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  2. Water table (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A water table is a projection of lower masonry on the outside of a wall, slightly above the ground, or at the top of a wainscot section of a wall (in this case also known as a sill). It is both a functional and architectural feature that consists of a projection that deflects water running down the face of a building away from lower courses or ...

  3. Socle (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In English, the term tends to be most used for the bases for rather small sculptures, with plinth or pedestal preferred for larger examples. [1] This is not the case in French. In the field of archaeology this term refers to a wall base, frequently of stone, that supports the upper part of the wall, which is made of a different material ...

  4. Pedestal - Wikipedia

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    The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings) [citation needed]. It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or raised floor. In sculpting, the terms base, plinth, and pedestal are defined according to their subtle differences.

  5. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient furniture was made from many different materials, including reeds, wood, stone, metals, straws, and ivory.It could also be decorated in many different ways. Sometimes furniture would be covered with upholstery, upholstery being padding, springs, webbing, and

  6. Art Nouveau furniture - Wikipedia

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    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 form and the decoration.

  7. Plinth (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Plinth may refer to: Plinth, a base especially for statues, steles, etc. Plinth (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph; Plinth Peak, of the Cascade Volcanic Arc

  8. Fourth plinth - Wikipedia

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    The annual Fourth Plinth Schools Award is the education project within the Mayor of London's Fourth Plinth Programme. The award uses the Fourth Plinth as an inspiration to engage primary and secondary schools in London to enter a competition that encourages creative thinking around past and present artworks displayed on the Fourth Plinth. [42]

  9. The End (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    The End (stylised in all caps) is a sculpture by British artist Heather Phillipson, which was installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, London, from 2020 to 2022. [1] The sculpture depicted a gigantic dollop of melting whipped cream, topped with a cherry, with a fly and a functioning drone scaling its surface.