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Jamaican Georgian architecture is an architectural style that was popular in Jamaica between c. 1750 and c. 1850. [1] It married the elegance of Georgian styling with functional features designed to weather Jamaica's tropical climate. [2] It was used at all levels in society, from the most important public buildings to humble domestic dwellings.
A Rastafarian man in a rastacap at a port of Jamaica's Black River.. Originating in the 1930s, [6] one of the most prominent, internationally known aspects of Jamaica's African-Caribbean culture is the Rastafari movement, particularly those elements that are expressed through reggae music.
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement [citation needed].
J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building is a historic commercial building in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was built in 1931 and is a six-story, steel-frame building with two decorated sides in the Art Deco style. It is three bays by six bays and features a metal-framed windows with stepped pylon motif rising through all four ...
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The Empire style of furniture featured its use extensively, and the Federal Style (1780–1830) in American furniture design is essentially a mahogany style. [15] Mell's paper of 1917 refers to its extensive use in the early 20th century, but its importance for some purposes has diminished.
Margaret L. Chen (born 1951) is a Jamaican sculptor of Chinese descent. Many of her pieces, such as the Steppe series, reflect aspects of her heritage. [1]Chen was educated at the Jamaica School of Art and Crafts and after graduating she moved to Canada to pursue further study at York University.