History of Floral Design:Timeline

Egyptian

2800 BCE

Used flowers for decorations, garlands, wreaths and temple offerings

Greeks

600 BCE

Created the “horn of plenty” or the cornucopia

Byzantines

320 BCE

Brought together Greek and Roman period influences
Began to incorporate fruits within garlands

Romans

28 BCE

Used less graceful designs compared to the greeks
Began the use of flowers for fragrant purposes

Renaissance

1400

Created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors
Introduced the Christmas wreath

Baroque

1600

Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs

Early American

1620

Created arrangements for personal adornment and decorations around the home
Used any flower available and placed all arrangements into household containers

Colonial Williamsburg

1740

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

American Revolution

1775

Ideological and political revolution

American Federal

1780

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

Victorian

1820

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

Civil war

1861

Fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America

Modern

1910

Combined line elements from the Japanese and mass from the Europeans
Marked the beginning of a container made specifically to hold flowers and small bouquets

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu

Cold war

1947

Period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II.

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

Attack on Twin Towers