The delicate floral and cornucopia motifs carved on the crest rails of his earlier Federal period sofas and side chairs recall the work of the great woodcarver Samuel McIntyre of Salem, Mass.
WSJ: Duncan Phyfe | Furniture for a Young Nation | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer
In the furniture galleries, handsome chests stand solemnly side by side and chairs by master craftsmen are lined up in straight rows for serious inspection.
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He was sitting beside the woman, two kitchen chairs side by side.
Here is the very picture of warm-season bliss: a group of friends around a garden table cluttered with food and drink, those on the near side turning in their chairs to face the camera, their faces sunlit.
The night before, I had fallen onto the floor in my sleep, something that hadn't happened since I'd first graduated from a crib to a bed and to prevent me from rolling out of it my parents had to set a pair of kitchen chairs at the side of the mattress.
To make the dialogue as open and honest as possible, all of the panelists moved our chairs to the other side of the official dais.
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Here and there, people ducked forward in their chairs, or to the side, letting him through.
We stacked our armchairs on one side of the room and arranged another set of chairs around folding tables.
Upholstered chairs surround a long black table overlooking a manicured row of trees on one side and a sculptural black-and-white fossil on the other.
In Phyfe's lyre-back chairs, the lyre features a key-ended tuning pin on the right side and a peg-shaped end on the left, suggesting an authentic musical instrument rather than a mere design motif.
WSJ: Duncan Phyfe | Furniture for a Young Nation | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer
The first things I bought for it, after the stove, the fridge, and the dishwasher went in, were an eleven-foot table, ten chairs, a pair of outsized armchairs, and an old stone fireplace wide enough for a side of pork.
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