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Paned arches // Palladian windows add high style to almost any room
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A Palladian window tends to dominate a room and draw attention
to a facade. Because of this, the three-part window, characterized
by its semicircular top, must be carefully designed and placed. One
needn't be as careful as the late Renaissance architect Andrea
Palladio was with his studies of proportion, but you should be more
careful than you would be in placing a piece of furniture.
The need to replace an existing window or the desire to enliven
the design of a special room often provides the opportunity to study
window types, sizes and characteristics. Not too many years ago
choices ...
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Bringing in daylight: three painters show how.
Magazine article from: Sunset
; ...Angeles architect Marc Appleton incorporated a gracefully arched window--salvaged from a house that was being demolished--into the...classical feeling. The flanking panes are casements; the arched window and the pane below are fixed.
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Flexible trims and mouldings.(Product news: supplies)
Magazine article from: Wood & Wood Products
; ...wood moulding in grain texture and color. The company says the trims and mouldings can be cut and nailed, or stained like wood on any curved wall or on any arched window. (973) 643-6700 www.flexibletrims.com Circle #143 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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AGA.(Time Warp: Nostalgic products recollect days gone by.)
Magazine article from: Building Products
; Classic British Legacy series stoves now are available with the Legacy Cathedral beveled door with an arched window. The dual-fuel ranges come in 36- and 44-inch-wide models; the Cathedral door is optional for the multi-function oven on the 36-in...
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Restoring the stained glass in Saint Michael's Church, Charleston.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...with its simple box pews, contrasts with the apse, which was decorated in 1905 by Tiffany Studios. Its centerpiece is a Palladian window with a central panel, Saint Michael the Archangel Slaying the Devil (Pls. II, VI), flanked by sidelights decorated with...
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And Perhaps More.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review
; The small chapel was only half full, the singing uncertain. Suddenly a watery sun slanted in through the arched window and lit up the young minister's face so that for a moment or two he looked almost saintly, his closely barbered fair hair and his...
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Out of scandal, reform?(campaign reform)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...sanguine when confronted with the notion that he's being used by President Clinton. With sunlight streaming through a nine-foot arched window, the Arizona Republican sits in his airy Capitol Hill office, the very picture of calm confidence. His legs are straight...
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Community Showcase.
Magazine article from: Units
; ...fenestration, and balcony detail, jogged facades and gracious double French breezeway entrances accented with transom and Palladian window treatments, states W. Pretlow Riddick, Divisional President and Managing Partner of JPI's Eastern Division. Distinctive...
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Home in Annie's sacred space. (Starting Point).(narrative on remodeling a church into a home)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...open, we stepped into the vestibule, which led to another set of wooden swinging doors. Dusty sunlight filtered in from the arched window high above the door. The place was silent and as peaceful as a tomb. Walking into the main part of the church, which was...
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As a hen gathers her brood.(the account, in Luke, of Jesus' reaction to having his ministry rejected in Jerusalem)(Living by the Word)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...that Jesus wept over the city that had refused his ministrations. Inside the chapel, the altar is centered before a high arched window that looks out over the city. Iron grillwork divides the view into sections, so that on a sunny day the effect is that of...
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A soaring home office without adding space.
Magazine article from: Sunset
; ...the gabled roof. Exposed roof beams add to the feeling of volume. Daylight floods into the room through a new 9-foot-high arched window on the east end and new clerestory windows on the south. Built-in counters and cabinets wrap around three sides of the office...
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