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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. Ming cabinets Figure 54: Dutch Renaissance designs for cabinet furniture with columns, by Paul Vredeman de Vries. (1567-1630?)
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Cabinet

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Cabinet, in furniture design, originally a small room for displaying precious objects and later a piece of furniture composed of a network of small drawers commonly enclosed by a pair of doors. Cabinets were first used in Italy during the late Renaissance. In many parts of Europe, cabinets became the most sumptuous pieces of furniture, with great displays of marquetry, carving, inlay, and gilding. Some cabinets were placed on stands, others on chests. Themselves objects...

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