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Mahogany Style: With the advent of the Modern period, over 20 woods new to furniture making were added. These come from various foreign lands, including Africa and Australia and are used for the decorative quality of grain or distinctive colors when finished.
Woods most favored during the various furniture style periods are: Puritan Span, white oak with tops or lids of wide, knot-free white pine; William and Mary and Queen Anne, walnut or maple, either plain or fancy grain; Chippendale, mahogany style, walnut and, after 1770, native cherry as a mahogany style substitute; Hepplewhite, mahogany, frequently with panels of satinwood veneer; Sheraton, mahogany style, or cherry with satinwood or curly or bird's-eye maple veneer for decorative panels; American Empire, mahogany style with liberal use of crotch-grain mahogany style veneer for tops, panels and sometimes entire pieces; Early Victorian, rosewood followed by black walnut, sometimes combined with crotch-grain walnut veneer, also, for some custom-made furniture, satinwood trimmed with rosewood or black walnut.
European colonists of the 16th century built borate structures of mahogany style. The Cathedral Santo Domingo, completed in 1540, has some the finest carved mahogany style in the world. The lerican wood was originally classified by dealers 3 Spanish and Honduras mahogany style, the former ^inating in the Spanish American possessions. e genus was first described by Nikolaus von quin in 1760 as S. mahogani, found in the lamas. |
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