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2. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Loo tables were very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries as candlestands, tea tables, or small dining tables, although they were originally made for the popular card game loo or lanterloo. Their typically round or oval tops have a tilting mechanism , which enables them to be stored out of the way (e.g. in room corners) when not in use.

3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Tables were rare in ancient Egypt. The earliest Egyptian tables were carved from stone and made with very low projections to keep the table surface off the ground. Later, in the Old Kingdom, tables would develop longer legs and be braced with a stretcher between them. The most common tables were either round, square, or oblong.

4. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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   Chinese home furniture evolved independently of Western furniture into many similar forms, including chairs, tables, stools, cupboards, cabinets, beds and sofas. Until about the 10th century CE, the Chinese sat on mats or low platforms using low tables, but then gradually moved to using high tables with chairs. [2]

5. Art Nouveau furniture - Wikipedia

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   The first Art Nouveau houses appeared in Brussels in 1893, including the Hotel Tassel designed by Victor Horta.Horta designed not only the house and decor but also the furniture, which featured the same nature-inspired curling whiplash lines which were featured in the architecture, wrought iron balcony and stairway railings, ceramic floors, and door handles.

6. Club foot (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A Windsor Georgian Double Bow chair with pad-footed cabriole legs at the front. The back legs are plain. A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. [1] [2] It is also known by the alternative names pad foot [3] [4] [5] and Dutch foot, [4] [5] the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. [6]

7. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   The variety of Byzantine furniture is pretty big: tables with square, rectangle or round top, sumptuous decorated, made of wood sometimes inlaid, with bronze, ivory or silver ornaments; chairs with high backs and with wool blankets or animal furs, with coloured pillows, and then banks and stools; wardrobes were used only for storing books ...