A. Window and door surrounds cover the spaces between wall posts and the door frame. Door and window parts. Furniture and the decorative arts are the objects that organize and fill the spaces created by architecture. A. Furniture is different from architecture principally in the scale of the objects and in their moveability. The French call furniture meubles, meaning moveables.
Furniture uses forces in construction that are rare in buildings.
For example the tension shell, of a windsor chair. B. Furniture and buildings are similar in many ways. They share framing systems, turnings, and moldings, finish. Materials are often the same. Both of construction and finish.