chippendale

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  1. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular.

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  1. a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779)
  2. of or relating to an 18th-century style of furniture made by Thomas Chippendale; graceful outlines and Greek motifs and massive rococo carvings

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  • Bring in our chippendale chair. —  Ulysses
  • "chippendale" to "Chippendale" and "closely interpendent" to —  The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
  • They stepped into a square room, comfortably furnished, with deep arm-chairs, and a large chippendale writing-table which stood at right angles to the bow window, so placed that anyone writing at it should have the light upon his left. —  The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • The girl's simple, white dress, with only -- the painter had so far prevailed over the milliner, -- only a suggestion of bright ribands at throat and waist; the quaint chippendale chair, the sombre Spanish leather screen, which formed the background, and the pot of copper-coloured chrysanthemums, counterparts of the little cluster which Eve wore in the bosom of her gown, on a many-cornered Turkish table at the side: it had all the gay realism of modern Paris without losing the poetry of the old school, or attaining the hardness of the new. —  A Comedy of Masks A Novel
  • Metro Modern: Expats from California, the owners of this oh-so-fabulous Mid-Century Modern home furnishings store are hard at work scouring the planet to bring a little dash (or a lot, depending on who you ask) of Palm Springs heaven (a la Kelly Wearstler and Richard Neutra to name a few) to the Old Dominion's traditional chintz and chippendale. —  Design*Sponge
 

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