Accent Colors Strong, contrasting colors used in sparingly to enliven room schemes. Acorn Turning Ornament resembling an acorn. Used as finials on chair and bed posts, as pendants , and as feet in table legs. Characteristic of Jacobean furniture. Adam Furniture designed by the 18th-Century English architects Robert and James Adam, in the same Pompeiian classicism which marked their houses.
Pieces are delicate and slim, and have simple straight lines and restrained ornamentation.
Adaptation A piece of furniture made in imitation of another piece, and which captures the flavor of the original but is not authentic in detail or construction. Contrast Replica . American Colonial Any American furniture made or used in the Colonies before the Revolution. Later furniture consisted of more decorative, refined designs, reflecting growing prosperity. A bed with a canopy but no front support.