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2. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Chairs had backs fixed to the lower frame of the seat. At the top of the back support of some chairs, there was a sphere with horns imitating a goat's or bull's head. In some seals, chairs are depicted with seats shaped like boxes. The chairs would have been 90 cm high, the seat and the back support would have been 45 cm (18 inches) high.

3. Arched Cabinets Are Everywhere: Here Are 4 Beautiful ... - AOL

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   Anthropologie’s Fern Wood Arch Wall Cabinet has three shelves and two drawers on the base of the cabinet, and its size is ideal for hanging on a bathroom wall or filling an entryway space ...

4. Wattle and daub - Wikipedia

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   Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important ...

5. Jettying - Wikipedia

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   The overhanging corner posts are often reinforced by curved jetty brackets. The origins of jettying are unclear but some reasons put forward for their purpose are: [6] to gain space. the structural advantage of the jettied wall counteracting forces in the joists or tying a stone wall together; to shelter the lower walls of the house from the ...

6. Corbel - Wikipedia

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   In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, [1] a type of bracket. [2] A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in ...

7. Bracket (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A classically detailed bracket at the chapel of Greenwich Hospital, London Bracket for a shelf or hanging items. A bracket is a structural or decorative architectural element that projects from a wall, usually to carry weight and sometimes to "strengthen an angle". [1] [2] It can be made of wood, stone, plaster, metal, or other media.