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Saarinen, Eero (1910 - 1961) Finnish born US
architect and designer. He worked with architect
Charles Eames and explored the use of plastics
in furniture. He produced the first moulded plastic
chairs. His tulip chairs and tables used moulded
glass fibre with aluminium supports for more strength,
these were made from 1957.
Sabino,Marius-Ernest (1878 - 1961) French Glass maker
during the Art Deco period in particular 1923 - 1939. His
work copied many of the glass blowing techniques and
the decoration and motifs of his contemporary Rene Lalique.
sabre A cavalry sword that is curved and from the 18th - 19th
Century, it has a single cutting edge, and was designed for
slashing.
sabre leg A curved chair leg originally made in the early
19th Century which resembles the line of a sabre blade.
It is more commonly associated with the Regency period.
From 1815 it was sometimes known as the Waterloo leg
after the Battle of Waterloo.
sabretache A flat pouch that would be suspended from
the cavalry officers belt, it would have been decorated
and worn until the early 20th Century.
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