History of Floral Design:Timeline

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  • Egyptian
    2800 BCE

    Egyptian

    Used flowers for decorations, garlands, wreaths and temple offerings
  • Greeks
    600 BCE

    Greeks

    Created the “horn of plenty” or the cornucopia
  • Byzantines
    320 BCE

    Byzantines

    Brought together Greek and Roman period influences
    Began to incorporate fruits within garlands
  • Romans
    28 BCE

    Romans

    Used less graceful designs compared to the greeks
    Began the use of flowers for fragrant purposes
  • Renaissance
    1400

    Renaissance

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

    Baroque

    Created symmetrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs
  • Early American

    Early American

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

    Colonial Williamsburg

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

    American Revolution

    Ideological and political revolution
  • American Federal

    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
  • Victorian

    Victorian

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

    Civil war

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

    Modern

    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

    Pearl Harbor

    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

    Cold war

    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

    9/11

    Attack on Twin Towers