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Also Known As furnishings

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Mahogany card table
Walnut armchair
Moon-viewing chair
Reproduction of early 18th-century chintz bedspread and hangings
Marriage chest
Early Neoclassical dining room
Horseshoe armchair
Figure 73: Art Nouveau painted oak cabinet with coloured glass by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1902.
Figure 68: One of a pair of Baroque cabinets inlaid with pietra dura made for Louis XIV by the Italian furniture maker and sculptor, Domenico Cucci, at the Gobelins factory, France, 1681--83.
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Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
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John Goddard
American cabinetmaker
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Stephen Goddard
American cabinetmaker
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Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
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Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
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Christopher Townsend
American cabinetmaker
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Charles Eames
American designer
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Ray Eames
American designer
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John Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
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William Morris
British artist and author
Eero Saarinen in a womb chair
Eero Saarinen
American architect
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
Charlotte Perriand
French designer
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect and designer
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
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David Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Vase with relief decoration by Émile Gallé, c. 1895; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Émile Gallé
French glass designer