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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Brusttäfer

English translation:

Boiserie

Added to glossary by monbuckland
Mar 2, 2011 11:30
13 yrs ago
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German term

Brusttäfer

German to English Tech/Engineering Architecture
This is panelling of some kind in a chapel. At another point "Chortäfer" mean, I think, the wooden panelling in the choir. Is there a particular English term for "Brusttäfer"?
The sentence in question:
"Im Brusttäfer sind 19 Leinwandbilder aus dem 17. Jh. eingelassen."
Proposed translations (English)
4 Boiserie
3 +2 wainscoting / wainscot panelling
3 High Panelling
References
A translation found on the www
Brusttäfer
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Mar 2, 2011 11:46: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering"

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Boiserie

Boiserie (often used in the plural boiseries) is the term used to define ornate and intricately carved wood panelling. Early examples of boiseries were unpainted, but later the raised mouldings were often painted or gilded. Boiseries were popular in seventeenth and eighteenth century French interior design and the Palace of Versailles has many fine examples. The panels were not confined just to the walls of a room but were also used to decorate doors, frames, cupboards and shelves. Often pictures would be set into the boiseries, the carving framing the picture rather like a conventional frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panelling

See pic of elaborate boiseries in the guild hall of the Zunfthaus zu Kaufleuten, Kramgasse 29, Berne.



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boiserie

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | JAMES STEVENS CURL | 700+ words | © A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright
boiserie.
1. Wainscoting.

2. Wooden panelling, usually from floor to ceiling, on interior walls, embellished with carvings in low relief, gilding, inlay, etc., common in C17 and C18. Excellent Rococo boiseries include work by François-Antoine Vassé (1681–1736), Jacques Verberckt (1704–71), and Jules Degoullons (c.1671–1737), which clearly influenced Cuvilliés and Knobelsdorff at Munich and Berlin. Some of the finest boiseries were those for the Amalienberg, Nymphenburg, Munich, designed by Cuvilliés and made (1734–9) by Wenzeslaus Miroffsky (d.1759) and Johann Dietrich (d.1753), with stucco work by J. B. Zimmermann. Such French-inspired work reached heights of exquisite delicacy in Germany.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-boiserie.html

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Thanks, monbuckland
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful and detailed answers. In this context I'm going with "boiseries"."
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wainscoting / wainscot panelling

Peer comment(s):
agree Coqueiro
33 mins
agree Ingeborg Gowans (X) : good research and convincing!
34 mins
neutral Helen Shiner : In general wainscoting only covers the lower half of a wall and would not be appropriate for the insertion of works of art, which need to be hung higher./Thanks, Steffen
2 hrs
You do have a point here.
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7 hrs

High Panelling

As explained in the following section wainscoting is usually added to the lower section of a wall. The word Brusttäfer rather suggests something a little higher. This website differentiates between high and low panelling as can be seen by the photos.

Interestingly, Helen, the Wikipedia entry is also included in the description. I wonder who took it from whom.

Panelling is a blanket term for wall coverings constructed from rigid or semirigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials. Panelling was developed in antiquity, to make rooms in stone buildings more comfortable. The panels served to insulate the room from the cold stone. In more modern buildings such panelling is often installed for decorative purposes. Panelling such as wainscoting and boiserie in particular may be extremely ornate, and are particularly associated with 17th and 18th century interior design, Victorian architecture in Britain and its international contemporaries. Wainscot or wainscoting was originally a panelling style applied to the lower 1.2 to 1.5 m of an interior wall, below the dado rail or chair rail and above the skirting board or baseboard. It is traditionally constructed from tongue-and-groove boards, though beadboard or decorative panels (such as a wooden door might have) are also common. Wainscoting may also refer to other materials used in a similar fashion. Its original purpose was to cover the lower part of walls which, in houses constructed with poor or nonexistent damp-proof courses, are often affected by rising dampness. The panelling's purpose is now generally decorative. Boiserie (often used in the plural boiseries) is the term to used to define ornate and intricately carved wood panelling. Early examples of boiseries were unpainted, but later the raised moldings were often painted or gilded. Boiseries were popular in 17th and 18th century French interior design and the Palace of Versailles has many fine examples. The panels were not confined just to the walls of a room but were also used to decorate doors, frames, cupboards and shelves. Often pictures would be set into the boiseries, the carving framing the picture rather like a conventional frame.
Reference:

http://www.rmills.co.uk/highpanelling.php#a1

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Reference:

A translation found on the www

Das Hotel entstand 1894. Viele original Details schmücken das Haus aussen und innen wie die reich mit floralen Motiven verzierte Eingangstür und der Speisesaal mit beeindruckenden Jugendstil-Leuchtern. Alle Räume sind mit mit echtem Brusttäfer ausgestattet.

The hotel was built in 1894. Many of the original details remain, both outside and inside, such as the entrance richly decorated with floral motifs, and the dining room with impressive Art Nouveau lights. All rooms are furnished in traditional alpine style.

http://www.myswitzerland.com/files/?id=657
Note from asker:
Yeah, thanks, but this doesn't translate the term, does it? in fact, the English sentence doesn't translate the German sentence at all.
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Reference:

Brusttäfer

Der heute als Gotthardsaal bezeichnete ehemalige Verwaltungsratssaal der Gotthardbahn-Gesellschaft gehört zu den wertvollsten Innenräumen des Historismus in Luzern. Das ganz aus Nussbaumholz geschaffene Interieur umfasst ein reich verziertes Brusttäfer mit Nischen im Stil der Neurenaissance. Die darüber angebrachten gobelinartigen Stoffmalereien zeigen landschaftliche Szenen mit Kunstbauten der Gotthardbahn. Sie wurden vom Inneneinrichtungshaus A. Ballié, Basel, nach Fotografien ausgeführt, welche der renommierte französische Fotograf Adolphe Braun für die Gotthardbahn-Gesellschaft erstellt hatte. Der dreiteilige grosse Tisch mit den lederbezogenen Stühlen wurde vom Luzerner Möbelfabrikanten F. Herzog angefertigt. Im Rahmen des Umbaus des Gotthardgebäudes zum Gerichtsgebäude wurde der Saal nach den Vorgaben der Denkmalpflege restauriert.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthardgebäude

(see the pic part way down this page)

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An alternative word for Brusttäfer is Brustlambris:

http://de.academic.ru/dic.nsf/pierer/200840/Lambris
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