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2. Italian Renaissance interior design - Wikipedia

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   Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. [1] Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables).

3. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Neoclassical architecture in Tuscany - Wikipedia

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   Pasquale Poccianti, Cisternone, Livorno. Neoclassical architecture in Tuscany established itself between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century within a historical-political framework substantially aligned with the one that affected the rest of the Italian peninsula, while nonetheless developing original features.

5. Donghia - Wikipedia

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   Donghia is an American brand of decoration for furniture, textiles, lighting, and accessories. Italian-American interior designer Angelo Donghia founded Donghia in 1968. It is currently owned by Kravet Inc. [1] Donghia collections include textiles, furniture, wallcoverings, case pieces, accessories and upholstery. Manufactured in the United ...

6. Studiolo of Francesco I - Wikipedia

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   It was commissioned by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It was completed for the duke from 1570 to 1572, by teams of artists under the supervision of Giorgio Vasari and the scholars Giovanni Batista Adriani and Vincenzo Borghini. This small room was part-office, part-laboratory, part-hiding place, and part-cabinet of curiosities ...

7. Italy is paying people as much as $32,000 to relocate to its ...

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   It might sound too good to be true, but the Tuscan authorities kicked off a program in June aimed at just that. The scheme pays people between €10,000 ($10,700) and €30,000 ($32,090) for ...