Results found with the tag 'Furniture' , 48 articles in total.
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Chinese furniture: Recessed-Leg Stool
The ‘recessed-leg’ type is closely related to traditional post-and-beam architectural construction.
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Chinese furniture: Bamboo and Bamboo-Style Stool
Popularized during the 17th century, wooden ‘bamboo-style’ furniture encapsulated the virtuous characteristics of bamboo in a more enduring form.
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Chinese furniture: Benches
Benches are essentially long stools. They are also called 'spring bench' (chundeng), suggesting a seat that could be shared by lovers.
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Chinese furniture history
The early history of Chinese furniture recorded in excavated material, engraved stone and stamped brick reveals a mat-level furniture culture. The ancient Chinese knelt or sat cross-legged upon w
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Chinese furniture: Recessed-Leg Stool
The ‘recessed-leg’ type is closely related to traditional post-and-beam architectural construction. It is characterized by leg supports that are recessed from the corners of the top frame that
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Chinese furniture: Corner-Leg Stool
‘Corner-leg’ types are divided into ‘flush-sided’ (simianping) and ‘waisted’ type. ‘Flush-sided’ types are box-like in form, and generally of austere style with minimal decoration.
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Chinese furniture: Round Stool
Round stools include those with ‘bulging-legs’, ‘cabriole-legs’, ‘drum-shaped‘, and straight-leg types.
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Chinese furniture: Folding Stool
The folding stool is the same as the ancient huchuang style. The two legs have silver-inlaid hinges to pin the round-shaped wood members.
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Chinese furniture: Qing-Style Armchair
The Qing-style chair appears as a large stool with separate railings attached above,
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Chinese furniture: Lounge Chair
Deep-seated chairs were generally accompanied with an adjustable sloping backrest or a soft, cushioned mat for comfortable lounging; erotic paintings also demonstrate their compatibility for love
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Chinese furniture: Folding Chair
The folding chair was popularized during the Song dynasty, from which period both round-back and square-back examples are in evidence. Traditional Chinese terms include both jiaoyi (crossed chai
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Chinese furniture: Canopy Beds
The platform bed was naturally extended with surrounding screen panels or tented awnings to provide nighttime enclosure. The canopy bed is thus characterized by a super structure fitted to the to
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Chinese furniture:Official's Hat Yokeback Chair
The ‘official’s hat chair’ is divided into two categories: the yokeback armchair (with four protruding ends) and southern official’s armchair. Of these, the ‘yokeback’ chair or is perhaps f
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Chinese furniture:Southern Official's Armchair
The ‘southern official' armchair’ (nanguan mao yi) is characterized by armrests and crestrail that turn down into the vertical posts. Chinese craftsman term this right angle joint a ‘pipe join
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Chinese furniture:Roundback Armchair
Round-back armchairs emerged simultaneously with other highback chairs during the Tang and Song dynasties. Its rounded backrest and smooth, downward sloping armrest are exceptionally comfortable
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Chinese furniture:Lamphanger Chair
Side chairs, or chairs without arms, appeared from the Song dynasty through the Qing dynasty with little change to the basic form.
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Chinese furniture:Rose Chair
The rose chair is characterized by its relatively low height, small size, and angular construction with straight-member back and armrests.
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Chinese furniture:Meditation Chair
The meditation chair (chanyi) has a spacious seat that the legs can be drawn up upon. Aside from this general characteristic, it was produced in many styles.
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Chinese furniture: Couch Beds
Although the use was similar to the daybed, the couch bed (chuang, luohan chuang) is distinguished by railings, which render it as a more formal piece of furniture.
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Chinese furniture: Daybeds
Open-frame daybeds were popularized during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and their use gradually eclipsed the old, box-style platform.