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acanthus Adam Adam style Anne of Austria architecture beautiful became bedchamber bedstead Blois Boulle bureau cabinet cabinet-makers carved Castle ceiling CHAPTER characteristic chest of drawers Chippendale clock coffers colonial color combined construction court cupboard decoration designs doors Dutch early eighteenth century England English example executed fireplace Flanders Flemish Flemish chair fluted Fontainebleau fourteenth century France François French furnished furniture-makers Gothic Gouthière hall handicraft Henri Henri II Hepplewhite high-boy Holland homes illustrated important influence inlay intarsia interior Italian Italy Jacobean late legs lines Louis XIII Louis XV Louis XVI style mahogany Marie Antoinette marquetry Museum ormolu ornament painted palace panels patterns period Petit Trianon piece of furniture Queen reign Renaissance Riesener Robert Adam rococo Röntgen royal scroll seat seventeenth century shell Sheraton sideboard silver sixteenth century Spain Spanish tapestry wainscot walnut wood wood-carving woodwork