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During this time, MACC gained accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1990, the school was renamed Moberly Area Community College. [3] Major campus improvements include the $2.5 Million dollar Fine Arts wing constructed in 1984, providing a new library, classrooms, 600-seat auditorium, and Student Commons area.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, French furniture of the classic period 1660-1815, has been collected as passionately by non-French amateurs, with the English in the historical lead, [1] and has set record prices consistently, since the Hamilton Palace sale of 1882, [2] with the result that it is represented in many national museums.
Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles , Palace of Fontainebleau , the Tuileries Palace , and other royal residences.
Antique furniture may support the human body (such as seating or beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. [ 3 ]
In sophisticated urban environments, walnut was a frequent choice for furniture in the Queen Anne style, [5] superseding the previously dominant oak and leading to the era being called "the age of walnut." [6] However, poplar, cherry, and maple were also used in Queen Anne style furniture. [11]
The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle , a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...
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.
André-Charles Boulle (11 November 1642 – 29 February 1732), [1] le joailler du meuble (the "furniture jeweller"), [2] became the most famous French cabinetmaker and the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, [3] also known as "inlay". [4] Boulle was "the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers". [5]