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  2. Triclinium - Wikipedia

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    Triclinium. A triclinium (pl.: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building. [1] The word is adopted from the Greek triklinion (τρικλίνιον)—from tri- (τρι-), "three", and klinē (κλίνη), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue. Each couch was sized to accommodate a diner who reclined on their left side on cushions ...

  3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    All furniture was low, remaining within reach of a person sitting on the floor. This was because most Japanese people sat on the floor instead of using chairs or tables. In many parts of the world, cultures sat on the floor instead of using chairs and tables in order to gain easier movement and look at the world from a different perspective.

  4. Curule seat - Wikipedia

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    A curule seat probably designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, made in carved wood and gilded ca. 1810 in Berlin, later restored and reupholstered by a private dealer. A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century.

  5. List of furniture types - Wikipedia

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    Aquarium furniture. 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".

  6. 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.

  7. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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    Classic Chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods, known collectively as "rosewood" (紅木, literally "red wood"). These woods are denser than water, fine grained, and high in oils and resins. These properties make them dimensionally stable, hardwearing, rot and insect resistant, and when new, highly fragrant.

  8. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks ...

  9. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    A good deal of inlaid work was then used, and the carving did its best to reach and render the ideas of the cinquecento. It is, indeed, styled the cinquecento period of English art, every surface being rough with arabesques of griffins , vases, rosettas, dolphins, scrolls, foliages, Cupids, and mermaids with double tails curling round them on ...

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