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During these two periods, the vogue for medieval things led craftsmen to adopt Gothic decorative motifs in their work, such as bell turrets, lancet arches, trefoils, Gothic tracery and rose windows. This style was also as "Cathedral style" ("À la catédrale") or " Troubadour style " ("style troubadour").
Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1877–1880) is a piece of Modern Gothic furniture now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although its design was once attributed to Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and furniture maker Daniel Pabst , MMA now credits its design and manufacture to Pabst alone.
Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards, shelves, and drawers). Furniture can be a product of design and can be considered a form of decorative art.
There was a little while ago quite a rage for a certain style of furniture that made a great display of seeming steel hinges, key-plates, and handles, with inlaid tiles, carving of an ultra-Gothic type, and an appearance of the ingenuous truth-telling in the construction.
Pointed arch windows of Gothic buildings were initially (late 12th–late 13th centuries) lancet windows, a solution typical of the Early Gothic or First Pointed style and of the Early English Gothic. [1] [5] Plate tracery was the first type of tracery to be developed, emerging in the style called High Gothic. [1]
The importation of furniture into England from Flanders and Holland was so significant that a hundred years earlier a law was enacted forbidding the practice — nevertheless carved woodwork was one of the important articles of commerce with the Low Countries, and the country homes of England of this period were filled with articles of Dutch ...
The contrast between Romanesque and Gothic concepts in religious buildings can be understood in the epistolary between St. Bernard, Cistercian, and the Abbot Suger of the order of Cluny, the initiator of Gothic art in St. Denis. One of the most beautiful works of Romanesque Cistercian is the Sénanque Abbey in Provence.
Gothic House, Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, 1774 [citation needed] Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, Berlin, 1824–30; Castle in Kamenz (now Kamieniec Ząbkowicki in Poland), 1838–65 [citation needed] Burg Hohenzollern, 1850–67; Completion of Cologne Cathedral, 1842–80; New Town Hall, Munich, 1867–1909; St. Agnes, Cologne, 1896–1901