The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the...

escape. A fireplace may have the following: a foundation, a hearth, a firebox, a mantel, a chimney crane (used in kitchen and laundry fireplaces), a grate...

Look up Mantel or mantel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mantel may refer to: Mantel, Germany, a town in Bavaria, Germany Fireplace mantel, a framework...

consisting of fire brick masonry at floor level or higher, underneath the fireplace mantel. The word hearth derives from an Indo-European root, *ker-, referring...

wood, or crackle of a burning log. Energy portal Firebox Fireplace insert Fireplace mantel Wood-fired oven Museums. "08. Electric fire Museums". www...

Plastic Coating. The name Fireplace is a reference to the fact that the wood used to make the neck came from a fireplace mantel. A guitar that would define...

Mantel clocks—or shelf clocks—are relatively small house clocks traditionally placed on the shelf, or mantel, above the fireplace. The form, first developed...

room, as well as furnishings from the former royal lodge and a marble fireplace mantel in the regency Graeco-Egyptian style. The present cottage has four...

into Bill's house was a large photo of Johnnie as a toddler on her fireplace mantel. Her character appears in the film The Lost Prince, where she is played...

Service corridor leading up to building façade carved marble fireplace mantel over a fireplace Open pediment over doorway Ornamental moldings and fresco...

Robert E. Lee, an offer that Lee declined. In the Truman Study is a fireplace mantel that was originally installed in the White House. It was removed to...

three bags of gold directly into the stockings, which were hung by the fireplace to dry. This led to the custom of children hanging stockings or putting...

(1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. Fine Woodworking, Build a Fireplace Mantel, Mario Rodriquez, pgs. 73, 75, The Taunton Press, No. 184, June 2006...

its Western counterpart: the fireplace. This gesture became more of a ceremonial core in his architecture. Fireplace mantel Higashiyama culture in the Muromachi...

expensive Teutonic furniture, a large globe, and an expansive red marble fireplace mantel. Behind one wall was a projection booth for evening screenings of films...

Nouveau corbel in Brussels (Belgium) Atlas (architecture) Dentil Eaves Fireplace mantel Modillion Muqarnas See for example, Maes Howe, a particularly fine...

candelabra existed in other forms. The candelabra may be placed on a fireplace mantel, table, guéridon, and torchère, or if large, on the floor. In England...

where there is fire in the fireplace. View from fireplace mantel: President Barack Obama from the back sitting near the fireplace with view toward desk, Rose...

busts or curiosities. An overmantel serves a similar function above a fireplace mantel. From the end of the 16th century, at first in interiors such as the...

his smooth and surprisingly chiseled chest, he easily leaps onto the fireplace mantel where he begins dancing, then flies down in a smooth leap that demonstrates...

Next to the lobby was an elevator lobby with a black-and-white marble fireplace mantel, as well as white walls with pilasters. The elevator lobby was illuminated...

Briggle for Van Briggle Pottery (1904), Metropolitan Museum of Art Fireplace mantel, attributed to Émile Müller (c. 1904), Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris...

" Stuart's 1804 portrait of Dolley Madison also was hung here. The fireplace mantel was one of two originally purchased by President James Monroe in 1817...

eventually used the house as their primary residence. The Foulkes added a fireplace mantel in the parlor but are not known to have made any other modifications...

radio also called a "Mantel radio" - A self-contained radio with speaker designed to sit on a table, cabinet, or fireplace mantel. Table radios typically...

the fountain, Csaky designed Doucet's staircase, Lipchitz made the fireplace mantel, and Marcoussis made a Cubist rug. The original Cubist architecture...

was moved to the Blue Room). Monroe also purchased in 1817 for the fireplace mantels four gilt bronze candelabra, designed and manufactured by the French...

some elements taken from the original, including the front door, a fireplace mantel, some stained glass, and a steppingstone, engraved with the name Wallace...

trompe-l'œil technique; simple paneling on the walls; and a marble fireplace mantel. There is a kitchen to the east of the dining room. The parlor, west...

Empire style. An 1817 fireplace mantel was removed from the State Dining Room and used in the Green Room, displacing its original mantel.[citation needed]...