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2. Kang bed-stove - Wikipedia

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   Kang. bed-stove. The kang ( Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold. It is made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of ...

3. Rural Khmer house - Wikipedia

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   Rural Khmer houses are a traditional house type of the Khmer people . Typically, rural Khmer two-story buildings, varying in size from 4 metres (13 ft) by 6 metres (20 ft) to about 6 by 10 metres (33 ft). The basic structure consists of a wooden frame, and the roof is erected before the walls on the upper floor are inserted.

4. Queen Anne style furniture - Wikipedia

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   Queen Anne furniture is "somewhat smaller, lighter, and more comfortable than its predecessors," and examples in common use include "curving shapes, the cabriole leg, cushioned seats, wing-back chairs, and practical secretary desk - bookcase pieces." [2] Other elements characterizing the style include pad feet and "an emphasis on line and form ...

5. Amish furniture - Wikipedia

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   Amish furniture-making is often a skill passed through many generations. Most Amish children rarely attend school beyond eighth grade, often to help out at home, or in the shops. Many families become known for their specific design details and niches. Some woodworkers focus only on outdoor furniture, others on pieces for the living room or bedroom.

6. Hanok - Wikipedia

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   Hanja. 朝鮮 집. Revised Romanization. Joseon. McCune–Reischauer. Chosŏn chip. A hanok ( Korean : 한옥; name in South Korea) or chosŏnjip ( 조선집; name in North Korea and for Koreans in Yanbian, China ), is a traditional Korean house. Hanok were first designed and built in the 14th century during the Joseon dynasty.

7. 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 .