Molding (decorative), the Glossary

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1. 95 relations: American English, Ancient Egyptian architecture, Ancient Greek architecture, Ancient Roman architecture, Annulet (architecture), Architectural pattern book, Architrave, Archivolt, Assyria, Astragal, Augustus Pugin, Baseboard, Batten, Beauty, Bevel, Bolection, British English, Cartouche (design), Cavetto, Ceiling, Cement, Chair, Chamfer, Classical architecture, Classical order, Concave polygon, Convex polygon, Cornice, Crown molding, Cymatium, Dado rail, Dentil, Door, Egg-and-dart, Egyptian temple, English Gothic architecture, Entablature, Etruscan architecture, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Extrusion, Floor, Fluting (architecture), Gadrooning, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Glossary of architecture, Gothic architecture, Gothic Revival architecture, Guilloché, Ionic order, James Gibbs, ... Expand index (45 more) »

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Ancient Egyptian architecture

Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians.

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Ancient Greek architecture

Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Annulet (architecture)

An annulet is a small square component in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round. Molding (decorative) and annulet (architecture) are ornaments (architecture).

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Architectural pattern book

A pattern book, or architectural pattern book, is a book of architectural designs, usually providing enough for non-architects to build structures that are copies or significant derivatives of major architect-designed works.

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Architrave

In classical architecture, an architrave (also called an epistyle) is the lintel or beam, typically made of wood or stone, that rests on the capitals of columns. Molding (decorative) and architrave are architectural elements.

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Archivolt

An archivolt (or voussure) is an ornamental moulding or band following the curve on the underside of an arch. Molding (decorative) and archivolt are architectural elements.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Astragal

An astragal is a moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes (fillets). Molding (decorative) and astragal are architectural elements.

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Augustus Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins.

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Baseboard

In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, wainscoting, mopboard, trim, floor molding, or base molding) is usually wooden, MDF or vinyl board covering the lowest part of an interior wall. Molding (decorative) and baseboard are architectural elements and woodworking.

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Batten

A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Molding (decorative) and batten are woodworking.

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Beauty

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive.

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Bevel

A bevelled edge (UK) or beveled edge (US) is an edge of a structure that is not perpendicular to the faces of the piece. Molding (decorative) and bevel are woodworking.

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Bolection

A bolection is a decorative moulding which projects beyond the face of a panel or frame in raised panel walls, doors, and fireplaces. Molding (decorative) and bolection are architectural elements.

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British English

British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.

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Cartouche (design)

A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. Molding (decorative) and cartouche (design) are architectural elements and ornaments (architecture).

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Cavetto

A cavetto is a concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle, widely used in architecture as well as furniture, picture frames, metalwork and other decorative arts.

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Ceiling

A ceiling is an overhead interior roof that covers the upper limits of a room. Molding (decorative) and ceiling are ceilings.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.

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Chair

A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Molding (decorative) and chamfer are woodworking.

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Classical architecture

Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.

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Classical order

An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

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Concave polygon

A simple polygon that is not convex is called concave, non-convex or reentrant.

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Convex polygon

In geometry, a convex polygon is a polygon that is the boundary of a convex set.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall. Molding (decorative) and cornice are architectural elements.

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Crown molding

Crown moulding is a form of cornice created out of decorative moulding installed atop an interior wall. Molding (decorative) and Crown molding are architectural elements and woodworking.

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Cymatium

Cymatium, the uppermost molding at the top of the cornice in the classical order, is made of the s-shaped cyma molding (either cyma recta or cyma reversa), combining a concave cavetto with a convex ovolo.

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Dado rail

A dado rail, also known as a chair rail or surbase, is a type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room. Molding (decorative) and dado rail are woodworking.

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Dentil

A dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice. Molding (decorative) and dentil are architectural elements.

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Door

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure.

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Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow, anchor, or dart). Molding (decorative) and egg-and-dart are ornaments (architecture).

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Egyptian temple

Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and in commemoration of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and regions under Egyptian control.

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English Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century.

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Entablature

An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Molding (decorative) and entablature are architectural elements.

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Etruscan architecture

Etruscan architecture was created between about 900 BC and 27 BC, when the expanding civilization of ancient Rome finally absorbed Etruscan civilization.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France.

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Extrusion

Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile by pushing material through a die of the desired cross-section.

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Floor

A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle.

