XIV furniture. Cabinet on a stand by André-Charles Boulle (1675–80). Oak veneered with pewter, brass, tortoise shell, horn, ebony, ivory, and wood marquetry; bronze mounts; figures of painted and gilded oak; drawers of snakewood (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with ...

5. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Table (furniture) A gilded Baroque table, with a stone top (most probably marble), from the Cinquantenaire Museum ( Brussels, Belgium) Rococo writing table; 1759; lacquered oak, gilt-bronze mounts and lined with modern leather; height: 80.6 cm, width: 175.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A table is an item of furniture with a ...

6. Art Deco - Wikipedia

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   Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs ( lit. 'Decorative Arts' ), [ 1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I ), [ 2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and ...

7. Art Nouveau furniture - Wikipedia

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   Art Nouveau furniture. Furniture created in the Art Nouveau style was prominent from the beginning of the 1890s to the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It characteristically used forms based on nature, such as vines, flowers and water lilies, and featured curving and undulating lines, sometimes known as the whiplash line, both in the ...