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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Asian furniture - Wikipedia

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    Asian furniture. Japanese chair made from carved Zelkora wood with stencilled leather upholstery. The term Asian furniture, or sometimes Oriental furniture, refers to a type of furniture that originated in the continent of Asia. Sometimes people also think of Asian furniture as a style of furniture that has Asian accents.

  5. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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    The most common theories are that the chair was an outgrowth of indigenous Chinese furniture, that it evolved from a camp stool imported from Central Asia, that it was introduced to China by Nestorian missionaries in the seventh century, and that the chair came to China from India as a form of Buddhist monastic furniture. [9] In China today ...

  6. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    Furniture could also be made from dense hardwoods and softwoods. [136] Most wooden furniture in Ancient China was lacquered. Joinery was also common in ancient Chinese and Indian furniture. [97] Mortise and tenon joints were very common in Chinese furniture. [137] The huchaung was a consolable folding chair.

  7. Chinese lacquerware table - Wikipedia

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    Chinese lacquerware table. This carved lacquerware table in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It is unique in shape and decoration and is one of the most important objects from the period. It is one of the few surviving examples in the world of a major piece of furniture produced in the 'Orchard ...

  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. Chinese Furniture Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Furniture Museum ( traditional Chinese: 中國家具博物館; simplified Chinese: 中国家具博物馆; pinyin: Zhōngguó Jiājù Bówùguǎn) or China's Furniture Museum [1] is a museum in Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The museum's purpose is to continue and promote the culture of traditional Chinese furniture and to ...

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