dressing table
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He specializes in restoring midcentury items, such as a sideboard by the Danish designer Ib Kofod-Larsen and a dressing table by the British design company Archie Shine.
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023
“I did the calculations sitting at my wife’s dressing table because I didn’t have a desk or an office.”
From Scientific American • May 20, 2022
According to the weekly publication, some of the other pilfered items are seven gold candelabras, several Russian icons, a 10-piece silver dressing table set and St. Louis gilt crystal glassware and decanters.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022
“At one point, we had every gurney, every dressing table, every embalming table had somebody on it,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2021
Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
