# Window cornice

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A **window cornice** is an ornamental framework of wood or composition to which window curtains are attached by rods with [rings or hooks](/source/Rings_or_hooks). Cornices are often gilded and of elaborate design, but they are less fashionable today than before it had been discovered that elaborate draperies harbor dust and microbes.[1]

Like other pieces of furniture, they have reflected taste as it passed, and many of the carefully constructed examples of the latter part of the 18th century are still in use in the rooms for which they were made. [Chippendale](/source/Thomas_Chippendale) provided a famous series still *in situ* for the gallery at [Harewood House](/source/Harewood_House), the valances of which are, like the cornices themselves, of carved and painted wood.[1]

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