Rustic furniture
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Rustic furniture is furniture employing sticks, twigs or logs for a natural look. The term "rustic" is derived from Latin rusticus. The style is rooted in Romantic tradition. In the US it is almost sy
A typical Adirondack chair (2010, Ohio)
Rustic coffee table with cedar and mountain laurel branches
Bentwood
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Bentwood objects are made by wetting wood, then bending it and letting it harden into curved shapes and patterns.
Rustic furniture
…laurel, and Alaska cedar. In the American South, palm fronds were occasionally employed. There are two basic types of rustic-furniture construction: bentwood (sticks are harvested fresh or steamed to make them supple, then bent into a variety of structures and decorative shapes) and twig work (sticks…
No. 14 chair
Cradle by Gebrüder Thonet (c. 1870)
A red cedar Tsimshian bentwood box dating from the 1880s, on display at the UBC Museum of Anthropology