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The renovation replaced most of the guest-room and public space furniture with antiques, and original American artwork from the past 200 years graced walls throughout the hotel. Williams also built an extensive collection of documents signed by the hotel's namesake, Thomas Jefferson.
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.
The earliest used seating furniture in the dynastic period was the stool, which was used throughout Egyptian society, from the royal family down to ordinary citizens. [19] Various different designs were used, including stools with four vertical legs, and others with crossed splayed legs; almost all had rectangular seats, however. [ 19 ]
Furniture was another important domain of the Art Nouveau. In some cases the architects themselves designed the furniture to match the exterior and interior decoration of the house, based on sinuous and curving lines and other forms based upon nature. This was the case of the Hôtel Guimard, the residence of Hector Guimard. The objective of ...
The Richway in Forest Park is now the Scott Antique Market, still with the open wedge skylights and much of the original prototype. The Richway in north Marietta is today an office for Wellstar (which owns nearby Kennestone Hospital ), since the Target moved a few miles northeast on Sandy Plains Road, not long after the Town Center at Cobb ...
The founder of R A Lister and Company was Robert Ashton Lister, who was born in 1845. [1] He led the exhibit of the family's products to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, [2] but on return fell out with his father, [citation needed] and in the same year founded R.A.Lister and Company [3] in the former Howard's Lower Mill, Water Street in Dursley to manufacture agricultural machinery.