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2. A. H. Davenport and Company - Wikipedia

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   Davenport & Co. made the twin dining tables, 50 side chairs, 6 armchairs and 3 serving tables for the room. Many of the side chairs, now upholstered in ivory, are still in use. A. H. Davenport and Company was a late 19th-century, early 20th-century American furniture manufacturer, cabinetmaker, and interior decoration firm.

3. Trencher (tableware) - Wikipedia

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   The Middle Ages, Everyday Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffrey L. Singman (Sterling publishers) offers the following observation: "The place setting also included a trencher, a round slice of bread from the bottom or the top of an old loaf, having a hard crust and serving as a plate. After the meal, the sauce-soaked trenchers were probably ...

4. List of chairs - Wikipedia

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   The oldest known depiction of dining chairs is a seventh-century BCE bas-relief of an Assyrian king and queen on very high chairs. [20] Diamond Lounge Chair, designed by Harry Bertoia for Knoll; Director's chair, [21] a lightweight chair that folds side-to-side with a scissors action. The seat and back are made of canvas or a similar strong ...

5. “History Cool Kids”: 91 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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   Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...

6. Dining room - Wikipedia

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   A dining room. A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually next to the kitchen for convenience in serving, though in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and several dining chairs. The most common shape is ...

7. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   Baroque pier table; 1685–1690; carved, gessoed, and gilded wood, with a marble top; 83.6 × 128.6 × 71.6 cm; Art Institute of Chicago (US) [56] Baroque cupboard; by André Charles Boulle ; c. 1700; ebony and amaranth veneering, polychrome woods, brass, tin, shell, and horn marquetry on an oak frame, gilt-bronze; 255.5 x 157.5 cm; Louvre [ 57 ]