Confetti sets a festive tone by dressing tables with brightly colored napkins and Fiestaware plates in pastel shades.
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They don't talk about it, but in the jockeys' room, where their lockers are side by side, both with Bibles open on their dressing tables, the subject is ever-present.
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Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker 10 In the jockeys' room, where their lockers are side by side, both Ortiz brothers have Bibles open on their dressing tables.
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Ranging from monumental cabinets to delicate chairs and dressing tables, works on view here invariably display terrific technical expertise but no core sense of personal style, which may be why he had not been better known before now.
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At least seven interconnected rooms on the second floor of the sprawling palazzo, with its soaring frescoed ceilings, marble floors and walls hung with gilded mirrors, had been given a Gucci face-lift with Oriental screens and mazes of giant, leafy exotic plants, dressing tables, Persian carpets and richly hued velveteen chaise lounges.
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This white and green toleware mirror was created for the most elegant of dressing tables or powder rooms.
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Merchant Levi Hollingsworth was a patron and friend of Affleck's. A suite of furniture with identically carved legs - twin high chests, matching twin dressing tables, a set of 8 chairs, twin pie-crust tea tables - descended in the Hollingsworth family. During the war, Affleck sometimes traded furniture to Hollingsworth for materials and other goods.Thomas Affleck, "Accounts with Levi Hollingsworth, 1779–1784," Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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On the top floor were four bedrooms, furnished with Japanned (black lacquered) and mahogany bedsteads, dressing tables, wash stands and chests of drawers; white dimity, leather-covered armchairs; and Kidderminster or Brussels carpets. On the second floor were three slightly bigger rooms, with four-poster beds. On the first floor were four comfortable sitting rooms, with open fires, velvet-covered oak chairs and mahogany tables. The third sitting room had a piano in a mahogany case.
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Many examples of this style survive, exemplified by massive chests of drawers with scroll pillars and glass pulls, work tables with scroll feet and fiddleback chairs. Elements of the style enjoyed a brief revival in the 1890s with, particularly, chests of drawers and vanities or dressing tables, usually executed in oak and oak veneers. This Americanized interpretation of the Empire style continued in popularity in conservative regions outside the major metropolitan centers well past the mid-nineteenth century.
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Apart from traditional furniture in a wide range of three piece settees, headboards, beds, garden swings, dressing tables, rocking chairs, tables, screens, divan, etc., other handicraft innovations introduced in this format are wall-hangings, pedestal lamps, flower vases and pen stands, toys, kitchen ware and support for hammocks. Though the design appears fragile, the furniture is durable and lasts for a long period. It is a custom among the Gujarati community to gift this traditional furniture as an auspicious gift during marriage.
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Most no frills hotels don't have door keys, instead they use either inexpensive swipe-keys or digital door locks. Many of them have no pictures on the walls, baths in the bathrooms or excessive furniture like minibars, fridges or dressing tables. Bedding is limited to pillows and duvets. Some like Tune and easyHotel even go as far as putting advertisements on the walls and in case of Zip some rooms even having no windows, instead having a sunlight-powered light box.
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This hall has a luxuriant interior with large chandeliers. Weapons of the maharanas and some of their portraits are depicted here. The foundation stone for this hall was laid by Lord Minto, the Viceroy of India, in 1909, during the rule of Maharana Fateh Singh and was then called Minto Hall. ;Fateprakash Palace Fateprakash Palace, which is now a luxury hotel, has a crystal gallery that consists of crystal chairs, dressing tables, sofas, tables, chairs and beds, crockery, table fountains which were never used.
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The women's lounge was furnished with dressing tables, mirrors, maids and hairdressers. There was also a self-playing Louis XV Ampico-Knabe grand piano in ivory and gold on the bridge over the lobby. The walls of the auditorium were elaborately decorated with murals and near the front of the stage, small balconies were hung with drapes which hid the pipes from the $46,500 Wurlitzer organ. This four-manual organ console was mounted on an elevator and could be raised to the level of the stage at the touch of a button.
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Several chambers within the Castle are named after colours such as 'Basanti', 'Gulabi' and so forth. They are used distinctly in summer or winter months with the relevant color schemes. Some of the originality that remains in the Castle includes furniture that had been imported by Nawab Mohammad Ishak Khan from London, to various showpieces that the Castle displays with pride. Pendulum clocks, ornately designed lamps, antique chandeliers, carved wooden cabinets, chests, dressing tables, cupboards and drawers, antique lampshades, candle-stands, mirrors and historic portraits are amongst some of the rare artifacts that have been preserved throughout Mustafa Castle's century-old lifetime.
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The deckhouse was paneled in mahogany, with a large davenport and card table, and with large plate glass windows for good views. Below decks, the main salon was paneled in oak, with English tapestry for wall panels and upholstery, and with three built-in sofa beds, oak furniture, an 8-person dining table, and two sideboards with glazed and leaded glass. The grand stateroom contained a 3/4 bed, a Pullman bed, two dressing tables, and a bathroom. In 1918, she was purchased by W. L. Baum of the Chicago Yacht Club and renamed the Whitemarsh.
