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Common Sense Antiques
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Common Terms-Commonly Misused
EVERY AREA of special interest has its own vocabulary and words of common usage. Antiques certainly fall into this category, with some of its more obscure terms like "recamier" and "bergere." But there are also a number of terms that are quite common in the industry and among these common terms are a significant number that are constantly misused, misspelled or misunderstood.
One of the things I see frequently in inquiries from readers concerns that cabinetmaker with the musical name, Duncan Phyfe, In fact, his family name was "Fife" but when he came to America ...
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Style stands still.
Magazine article from: Style
; ...to readers of a journal with a name like Style. In this context, it quickly became obvious...ordinary understanding of what was meant by style was deficient--deficient enough, anyway...act of linguistic research: I looked up style in the dictionary. And thereby I found...
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Your photographic style.
Magazine article from: PSA Journal
; What Is a Style? Imagine that a person not familiar with...generally be the same. A photographer's style is a consistent, distinctive and recognizable...repetition of motifs--from image to image. A style can be thought of as the work an artist...
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Which Architectural Style Best Withstands the Separate Destructive Forces Associated with a Hurricane?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
; ...destruction. If they could identify an architectural style that best withstood hurricane forces, they might...three model homes according to the architectural style's floor plans. Each style was tested regarding flow rate of water, load bearing...
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A bibliography of bibliographies appearing in Style, 1967-1994. (periodical)
Magazine article from: Style
; ...and the earliest and latest volumes of Style in particular contain essays which are...Kroeber characterized them in a critique of Style published in 1970, reportorial (295) - to much greater degrees. The first article in Style 1.1, for example, is Richard W. Bailey...
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Duncan Phyfe, revisitus.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...fronts of the shop and warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, a man whose name, more than any other...matter remain matters of speculation. Duncan Phyfe was born in Scotland in 1768 and came...published Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe, the first monograph on an American...
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Introduction.(Style in Cinema)(style in cinema)
Magazine article from: Style
; This number of Style assembles six essays on style in cinema. The authors discuss parallels between literary style and film style, ways in which technology (sound, color) shapes technique, the problem of cinematic tempo, the ethics of style, and...
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Film form: an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film.(Style in Cinema)
Magazine article from: Style
; Part I: The Different Domains of Style As with other artforms, the initial problem of talking about style or form in film is complicated by the fact that the concept of style can be applied to so many different kinds of things and at so many different...
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De la langue au style.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; De la langue au style. Ed. by JEAN MICHEL GOUVARD. (Textes et Langue) Lyon: Presses...978-2-7297-0767-5. Jean Michel Gouvard's De la langue au style offers a comprehensive overview of style and stylistics in the French language, gathering together...
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A cognitive theory of style.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 0820453617 A cognitive theory of style. Tolcsvai Nagy, Gabor. Peter Lang Publishing...experiential. He grounds the notion of style, contrasting folk categories with linguistic...theories, establishes his three aspects of style, explores the stylistic potential of language...
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In search of the mysteries of style.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Writing!
; ...your sentences come to life and ring with substance and style. Ah, style, that intangible quality of writing that leaves an indelible...third edition of their classic manual The Elements of Style, There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible...
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