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Designating furniture designed or like that designed by Thomas Chippendale an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation sculptured either in the solid wood or in the cheaper specimens separately and glued on In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized French Chippendale having much detail like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze Chinese Chippendale marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments and Gothic Chippendale attempting to adapt medieval details The forms as of the cabriole and chairbacks often resemble Queen Anne In chairs the seat is widened at the front and the back toward the top widened and bent backward except in Chinese Chippendale in which the backs are usually rectangular