alcove
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recessed area open from a larger room but enclosed by architectural elements
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bedroom
- Subclass of
- architectural element
- Has part
- box-bed
- Image
- Celle, Residenzmuseum, Schlafzimmer.JPG
- Said to be same as
- bedroom
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- Commons category
- Alcoves (interior architectural element)
- name
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Encyclopedic overview
A semi-dome surmounting an alcove in the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
In architecture, an alcove is a small recessed section of a room or an arched opening (as in a wall). The section is partially enclosed by such vertical elements as walls, pillars, and balustrades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “alcove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.