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In earlier times when English spelling was less standardized, "spinet" was sometimes spelled "spinnet" or "spinnit". "Spinet" is standard today. Spinet derives from the Italian spinetta , which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan / Jacobean English were called virginals .
The spinnerets of an Australian garden orb weaver spider. Black spinneret of Phidippus adumbratus visible below red abdomen. A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.
A number of pattern books have been very influential in spreading architectural styles. An early author of pattern books was American architect Minard Lafever. In 1829 he published The Young Builders' General Instructor, followed by Modern Builders' Guide in 1833, The Beauties of Modern Architecture in 1835 and The Architectural Instructor in
Princeton Architectural Press (now PA Press) is a division of Chronicle Books. [2]Founded by Kevin Lippert [3] in 1981 in Princeton, NJ, PA Press has been a leading publisher of books on architecture, design, and visual culture for over forty years, making its reputation by identifying new trends and publishing first books on emerging talents, as well as definitive works on established names ...
A spinet desk is an antique desk with an exterior shape similar to a writing table, but slightly higher and is fitted with a single drawer under the whole length of the flat top surface.
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Pattern in architecture is the idea of capturing architectural design ideas as archetypal and reusable descriptions. The term pattern in this context is usually attributed to Christopher Alexander, [1] an Austrian born American architect. The patterns serve as an aid to design cities and buildings. The concept of having collections of "patterns ...