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Cornice

A cornice is a culmination of a continuous projecting element, a piece of furniture ( wardrobe , for example) or structure. The cornice is mostly horizontal, but can also be pitched if it develops along the railing of a pediment for example. Its use to drain water without damage to the facade, and also serves to underscore certain lines of the building, as the distinction between floors.

Summary

1 Types of cornice
- 1.1 The cornice beauvaisine
2 See also
3 References

Types of cornice

Ledge of a residence in San Francisco
Forms of cornices from the Cambridge 1922

The cornice beauvaisine

The cornice is a type of beauvaisine cornice carved with a series of arcs with two cons-arches. It is widespread in the region of Beauvais in the ^twelfth century ^{See also}

Bibliography

Research Centre on the historic buildings, cornices and ceiling profiles, Ministry of Culture, communication, great work and the Bicentennial, Heritage Branch, Paris, 1990, 2 vols. : V. 1 From the late ^{seventeenth to} the 3rd quarter of the eighteenth ^century, v. 2 From Louis XVI at the time of the Restoration ( ISBN 2-11-086067-7 )
Michel Fragnet, Cornices, engineering services roads and highways, Technology Centre of Structures, Cell equipment bridges, Bagneux, 1994, 96 p. ( ISBN 2-11-085755-2 )
Rondeau, Maurice Pons, Stphane Rondeau, Techniques and practice of staff, Eyrolles, October 2004 ( ISBN 2-212-11546-6 , 978-2-212-11546-8 and 9782212115468 )