The choice furniture is arranged among paintings, girandole mirrors, lamps, porcelain and silver that would once have been prized by the carriage trade knocking on Phyfe's showroom door.
WSJ: Duncan Phyfe | Furniture for a Young Nation | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer
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girandole:
From French girandole, from Italian girandola, from girare ?(“to turn, gyrate”)