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chippendale
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism, n.
It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then,
that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with
painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as
Chippendale, no matter where or by whom, it is a
million chances to one that the description is
incorrect.
--R. D. Benn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"piece of furniture by, or in the style of, Chippendale," by 1871, from Thomas Chippendale (c.1718-1779), English cabinetmaker. The family name (13c.) is from Chippingdale, Lancashire (probably from Old English ceaping "a market, marketplace," related to cheap). Chippendales beefcake dance revue, began late 1970s in a Los Angeles nightclub, the name said to have been chosen for its suggestion of elegance and class.
Wikipedia
Chippendale may refer to:
- Alfreda Chippendale (1842–1887), American actress
- George McCartney Chippendale (1921–2010), Australian botanist and phytogeograph
- Thomas Chippendale (c. 1718–1779), cabinetmaker, namesake of Chippendale furniture
- Thomas Chippendale, the younger (1749–1822), cabinetmaker, son of Thomas Chippendale
- William Henry Chippendale (1801–1888), English actor
- Chairface Chippendale, a supervillain character from the Tick comics
- Chipps Chippendale, mountain bike magazine editor
- Chippendales, a chain of clubs and troupe of performers
- Chippendale, New South Wales
- Chinese Chippendale (architecture), an architectural detail derived from Thomas Chippendale's Chinese-influenced work
(Gabriella Chippendale)
Usage examples of "chippendale".
Thomas Affleck produced furniture as fine as any made in the colonies, all in the fashionable style of the English cabinetmaker Chippendale.
I helped him lift ten shield-back Chippendale chairs off the tail of the van.
Chippendales -- not all of them, just two -- but Ulla says we can go to this party in the afternoon with Mulla and in the evening we can get together with her and the Chippendales, go to a night club, hang out.
One figure, seated on a brocaded Chippendale sofa, stretched out her hand toward the silver tea service on the table before her.
Martha Washington chair reputed to be Chippendale and lastly a little rosewood desk where her mother had been in the habit of writing her letters.
It was a large room with an ornamental plaster ceiling, panelled walls, and furnished with a vast sideboard with a good deal of marquetry, an oblong table of some size with chairs in the Chippendale style, and a long case clock also covered in marquetry, and all of them in mahogany.
The second floor was a well-finished hardwood, with a cheerful rag rug and a vase of dried flowers on a Chippendale hall table.
It was exquisitely furnished in Chippendale, with a huge four-poster bed that was swathed in graceful swags of netting, and with huge, lush potted plants artistically arranged around the room.
Small pieces for the most part: her mother's papier mac he work table, encrusted with mother of-pearl and inlaid with metal foil, a serpentine table in mahogany with a pierced gallery, and a Martha Washington chair reputed to be Chippendale and lastly a little rosewood desk where her mother had been in the habit of writing her letters.
He opened the door and they crossed the hall to another pair of doors opening on to the dining room a magnificent apartment with panelled walls, two great windows draped in almond green velvet and a three-pedestal dining table in mahogany around which stood twelve Chippendale chairs.
Intrigue and Masks realiz'd in locally obtain'd Fur and Plumage, clamorous with Chatter and what seems now more to resemble Dancing-Music, dominated from one wall by a gigantic rococo Mirror, British Chippendale to the innocent eye, engrossing easily the hundredth part of an acre, Dixon trying to stand his ground even as his partner has begun to walk away rapidly backward, for an Eye-blink there having pass'd over his Face a look of Alarm that has not possess'd it since the Seahorse, during the worst of that encounter.
Here is a Paradise of Chance, an E-0 Wheel big as a Roundabout, Lottery Balls in Cages ever a-spin, Billiards and Baccarat, Bezique and Games whose Knaves and Queens live, over Flemish Carpets, among perfect imported Chippendale Gaming-Tables, beneath Chandeliers secretly, cunningly faceted so as to amplify the candle-light within, they might be Children playing in miniature at Men of Enterprise, whose Table is the wide World, lands and seas, and the Sums they wager too often, when the Gaming has halted at last, to be reckon'd in tears.
Harpy's Chippendale control console, tucking its twin into a hunter's game bag.
Here in her study, Constance Veronica Tavenall, soon to be the former wife of Congressman Jonathan Sharmer, sits behind a wonderful Chinese Chippendale desk decorated with intricate chinoiserie.
Vance sauntered idly through the glass doors into the little reception hall, and stood gazing abstractedly at a console phonograph of Chinese Chippendale design which stood against the wall at one end.