Word: cabinetwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cars are the stars. Built mostly in the late 1920s, they are jewels of art deco crystal and cabinetwork. Some were discovered, rotted and unrecognizable, on remote railroad sidings. One had been used as a brothel in Limoges during World War II; another had been tenderly maintained by a schoolmaster at Eton. Each car had to be equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from...
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