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Eames, Charles (1907-78) US architect
and furniture designer, who with his colleague
Eero Saarinen explored the potential of new
materials such as aluminium, plywood and
steel. He later used his techniques gained
and developed during the second world war to
create furniture chairs, tables, screens and storage
units that were fluid, strong and light.
earthernware Clay made products, that when
made are only fired to the point which the particles
form a single mass, and so do not vitrify into a
glassy substance. In order to make it waterproof
a glaze is needed.
Eastlake, Charles (1836-1906)
Architect and furniture designer associated
with the Art Furniture movement
ebeniste A specialised in veneering French Cabinet
maker. This technique already known in ancient
civilisations and revived in early 17th Century
Europe. The word Ebeniste was coined as much of
the 17th Century Furniture used an ebony veneer.
ebony A very close textured hardwood which is
black in colour. It is unusually resistant to decay.
It is brittle and from the 17th Century in Britain
was most commonly thinly cut as veneer, and used
for banding and inlaid decoration. Fruitwoods
were often used to imitate ebony by staining them
black. Coromandel is similar in colour and weight
but mottled grey or brown or striped with black and
yellow. Calamander is a light brown ebony.
eculle French term for a late 17th and 18th Century
lidded bowl with two handles made in silver,
pewter or ceramics. In English the term most often
used is Porringer. Silver versions called equelles.Edinburgh Tapestry Company, A non profit
making workshop that was established in
1912. Until 1940, they produced large,
commissioned tapestry scenes, after 1946
similar smaller coarser weave panels designed
by contemporary artists became more common.
Also known as Dovecot Studios or Dovecot
Tapestries.
Edis, Robert A furniture designer from the Arts
and Crafts movement he was the author of the
influential publication 'The Decoration
and Furniture of Town Houses' in 1881.
eggshell porcelain A very delicate Chinese porcelain
from the early 18th Century, later it was produced
by Irish Belleek porcelain factory and the Japanese
Kutani factories in the late 19th and early 20th
Centuries.
Egyptian Blackware A very fine black in colour
stoneware, that was produced in Staffordshire
from Circa 1710, it could be polished to shine.
Wedgewood's Basaltes ware is a more refined
version.
Egyptian taste Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in
1797 prompted interest in Egyptian architecture,
symbols and hieroglyphics, they were incorporated
into the work of Neoclassical designers and architects
as decorative motifs. The early 19th Century furniture
designs of English designer and Thomas Hope helped
introduce Egyptian taste into Britain.
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