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She became one of his first Newport clients for her home there, Land's End. In her autobiography, A Backward Glance, Wharton wrote: > We asked him to alter and decorate the house—a somewhat new departure, since > the architects of that day looked down on house-decoration as a branch of > dress-making, and left the field up to the upholsterers, who crammed every > room with curtains, lambrequins, jardinières of artificial plants, wobbly > velvet-covered tables littered with silver gew-gaws, and festoons of lace on > mantelpieces and dressing tables. Codman viewed interior design as "a branch of architecture".
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Sassanid silver- gilt shield-boss, 7th century Silver objects could be gilded at any point, not just when first made, and items regularly handled, such as toilet service sets for dressing-tables or tableware, often needed regilding after a few years, as the gold began to wear off. In 18th century London two different silversmiths charged 3 shillings per ounce of silver for an initial gilding, and 1 shilling and 9 pence per ounce for regilding.Glanville, 187 Often only the interior of cups was gilded, perhaps from concern at the chemical compounds used to clean tarnish from silver. This is called parcel-gilt.
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It is externally clad in corrugated iron and has two window shades and aluminum fixed blinds over sash windows on the eastern side. A range of original furniture is present inside the residence, including dining tables, one constructed of large panels of oak, two double and one single cast iron bed, wardrobes and dressing tables, a baby's folding feeding chair and claw bath ensemble. An iron tank sits above a corrugated iron clad shed containing a shower room at the rear of the west side of the annex. To the south east of the annexe is a dog's grave marked with a cross shaped headstone and a lily garden.
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Its size made it suitable for use as a 19th-century equivalent to a motorhome, as it could be adapted with all manner of conveniences (beds, dressing tables etc.) for the traveler. The great railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a britzka, the "Flying Coffin", as his traveling office whilst surveying the route of the Great Western Railway. He carried with him a drawing board, outline plans, engineering instruments, fifty of his favorite Lopez cigars and a pull-out bed. The term is a variant of the Polish term bryczka, a "little cart", from bryka, "cart", possibly coming into English via several ways, including German britschka and Russian brichka.
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The depiction of the toilette in William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-mode: 4. The Toilette (1743), with a mirror larger than in any surviving example, is disapproving,Schroder; Adlin, 9 and one of many satirical accounts and caricatures.Adlin, 9–10 At the same time the development of dressing tables with integral mirrors, and porcelain vessels, represented an alternative style of toilet equipment. The silver-gilt Neoclassical service made in London in 1779, now in Sweden (illustrated at top) is a late English example, and Philippa Glanville describes the Zoffany portrait of Queen Charlotte as showing "almost the latest flourish of the silver toilet service",Glanville, 100, quoted although George III gave her another service a few years later.
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Detail of Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Johan Zoffany, 1765, (the whole painting) The contents of a service were variable but the classical grouping had as its largest piece the mirror, usually decorated at the top with some form of crest. In the 17th century these were rectangular, usually oblongs in "portrait" format, though the Louvre mirror and the Lennoxlove service use a "landscape" format. The frame normally had a wooden framework holding the glass, over which the metal was fitted.Louvre; MOS In the 18th century oval mirrors began to be used, and later the introduction of dressing tables with built-in mirrors was part of the decline from fashion of the toilet service.
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There were eight cabins neatly paneled with polished hard woods, each containing lockers and drawers, dressing tables and wardrobes, and the wash basins had a hot and cold water supply. The guaranteed speed was 11.5 knots on a measured mile, and 11 knots for six hours. She carried four boats: :a 23 ft gig :an 18 ft cutter :a 14 ft dinghy :a 22 ft motor launch fitted with a Gardner engine and Gaines reversible propeller Henry Way Rymill, for many years Commodore of the R.S.A.Y.S., was a godson of Henry Dutton, and recalled cruising with Dutton on Adele for three months every year. Adele was also on the register of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, and as Dutton was a member of it, he had the right to fly the White Ensign.
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Taylor, 159 In the poem: :A new Scene to us next presents, :The Dressing-Room, and Implements, :Of Toilet Plate Gilt, and Emboss'd, :And several other things of Cost: :The Table Miroir, one Glue Pot, :One for Pomatum, and what not? :Of Washes, Unguents, and Cosmeticks, :A pair of Silver Candlesticks; :Snuffers, and Snuff-dish, Boxes more, :For Powders, Patches, Waters store, :In silver Flasks or Bottles, Cups :Cover'd, or open to wash Chaps;...Emory Women Writers Resource Project, Mundus Muliebris: Or, The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and her Toilette Spread, an electronic edition In the 18th-century special dressing-tables with a fitted mirror began to be made, so removing the need for the traditional centrepiece of a service.Adlin, 5–9, 24–25 Men also had special shaving tables, often on long legs for shaving standing up.Adlin, 10, 30–31 The full toilette did not always occur at the start of the day, but might be before going out or having a formal meal.
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