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5 unusual facts about Chippendale


Chippendale, New South Wales

The John Storey Memorial Dispensary was built in 1926 as a memorial to John Storey, a former Premier of New South Wales.

Mexico Academy and Central School

The entry is distinguished by a two story, five bay portico supported by six Ionic columns and crowned by a Chippendale patterned balustrade.

Seymour Centre

It is located on the corner of City Rd and Cleveland St in Chippendale, an inner-circle suburb, just south-west of the city centre.

Window Cornice

Chippendale provided a famous series still in situ for the gallery at Harewood House, the valances of which are, like the cornices themselves, of carved and painted wood.

Winslow Crocker House

Thacher's collection of furniture, accented by colorful hooked rugs, ceramics, and pewter, presents a thorough survey of early American styles, from Jacobean, William and Mary, and Queen Anne to Chippendale.


Chipps Chippendale

Chippendale is generally credited with popularising singlespeed mountain biking in the UK - an idea he claims to have stolen from Bike magazine's editor Mike Ferrentino - and is a collaborator in The Outcast, an underground singlespeed fanzine.

Francis Trumble

Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Federal styles.

James Chippendale

In 2003, Chippendale founded cancer charity the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LSHF) with fellow survivor Mike Peters, a Welsh rock musician with The Alarm.

Maine Central School

It features a low hipped roof crowned by a multi-stage cupola with a Chippendale-inspired balustrade in the Colonial Revival style.

Nathaniel Hill Brick House

Much of the original design and appointments (including some Chippendale furniture pieces) remain, though improvements have been made.

Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet

Other new furnishings, for Aske and for Sir Lawrence's magnificently appointed London house at 19 Arlington Street, were supplied by Thomas Chippendale (1763–66), and Chippendale's rivals, the royal cabinet-makers William Vile and John Cobb, and Samuel Norman (Gilbert).

Stiftsgården

The King’s Study is furnished with a set of Chippendale-style furniture designed by architect Axel Guldahl and crafted by cabinet maker A. Kvenild for the same occasion.

The Great Automatic Grammatizator

Parson's Pleasure (from Kiss Kiss): A man discovers an extremely rare piece of Chippendale furniture at the farm of some boorish ranchers.


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