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2. Rustic furniture - Wikipedia

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   Rustic coffee table with cedar and mountain laurel branches. The rustic furniture movement developed during the mid- to late-1800s. John Gloag in A Short Dictionary Of Furniture says that "chairs and seats, with the framework carved to resemble the branches of trees, were made in the middle years of the 18th century, and there was a popular fashion for this naturalistic rustic furniture" in ...

3. Teak furniture - Wikipedia

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   The teak tree is common in Southeast Asia. Teak is a hardwood that is particularly resistant to different types of climate, making it suitable for shipbuilding and for furniture. [1] Teak furniture can remain outdoors in any climate year round, and can be left unfinished or protected. Plantation teak wood can be considered eco-friendly due to ...

4. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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   Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used ...

5. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A formally laid table, set with a dinner service. Nested tables. Tables of various shapes, heights, and sizes are designed for specific uses: Dining room tables are designed to be used for formal dining. Bedside tables, nightstands, or night tables are small tables used in a bedroom.

6. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Tables could have circular tops, and four legs or even one central leg instead of three. Tables in ancient Greece were used mostly for dining purposes – in depictions of banquets, it appears as though each participant would have utilized a single table, rather than a collective use of a larger piece.

7. Art Nouveau in Brussels - Wikipedia

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   The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe.It began as a reaction against the formal vocabulary of European academic art, eclecticism and historicism of the 19th century, and was based upon an innovative use of new materials, such as iron and glass, to open larger interior ...