Looking around slowly, he saw a marble fireplace, a desk, a low bookcase of mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of glass panes in the doors.

One of the grandest pieces of 19th century furniture is the highly elaborate French Cabinet dated 1861 – 1867 made by M. Fourdinois, made from ebony inlaid with box, lime, holly, pear, walnut and mahogany woods as well as marble with gilded carvings.

Rosewood, mahogany, bird's eye maple veneer, marble, ormolu, and leather.

The Renaissance style mahogany furniture provides another contrast with that of the colored marble, and brings out all features of the room.

For the entrance gallery: marble floors and parchment panels framed in mahogany.

Other Cameron's interiors include the Waiters ' Room, with the inlaid floor of rosewood, amaranth and mahogany and stylish Chippendale card-tables ; the Blue Formal Dining-Room, with white-and-blue silk wallpapers and Carrara marble chimneys ; the Chinese Blue Drawing Room, a curious combination of Adam style with the Chinoiserie ; the Choir Anteroom, with walls lined in apricot-colored silk ; and the columned boudoir of Alexander I, executed in the Pompeian style.

A large portion of the building costs ( approximately 25 %) were spent on decorations and fittings ; the inside of the building is lavishly decorated using expensive materials including mahogany from Spain and oak from Danzig for the woodwork, bronze for the floor furniture and fittings, and white marble for the floors and walls.

Phipps is renowned for its exquisite interior decor, which consists of mahogany walls, marble floors, glass elevators, chandeliers, and a massive carpeted grand staircase.

* Randolph Street entrance and stairway-Entrance with doric columns, mahogany doors, and entry hall with coffered ceiling and walls of green-veined Vermont marble.

The hall is faced with deep green Vermont marble, broken by a series of arches for windows and mahogany doors.

Unlike other House Dining Halls, Cabot's is not enormous, paneled in mahogany and decorated with oil paintings, marble busts, and medieval tapestries.

Springs carefully preserved the splendor of the forty-year old car's Victorian design — Cuban mahogany paneling, crystal chandelier, velvet draperies, marble bath and gold-plated beds.

Most common monument colors for granite are gray, then black, then mahogany ; for marble it is white.

It was saved in 1993 by 17 activists and preservationists ( the Blue Mouse Associates ) who bought and restored " the building's original Craftsman-style timbers, stucco, pillars, marble terrazzo and original mahogany doors.

Materials used in construction include teak wood or tun wood ( Cedrela tuna ), which is a variation of mahogany, for the neck and faceplate ( tabli ), and gourds for the kaddu ( the main resonating chamber ).

This chamber is hidden behind mahogany timbre ribs that frame the front walls of the Concert Hall.

The House chamber on the first floor is rather simple and featured mahogany desks and leather chairs.

In the room next to theirs was a huge cradle, of mahogany, ornately carved and decorated with gold leaf.

Deal furniture with a mahogany finish was neatly arranged as if it stood in the window of a department store.

The name mahogany was initially associated only with those islands in the West Indies under British control ( French colonists used the term acajou, while in the Spanish territories it was called caoba ).

Until the 19th century all mahogany was regarded as one species, although varying in quality and character according to soil and climate.

In 1886 a third species, Swietenia macrophylla, was named by Sir George King ( 1840 – 1909 ) after studying specimens of Honduras mahogany planted in the Botanic Gardens in Calcutta, India.

On the English controlled islands, especially Jamaica and the Bahamas, mahogany was abundant but not exported in any quantity before 1700.

While the trade in mahogany from the Spanish and French territories in America remained moribund for most of the 18th century, this was not true for those islands under British control.

This had the effect of immediately stimulating the trade in West Indian timbers, of which the most important was mahogany.

This was sometimes called Providence wood, after the main port of the islands, but more often madera or maderah, which was the Bahamian name for mahogany.

The most significant third source was Black River and adjacent areas on the Mosquito Coast ( now Republic of Honduras ), from where quantities of mahogany were shipped from the 1740s onwards.

This mahogany was known as ' Rattan mahogany ', after the island of Ruatan which was the main offshore entrepot for the British settlers in the area.

During the occupation of Havana by British forces between August 1762 and July 1763, quantities of Cuban or Havanna mahogany were sent to Britain, and after the city was restored to Spain in 1763 small quantities continue to be exported, mostly to small ports on the north coast of Jamaica, from where it was sent to Britain.

However, this mahogany was not much liked, being regarded as inferior to the Jamaican variety, and the trade remained fitful until the 19th century.

Another variety new to the market was Hispaniola mahogany, also called ' Spanish ' and ' St Domingo ' mahogany.

The object was primarily to encourage importations of cotton from French plantations in Saint Domingue, but quantities of high quality mahogany were also shipped.

In terms of quantity, the most significant new addition to the mahogany trade was Honduras mahogany, also called ' baywood ', after the Bay of Honduras.

Additionally, the room was revamped to make future technological upgrades easier —" so you don't have to carve a hole in an antique mahogany wall to improve it ," according to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Joe Hagin.

B. Traven's best known works include the novels The Death Ship from 1926 and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 1927, in 1948 filmed by John Huston, and the so-called Jungle Novels, also known as the Caoba cyclus ( from the Spanish word caoba, meaning mahogany ), a group of six novels ( including The Carreta and Government ), published in the years 1930 – 1939, set among Mexican Indians just before and during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.

It had a lengthy mahogany bar running along one side, lots of mirrors and a dance floor at the back, a capacity of just 178 people, and a gay clientele.

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

* Cercocarpus ledifolius, Curl leaf mountain mahogany, a nitrogen fixer important food source for Desert bighorn sheep

The most common woods used for electric guitar body construction include maple, basswood, ash, poplar, alder, and mahogany.

In 1671 the word mahogany appeared in print for the first time, in John Ogilby's America.

The timbers of Entandrophragma are sold under their individual names, sometimes with " mahogany " attached as a suffix, for example " sipo " may be referred to as " sipo mahogany ".

In the 17th century the buccanneer John Esquemeling recorded the use of mahogany or cedrela on Hispaniola for making canoes ; ' The Indians make these canoes without the use of any iron instruments, by only burning the trees at the bottom near the root, and afterwards governing the fire with such industry that nothing is burnt more than what they would have ...'.

A cross in the Cathedral at Santo Domingo, bearing the date 1514, is said to be mahogany, and Phillip II of Spain apparently employed the wood for the interior joinery of the Escorial Palace, begun in 1584.

Although initially regarded as a joinery wood, mahogany rapidly became the timber of choice for makers of high quality furniture in both the British Isles and the 13 colonies of North America.

Hispaniola ( aka Spanish and St Domingo ) mahogany was the wood of choice for high quality work.

Historically, the tree's girth allowed for wide boards from traditional mahogany species.

Mahogany is still widely used for fine furniture ; however, the rarity of Cuban mahogany and over harvesting of Honduras and Brazilian mahogany has diminished their use.

Various species are used for vegetable oil, soap-making, insecticides, and highly prized wood ( mahogany ).

Mazhara and mahogany have also been cited as comparable to rosewood in quality for use as marimba bars.

Archdeacon William Strong, a regular visitor to the prison, notes in his diary of 23 October 1801 that he provided a piece of mahogany and paid a prisoner £ 1 15s 6d to build a model of the Block House and £ 2 2s for a straw picture of Peterborough Cathedral.

America's white press began promoting Louis ' image in as positive a manner as was possible for the times ; nicknames created for Louis included the " mahogany mauler ," " chocolate chopper ," " coffee-colored KO king ," " saffra sandman ," and, one that stuck, " The Brown Bomber.