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  2. American Empire style - Wikipedia

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    Rosewood, mahogany, Bird's eye maple veneer, marble, ormolu, and leather. In the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. American Empire is a French -inspired Neoclassical style of American furniture and decoration that takes its name and originates from the Empire style introduced during the First French Empire period under Napoleon's rule.

  3. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture ...

  4. Empire style - Wikipedia

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    The Empire style (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.piːʁ], style Empire) is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 during the Consulate and the First French Empire periods, although its ...

  5. Art Nouveau furniture - Wikipedia

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    Art Nouveau furniture. Furniture created in the Art Nouveau style was prominent from the beginning of the 1890s to the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It characteristically used forms based on nature, such as vines, flowers and water lilies, and featured curving and undulating lines, sometimes known as the whiplash line, both in the ...

  6. Thomas Sheraton - Wikipedia

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    22 October 1806 (aged 54–55) London. A Sheraton style chair with rectangular back. Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) [1] was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. [2] Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized ...

  7. Domestic furnishing in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Furniture and furnishings in early modern and late medieval Scotland were made locally or imported, mostly from Flanders and France. Although few pieces of furniture survive from the early part of the period, a rich vocabulary and typology is preserved in inventories and wills. This documentary evidence in the Scots language details the homes ...

  8. Mission style furniture - Wikipedia

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    Mission furniture is a style of furniture that originated in the late 19th century. It traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church. The term mission furniture was first popularized by Joseph P. McHugh of New York, a furniture manufacturer and retailer who copied these chairs and offered ...

  9. Vitrine (historic furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Vitrine (historic furniture) Vitrines were a form of case furniture common from the 17th through the 19th centuries, which featured glass doors and windows used to display objects. [1] They were named for the vitreous glass material from which they were constructed. In French, vitrine can also refer to a contemporary display case with clear ...