Carved Lake Constance Cupboard

Spruce and fir wood is one of the domestic softwoods. It was used as solid wood for rural and simple furniture. For fine veneered furniture, the softwood served as a substrate for the applied veneer.

We use the term "fluting" to refer to vertical structuring by parallel grooves or furrows.

A pilaster is a wall pillar used instead of a voluminous column, which can be found on the pilasters of antique cupboards and chests of drawers.

The term volute is used to describe a spiral ornament.

The volute was already a popular decorative element in antiquity and was used, among other things, in the capitals of Ionic columns.

The festoon is one of the typical decorative elements of classicism. It is a garland-shaped decorative motif that is often decorated with flowers, leaves and fruits.

The Schinkel roof or Schinkel gable is the triangular gable that we often find as the upper end of Biedermeier furniture.

A frieze is a horizontal stripe with ornamental or figurative decoration.