CANE - Chair seats and backs made from woven strips of rattan
CANTILEVER - Structure sticking out from a wall with no apparent means of support. A twentieth-
century architect's device to hang balconies on a building
CARRIAGE CLOCK - is a small, spring-driven clock, designed for travelling, developed in the early
19th century in France. The case, usually plain or gilt-brass, is rectangular with a carrying handle and
often set with glass or more rarely enamel or porcelain panels. A feature of carriage clocks is the
platform escapement, sometimes visible through a glazed aperture on the top of the case.
CARYATID - column with a recognizable female conformation used to hold up a top of sorts.
CASUAL - Much-used, much-abused term designating a room geared to informal living
CERAMIC - Clay contributes many varied ingredients to the arts of decoration.
CHAISE LONGUE - Elongated chair with a firm support for the back.
CHANDELIER - Evolved from the French word for candle which means a lighting device that dangles
from the ceiling. Chandelier lighting fixtures are the ultimate lighting fixtures to make a big statement.
Just look at those multi-layer crystal chandeliers in the lobbies of some fancy opera houses. It says
luxury, glamour, drama, and upper class living. Many families like to hang expensive chandeliers in
their formal living room, dining room or master bed room. It is like a status symbol that reminds
people of the old world charm. A really good chandelier can also be a piece of antique art that will be
treasured from generation to generation.
CHIC - Understated up-to-date approach to interior decorating
CHENILLE - Furry yarn with short pile projecting outward used to produce thick carpeting, bedspreads
etc.
CHINOISERIE - Motifs of Chinese designs adapted to Western furniture
CLERESTORY WINDOWS - Small windows near the ceiling that usually follow the roof line
COMMODE - A low chest of drawers or cabinet that is set against a wall
CONSOLE - A table set against or supported by a wall
CONTEMPORARY ART - can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art
produced since World War Two. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view,
but Museums of Contemporary Art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced
since World War Two.
CONVERSATION PIT - A seating group that is dropped below the regular floor level of the rest of the
room.
CORNER BLOCKS - Reinforcement blocks of wood wedged into joints of chair or table frames
CORNY - Embarrasingly unsophisticated
CORNICE - Molding on the top of a wall, column, or window used for decoration
CREDENZA - Buffet or Sideboard
CUBISM - Cubism was a 20th century art movement that revolutionized European painting and
sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. It developed as a short but highly
significant art movement between about 1907 and 1914 in France. In cubist artworks, objects are
broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form — instead of depicting objects from one
viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a
greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles presenting no coherent
sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the
ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism
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