Something about the lacquerwork makes the highboy seem tense and nervous, and when compared to highboys in the usual pine or maple, it must have looked wonderfully wired.
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Amid the highboys, oak bedroom sets and hickory cabinets at the world's biggest furniture and trade show, a lingering question is can the furniture industry survive.
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Persuading customers to buy at Ethan Allen Interiors Inc ., which makes and sells its own furniture, requires more patience and finesse than carving the finials on Chippendale highboys.
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So I stroll amidst the paint jobs, the highboys and low cars, the chrome, the carefully painted flames, the pleats and rolls, the chops and channels.
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"However, the bill does have flaws, " he says chirpily, as if pointing out small, irrelevant wear marks on an otherwise perfect Chippendale highboy.
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Today Soap Hollow chests of drawers are way out of reach for average collectors, usually in the same price range as 1700s Queen Anne highboys or a medium priced automobile.
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This high chest of drawers, also known as a highboy or tallboy, is part of the Decorative Arts collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Whereas the chest of drawers in its familiar form contains three long and two short drawers, the highboy has five, six, or seven long drawers, and two short ones.
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Most of the furniture in the new sale is what Redden calls " American country " : flat-topped highboys, plain-front bureaus, gate-leg tables, Windsor chairs.
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But the Parkers wanted their own furniture _ and it was big furniture : a four-poster bed, a highboy, a wide multidrawered dresser and a well-padded queen-sized sofa bed.
