History of floral design

By Edgarmora0303
  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
    typical design consisted of a single flower with a single bud or leaf on either side repeated as a unit
  • Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE

    Egyptians

    Used flowers for decoration wreaths and temple offer
    A typical design consisted of a single flower with a single bud or leaf on either side repealed as a unit
  • 600 BCE

    Greeks

    Greeks
  • Period: 600 BCE to 159 BCE

    Greeks

    Used flowers for adornment
    • Continued the use of wreaths and garlands • Created the “Horn of Plenty” or Cornucopia
  • 28 BCE

    Romans

    Romans
  • Period: 28 BCE to 325

    Romans

    Used less graceful designs compared to the Greeks in baskets and cornucopias
  • 320

    Byzantines

    Byzantines
  • Period: 320 to 600

    Byzantines

    Brought together Greek and Roman Period
    influences
    • Began to incorporate fruit within garlands
    • Placed arrangements in baskets, goblets or low containers
    – example: commonly designed trees using foliage and flowers with symmetrical principles in mind
  • 1400

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

    Created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors
    Click to return to European
    – more naturalistic look
    • Used flowers for more than religious purposes
    • Introduced the Christmas wreath

  • Baroque

    Baroque
  • Period: to

    Baroque

    Also referred to as Flemish
    • Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs

  • Early American

    Early American
  • Period: to

    Early American

    Used any flowers available and use household containers

  • Colonial williamsburg

    Colonial williamsburg
  • Period: to

    Colonial

    Placed grasses, flowers and foliage into
    fan-shaped arrangements
    • Began to mix different floral bouquets together
  • Period: to

    American revolution

    The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776

  • American federal

    American federal
  • Period: to

    American federal

    Began to focus on the charm of an
    individual flower
    • Strayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets
    • Used fewer flowers in containers
  • Period: to

    War of 1812

    War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.

  • Victorian

    Victorian
  • Period: to

    Victorian

    Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures • Placed flowers in very low containers
  • Period: to

    Civil war

    The Civil War was fought in 1861 after decades of tensions between the southern and northern states over slavery, westward expansion and state rights. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President, caused eleven states to secede from the Union beginning with South Carolina and form the Confederate States of America.
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    Ww1

    World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918.
  • Period: to

    Ww2

    World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China