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His furniture is known for fine craftsmanship, a mix of traditional luxurious fabrics like leather combined with modern chrome frames, and a distinct separation of the supporting structure and the supported surfaces, often employing cantilevers to enhance the feeling of lightness created by delicate structural frames.
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Consultation with architects, clients, real estate men, fabric houses and furniture companies is essential to the proper development of class problems just as in actual work.
Considerable specialization in teaching subjects such as architecture, furniture design, textiles and color is also desirable.
But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.
There is an inwardness and a luster to old furniture ( look at that mahogany highboy behind you ) which has a provocative emanation, if I may say so.
Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.
Today's trend toward furniture designs from America's past is teaching home-owners and decorators a renewed respect for the shrewd cabinetmakers of our Colonial era.
At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.
While entrance to the Park is free, Gaudí's house, " la Torre Rosa ," — containing furniture that he designed — can be only visited for an entrance fee.
As a hardwood, alder is used in making furniture and cabinets and other woodworking products.
Padauk wood is sturdier than teak and is widely used for furniture making.
What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art ; whereby he-together with his first wife Aino Aalto-would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware.
" The production is " sparing on furniture and heavy on shadows ", with " a scaled-down orchestra at lugubriously slowed-down tempos ..." He goes on to write that " this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility.
The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).
One of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Full-time employment is also available in catering, farming, gardening, laundry, textiles, Braille, contract services, furniture manufacturing and polishing.
Allen's name is the trademark of the furniture and housewares manufacturer, Ethan Allen Inc., which was founded in 1932 in Beecher Falls, Vermont.
In most homes a dedicated coffee area is surrounded by fresh grass, with special furniture for the coffee maker.
Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, or furniture.
A large harpsichord is, in a sense, a piece of furniture, as it stands alone on legs and may be styled in the manner of other furniture of its place and period.
IKEA ( Swedish pronunciation ) is a Swedish privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds, chairs, desks, appliances and home accessories.
The company is the world's largest furniture retailer.
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Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.
The company is known for its modern architectural designs on various types of appliance and furniture, often associated with a simplified eco-friendly interior design.
The prayer hall, also known as the musallah, rarely has furniture ; chairs and pews are generally absent from the prayer hall so as to allow as many worshipers as possible to line the room.
A special unit of the Royal Engineers known as the Magic Gang covered the de Haviland plant with canvas panels and scattered paper mache furniture and chunks of masonry around three broken and burnt giant generators.
Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions ( especially their style of music and furniture ), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.
Shaker craftsmen were known for a style of Shaker furniture that was plain in style, durable, and functional.
François Boucher () ( 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770 ) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture.
Traditional Japanese furniture is well known for its minimalist style, extensive use of wood, high-quality craftsmanship and reliance on wood grain instead of painting or thick lacquer.
This wealth is evident in the wide array of finds from the Pazyryk tombs, which include many rare examples of organic objects such as felt hangings, Chinese silk, the earliest known pile carpet, horses decked out in elaborate trappings, and wooden furniture and other household goods.
Goods is known across Kewanee, Illinois, and further for being an excellent source for beautiful and affordable furniture.
Gardner is known as the " Chair City " and " The Furniture Capital of New England ", due to its long history in furniture production.
Settled in 1784 and incorporated in 1828, Towanda was once known primarily for its industrial interests, which included flour, planing and silk mills, a foundry and machine shop, dye works, and manufactories of talking machines, cut glass, toys and furniture.
Charles W. Crandall, the superintendent, was the son of Charles Martin Crandall, known as the maker of Crandall ’ s building blocks and grandson of Asa Crandall who ran a furniture factory in Covington in 1840.
Red Lion was also known nationwide for its furniture industry, with several large factories producing ornate, hand crafted furniture for over 100 years.
High Point is known for its furniture, textiles, and bus manufacturing.
Regarding Starck's furniture designs, he is widely known for his designs for the Italian manufacturer Kartell, many of which are made from polycarbonate plastic.
Although much of the pine furniture making has ceased in the last 10 years Newark is still known for its antiques shops and centres.
He later owned a furniture shop, and became known as " the Mad Hatter " from his habit of standing in the door of his shop wearing a top hat.
The taste for all things Greek in furniture and interior design was at its peak by the beginning of the 19th century, when the designs of Thomas Hope had influenced a number of decorative styles known variously as Neoclassical, Empire, Russian Empire, and Regency.
Otto was a cousin of the well known furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, and a grandson of Zacharias Frank.
Many remember the furniture store there known as Ferdinand's Blue Store, as the elevated train bisected the building.
Also known as Asian Design, this style of furniture is characterized by its use of materials such as bamboo and rattan.
In the late 19th century, Wardour Street was known for slightly shoddy furniture stores.
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