Contrasting color: Beyond the translation. From Google Books, passim.

[Mark Kohut]

Seems the Dutch---famous in a tangential way with Dutch cabinets--- and the
Germans did do lots of door designs that migrated.
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German brick houses in Missouri follow contemporary German designs rather
than the Renaissance form of the ... Double, heavily paneled doors with
wroughtiron latches, occasional ornamental lintels of classic design in
stone, brick, or wood, and ...

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Moreover, at Augsburg, as in these southern examples, the doors are not
> cast in one piece, but consist of separately cast panels nailed on to wood.
> This is in direct contrast to what we have seen at Aachen, Mainz and
> Hildesheim. The Italian ...
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Floors, beams, and heavy doors for barns and granaries were made of
> walnut which served their purpose a generation or more, and ... as inlay.
> ln work of that kind. the purpose was to produce contrasts of colors and
> that end was attained by inserting highly colored veneer ...
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>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>    German Folk Art - Page 28
>>>    <https://books.google.com/books?id=LCDaAAAAMAAJ&q='contrasting+wood+in+German+doors&dq='contrasting+wood+in+German+doors&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs3cCi08LKAhVGOyYKHcjsB244ChDoAQhbMAg>
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>>>    <https://books.google.com/books?id=LCDaAAAAMAAJ&q='contrasting+wood+in+German+doors&dq='contrasting+wood+in+German+doors&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs3cCi08LKAhVGOyYKHcjsB244ChDrAQhcMAg>
>>>    https://books.google.com/books?id=LCDaAAAAMAAJ
>>>    Ernst Schlee
>>>    <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1324&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Ernst+Schlee%22&ved=0ahUKEwjs3cCi08LKAhVGOyYKHcjsB244ChD0CAhdMAg> -
>>>    1980 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
>>>    <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1324&bih=876&tbm=bks&q=editions:pU9cT83lFxUC&ved=0ahUKEwjs3cCi08LKAhVGOyYKHcjsB244ChCYFgheMAg>
>>>    Columns are a frequent ornament on door-posts, indicating the change
>>>    from older designs to Baroque and Classicism. ... the large wooden panels
>>>    were sometimes bisected by diagonal lines and the triangular fields painted
>>>    in contrasting colors ...
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