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2. Transitional Style - Wikipedia

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   While retaining some classical elements like crown molding and traditional furniture forms, transitional design simplifies these features to create spaces that feel both refined and welcoming. Unlike contemporary design, which evolves with current trends, transitional style maintains consistent principles focused on merging formal architectural ...

3. French furniture - Wikipedia

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   Secrétaire à abattant by Jean-François Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris). French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities and towns many of which, like Lyon and Liège, retained cultural identities ...

4. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   The Sumerian bed was a wooden bed on a wooden frame. The bed frame was a tall head-board decorated with pictures of birds and flowers. [ 9 ] Sometimes the bed's leg would be inlaid with precious metals and shaped to look like animal's paws. [ 2 ]

5. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   The Great Bed in Saracen's Head. Grecian columns of singular disproportion form the main structure of bedsteads, tables, and cabinets. These columns are noted for their clumsy thickness, and in one of the first misapprehensions of the classic that mark the style, they rise from huge spherical clusters of foliage, usually the acanthus .

6. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...

7. Triclinium - Wikipedia

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   As in many houses in Pompeii, here the smaller dining room (triclinium minus) forms a suite with the adjoining cubiculum and bath. In later republican times, after the introduction of round tables of citrus wood , the three couches were replaced by one of crescent shape (called sigma from the form of the Greek letter), which as a rule was only ...