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Furniture glossary term of the Day:
SECRETARY - Slant-top desk on top of a chest of drawers that became popular in America and England during the 18th and 19th centuries. SETTEE - An elongated armchair that accommodates two or more people. It was developed in the 17th century, was often upholstered, and predates the sofa. SHAKER - Furniture designed and made by Shakers, an American religious, communal sect founded in the 19th century, that believed beauty derived from usefulness and impractical objects were sinful. The unadorned furniture features clean, spare, elegant lines, exemplified in the slim, tall, Shaker ladder-back chair. |
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