This case study showcases a few 18th-century furniture forms in English and French styles using the correct terminology.
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Have a Seat S'il Vous Plait
With the dawn of the twentieth century, designers began to challenge the assumption of what could be the composition of a “seat.”
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Were American designers "pragmatists" of the Art and Crafts style?
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When looking at the Toilette à Tansformations, it is hard to imagine that its maker struggled to be acknowledged as one of the premiere ébénistes of eighteenth-century France.
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