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A brick chimney breast. A chimney breast is a portion of a chimney which projects forward from a wall to accommodate a fireplace. [1] Typically on the ground floor of a structure, the masonry extends upwards, containing a flue which carries smoke out of the building through a chimney stack. [2]
Exterior walls - front Flemish bond with black glazed headers; west elevation in alternating header and stretcher rows; the end walls form gables as settings for the wide chimney breast Interior walls - Plaster; left side of hall wide tongued groved boards, most fireplace ends paneled
A man's fight against eviction from the condemned house where he has lived alone since his wife disappeared 15 years before, becomes more understandable when the mummified cadaver of a woman is found bricked up between the wall and chimney breast of his fireplace. In such an open-and-shut case, why will he not even say a word? Privilege
Studio Dorion covered this chimney breast in a Brooklyn home with mirrored panels, a look that transforms the antique fireplace into something edgy and fresh. Ethan Herrington Asymmetrical Fireplace
The English chimneypieces of the early seventeenth century, when the purer Italian style was introduced by Inigo Jones, were extremely simple in design, sometimes consisting only of the ordinary mantel piece, with classic architraves and shelf, the upper part of the chimney breast being paneled like the rest of the room.
The fireplace wall has an ornate chimney breast. On either side of the fireplace are beaufats, these ones with shallower shelves than in the little parlour, and no doors. Classical broken pediments top the chimney breast and the beaufats. The floor was made of carefully matched blind-doweled planks, an expensive feature.
They open into a large reception hall with tiled floor, and curving staircase. The pointed-arch motif is repeated in the door panels, banister spindles and on the chimney breasts of the fireplaces. The living room is the size of a ballroom, with exposed beams on its 13-foot (4.0 m) ceilings and an exposed chimney. [2]
The reconstruction added an extensive chimney breast to the fireplace in the room's west wall. [19] The State Dining Room was extensively furnished at this time. President James Monroe, rather than First Lady Elizabeth Monroe (who was in fragile physical health), was primarily responsible for making decorative decisions for the White House. [15]