FURNITURE STYLES

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FURNITURE STYLES

• From 1500s to Today a BRIEF look!

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FURNITURE STYLES

• Traditional French Furniture
• Traditional English Furniture
• Traditional American Syles
• Twentieth-Century Furniture Styles

Can you guess which examples belongs to which
category?
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Traditional French Furniture

• 1589 1820
• Evolved into seven styles
• Late Renaissance
• Baroque
• Regence
• Rococo
• Neoclassic
• Directoire
• Empire
• Important furniture developments during this
  period
• included marquetry, turnings, ormolu, and the
  cabriole leg.

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Traditional English Furniture

• Dates back to Early, Middle, and Late
• Renaissance periods.
• Early Renaissance 1500 1660
• Middle Renaissance 1660 1750
• Late Renaissance 1750 - 1901

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Traditional English Early Renaissance

• Early Renaissance (1500 1660) was considered
  the Age of Oak.
• Includes Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, and
  Cromwellian furniture styles.
• Important furniture developments were the bulbous
  form, turned and wainscot chairs, romayne work,
  and split balusters.

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Traditional English Early Renaissance
Turned Chair Wainscot Chair
Bulbous Forms
Romayne Work
Split Baluster
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Traditional English Middle Renaissance

• Middle Renaissance furniture from England (1660
  1750) marked the close of the age of oak and the
  beginning of the Age of Walnut.
• Include furniture styles such as Restoration,
  William and Mary, Queen Anne, and Early Georgian
• Important furniture develpments included Oriental
  lacquer, japanning, spooned-back splats, and
  claw-and-ball beet.

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Traditional English Middle Renaissance
Claw-and-ball feet
Chinese Lacquer
Japanning
Spoon-back splats
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Traditional English Late Renaissance

• Late Renaissance furniture from England (1750
  1901) marked the Age of Walnut and the Age of
  Satinwood.
• The period included Late Georgian styles which
  were known for high quality because of the
  renowned, master cabinetmakers and designers.
  Names like Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton,
  and the Adam Brothers are popular even today.
• The Regency and Victorian Periods followed.
• Important furniture developments included the
  ribband-back chair, painted motifs, and
  mechanical components such as secret compartments.

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Traditional English Late Renaissance
Ribband-back chairs
Mechanical components
Painted motifs
Secret compartments
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Traditional American Styles

• Furniture of early America was a mixture of many
  styles from many lands due to the colonists
  importing furniture and construction methods from
  their native homelands.
• The Traditional American period was 16301880.
• Included styles such as Early American, American
  Georgian, Federal, and Post Federal.
• Important furniture of the period included
  chests, slatback and ladder-back chairs,
  highboys, lowboys, the Windsor chair, and the
  secretary

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Twentieth-Century Furniture Styles

• The cluttered Victorian styles of the late 1880s
  caused furniture designers to react with simpler
  lines and forms.
• Styles popularized in the twentieth century are
  sometimes called Modern styles.
• They include Art Nouveau, Frank Lloyd Wright,
  Bauhaus, and Scandinavian.

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Nouveau
Bauhaus
Scandinavian
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Doris Salcedo takes ordinary objects and uses
their embodied histories, (d)evolved forms and
sheer quantities to impress upon people the
weight of time and meaning inherent in everyday
items. She has a fondness for domestic and
commonplace materials from textiles to wood
furniture that show wear and tear over time.
THE END!