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Fluting (architecture)

Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface. Molding (decorative) and Fluting (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Gadrooning

Gadrooning is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in relief in a series.

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Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1 October 15077 July 1573), often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism.

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Glossary of architecture

This page is a glossary of architecture. Molding (decorative) and glossary of architecture are architectural elements.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Guilloché

Guilloché, or guilloche, is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was a Scottish architect.

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Keel

The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a watercraft.

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Laurus nobilis

Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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List of decorative stones

This is a geographical list of natural stone used for decorative purposes in construction and monumental sculpture produced in various countries.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Millwork

Millwork is historically any wood-mill produced decorative material used in building construction. Molding (decorative) and Millwork are woodworking.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Moulding plane

In woodworking, a moulding plane (molding plane in US spelling) is a specialised plane used for making the complex shapes found in wooden mouldings.

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Muntin

A muntin (US), muntin bar, glazing bar (UK), or sash bar is a strip of wood or metal separating and holding panes of glass in a window. Molding (decorative) and muntin are architectural elements.

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New Classical architecture

New Classical architecture, New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of Classical architecture.

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Ogee

An ogee is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine- or extended S-shape (sigmoid). Molding (decorative) and ogee are woodworking.

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Order (mouldings)

An order refers to each of a series of mouldings most often found in Romanesque and Gothic arches. Molding (decorative) and order (mouldings) are architectural elements.

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Ovolo

Ovolo is an Italian word which mean "little egg".The ovolo or echinus is a convex decorative molding profile used in architectural ornamentation.

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Parterre

A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns, made up by plant beds, plats, low hedges or coloured gravels, which are separated and connected by paths.

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Patera (architecture)

In architecture, patera is an ornamental circular or elliptical bas-relief disc.

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Pearl

A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids.

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Pendant

A pendant is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace".

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Pigment

A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Polystyrene

Polystyrene (PS) is a synthetic polymer made from monomers of the aromatic hydrocarbon styrene.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene).

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Post-war

A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war.

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Quarter round

A quarter round is a convex molding whose cross section is a quarter circle. Molding (decorative) and quarter round are architectural elements.

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Rabbet

A rabbet (American English) or rebate (British English) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood. Molding (decorative) and rabbet are woodworking.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Revivalism (architecture)

Architectural revivalism is the use of elements that echo the style of a previous architectural era that have or had fallen into disuse or abeyance between their heyday and period of revival.

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Ribbon

A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying.

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Richard Sammons

Richard Sammons (born May 18, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio) is an American architect, architectural theorist, visiting professor, and chief designer of Fairfax & Sammons Architects with offices in New York City, New York and Palm Beach, Florida.

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Rock (geology)

In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Rosette (design)

A rosette is a round, stylized flower design. Molding (decorative) and rosette (design) are ornaments (architecture).

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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Strapwork

In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms. Molding (decorative) and strapwork are ornaments (architecture).

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Taenia (architecture)

In classical architecture, a taenia (taenia) is a small "fillet" molding near the top of the architrave in a Doric column.

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The Five Orders of Architecture

The Five Orders of Architecture (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562, and is considered "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

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Theatre of Marcellus

The Theatre of Marcellus (Theatrum Marcelli, Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic.

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Thomas Sheraton

Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.

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Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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Torus

In geometry, a torus (tori or toruses) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space one full revolution about an axis that is coplanar with the circle.

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Tuscan order

The Tuscan order (Latin Ordo Tuscanicus or Ordo Tuscanus, with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order.

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Vitruvius

Vitruvius (–70 BC – after) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.

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Vocabulary

A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.

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Wall

A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative.

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Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Molding (decorative) and window are architectural elements.

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Wood

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. Molding (decorative) and wood are woodworking.

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See also

Ceilings

• Alfarje
• Arcade (architecture)
• Artesonado
• Caisson (Asian architecture)
• Catalan vault
• Ceiling
• Chandelier
• Coffer
• Dome
• Domes
• Dropped ceiling
• Golden Canopy of the Temple of the Tooth
• Illusionistic ceiling painting
• Joist
• Molding (decorative)
• Murder hole
• Oculus (architecture)
• Painted ceilings
• Plafond
• Popcorn ceiling
• Soffit
• Sound baffle
• Tile
• Truss uplift
• Wunderlich (panels)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molding_(decorative)

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