gothic chippendale

gothic chippendale
noun
Usage: usually capitalized G&C
: 18th century furniture with pointed arches, clustered columns, and other medieval details

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  • Gothic Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chippendale — Chip pen*dale, a. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chippendale — /chip euhn dayl /, n. 1. Thomas, 1718? 79, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer. adj. 2. of or in the style of Thomas Chippendale. * * * ▪ furniture  various styles of furniture fashionable in the third quarter of the 18th century and… …   Universalium

  • Thomas Chippendale — Chippendale Stühle Thomas Chippendale (* 1718 in Farnley nahe Otley und Leeds in West Yorkshire, Königreich Großbritannien; † 13. November 1779 in London) war ein Kunsttischler (cabinet and chair maker) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Chippendale, Thomas — (baptized June 5, 1718, Otley, Eng. died November 1779, London) English cabinetmaker. Little is known of his life before 1753, when he opened a showroom and workshop in London. In 1754 he published The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker s Director, a… …   Universalium

  • Chinese Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • French Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gothic Revival architecture — Notable Neo Gothic edifices: top: Palace of Westminster, London; left: Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh; right: Sint Petrus en Pauluskerk, Ostend …   Wikipedia

  • Chippendale — This interesting and unusual name with variant spellings Chippindale and Chippindall, is of English locational origin from Chippingdale in Lancashire near Clitheroe, so called from the Old English pre seventh Century word cieping , ceping ,… …   Surnames reference

  • Chippendale style — Style of furniture derived from designs by Thomas Chippendale. The term specifically refers to English furniture made in a modified Rococo style in the 1750s and 60s, though Chippendale also designed furniture in Gothic and Chinese styles. Some… …   Universalium

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