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Roman Design
Rome 200 B.C. to A.D. 400
Roman arches were used in building and bridge designs. -
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Roman Design
Rome 200 B.C to A.D 400
Other building designs included the triangular, segmenta, and scroll pediment -
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Renaissance Design
The Renaissanc 1420-1650
Renaissance textiles were rich and vibrant with reds, blues, golds, and greens. Lare-scale florals, artichoke and pomegranate were the used patterns. Plain and figured velvet, tapestry, silk brocade, and damask were the main textures in the fabrics. -
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Renaissance Design
The Renaissance 1420-1650
Furniture like the Savonarola and Dante chair. -
The English Influence in America
The seventeenth century English Medievel Style 1608-95
Bewster and Carvr Chair -
The English Influence in America
The seventeenth century English Medievel Style 1608-95
Sunflower chest -
English Influence in America
The seventeenth century English Medievel Style 1608-95
Gateleg Table -
The English Influence in America
The early Georgian Style 1695-1750
Queen Anne highboy -
The English Influence in America
The early Georgian Style 1695-1750
Queen Anne armchair -
The English Influence in America
The early Georgian Style 1695-1750
Queen Anne tea table -
The English Influence in America
The early Georgian Style 1695-1750
Queen Anne wing chair -
The English Influence in America
The early Georgian Style 1695-1750
Early Georgian textiles were vibrant in blue, green and rose. Authentic or adapted Rnaissance floral sprays for patterns. The usual textures were woven damasks ad brocades, velvets, and some plain or satin textures. -
Vernacular Design
THe Vernacular Tradition 1700 to present
Ladder back chair, bow-back windsor chair, comb-back chair, and hitchcock chair. -
Vernacular Design
The Vernacular Tradition 1700 to present
Welsh Dresse/hutch, gateleg table, and butterfly table -
Vernacular Design
The Vernacular Tradition 1700 to present
Vernacular textiles were in natural colours or neutrals, and colours that came from natural sources-madder or cranberry red, indigo blue, dull gold from birch or other plants. The patterns were simple stripes and checks, stenciled or embroidered floral or folk patterns. Homespun, muslin, flannel, broadcloth, burlap, ticking and hand-spun coarse textures. -
Influences in America
Shaker influence, swedish influence, german influence, dutch influence, french influence. -
French Design
French Rococo/Louis XV Design 1715-23
Rococo Fauteuil open arm -
Baroque Design
Last designs from the Renaissance. Same columns, pediments, round arches and so on but exaggereated scale and ornamentation. -
Spanish Influence and Design
Southwest Adobe style, the California Ranch house, Monterey Design.
Southwest textiles- authentic Spanish which are dramatic and bold red, gold, and black. Or dull, sun-drenched, very livable colours. The dull pastel colours have influenced Western trends of recent years. The influences from Latin America gives accent colours of brilliant blue-green, chartreuse, vivid violet, and sunshine yellow. Patterns are geometric patterns based on American Indian motifs, stripes. -
French Design
Country French Design 1774-93
Country French Sleigh Bed -
French Design
French Neoclassical/Louis XVI Design 1774-93
french neoclassical bureau plat writing desk -
The English Influence in America
The Late Georgian Style 1750-1790
Chippendale side chair, ladder-back chair and chinese chippendale chair -
The English Influence in America
The Late Georgian Style 1750-1790
chippendale block front chest -
The English Influence in America
The Late Georgian Style 1750-1790
chippendale breakfront -
Greek/American Design
The Greek Revival/American Empire Style 1820-1860
American empire textiles. Rich vivid red, gold, deep green, brown, and royal purple. Softened to pale mauve, spun honey, dull greens and browns, and dull gray-violet. Plain satin backgrounds with isolated small motifs such as the laural wreath, the star or snowflake, honeybee, or classical urns. The textures were plain satin, antique taffeta and silk textures, various sheer and semisheer fabrics. -
Greek/American Design
The Greek Revival/American Empire Style 1820-1860
Duncan Phyfe Chair -
Greek/American Design
The Greek Revival/American Empire Style 1820-1860
American Empire Console Table -
Greek/American Design
The Greek Revival/American Empire Style 1820-1860
Duncan Phyfe Flap-top Table -
Greek/American Design
The Greek Revival/American Empire Style 1820-1860
American Empire Fainting sofa/grecian sofa -
Federal Design
Federal Style 1790-1830
Hepplewhite sideboard. Also the hepplewhite/sheration style pembroke table -
Federal Design
Federal Style 1790-1830
Hepplewhite bow-back sofa. Also the sheration square-back chair and hepplewhite shield-back chair. -
Federal Design
The Federal Style 1790-1830
Federal textiles. Usually pastels, light, creamy dull colours accentewith white or a little bit of rich colours. Fine stripes, garlands, bows, ribbons, oval shapes, classic Greek and Roman urns and motifs, tiny florals;in America also pinapples. The textures were usually plain satin, refined damask and brocade, plain and antique taffeta, batiste, moire, voile, chintz. -
Victorian Design
The Victorian Age in America 1837-1901
Victorian Belter/Rococo Revival Armchair -
Victorain Design
The Victorian Age in America 1837-1901
Victorian Belter/ Rococo Revival Table -
Modern Design 1885 to present
Early modern Devopements Arts and Crafts 1860-1920
Corbu Chair Michael Thonet -
The Beaux Design
The Beaux Arts Influence 1881-1945
Elegant, refine, and historical houses. Steep roofs, stone and brick exterior, large windows. -
Modern Design 1885 to present
Early Modern Developments ArtNouveau 1890-1910
Art Nouveau Design Hill CHair CHarles Riennie Mackintosh -
Greek Design
Greese fifth century B.C.
Furniture like the greek klismos with saber legs -
Greek Design
Greese, fifth century B.C
Different Greek disigns like the columns, doric, ionic, and corinthian. -
Principal Directions in Modern Architecture
Organic Architecture 1908 to present
Exterior: materials harmonize with nature, architectural forms in harmony with the setting, well-etablished relationship from the inside of the house to the outdoors, flexible floor plan. David B. Gamble House 1980, Pasadena, California; Greene and Greene, architects -
Principal Directions in Modern Architecture
Art Deco 1918-45
Grand Confort Le Corbusier
Slick modern but highly ornate and decorative -
Principal Derections in Modern Archiecture
The Internattional Style 1932-present
pony chaise le corbusier
exterior: open plan, simple, logical, rectilinear structural forms, generally flat roofed, asymmetrical, large areas of glass, use of concrete, stucco, and metal, long, uninterruptd white wall planes, contrasts with setting -
Principal Derections in Modern Architecture
Scandinavian and Postwar Design
Pedestal Chair Eero Saarinen
Designers made important contributions to modern furniture manufacture, exploiting new materials as well as earlier methods such as bending wood. -
Middle Ages Design
The Middle Ages 800 to 1500
The church used large stain glass windows, romanesque arches, gothic designs. The houses were plain, steep roofs, small windows and often had an overhang at each story.
