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Title: Furniture Styles


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Furniture Styles
  • Interior Design
  • Mrs. Crusan

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Jacobean Style17th Century
  • Heavy rectangular with geometric or floral
    carvings.
  • Rounded forms such as legs spindles, method
    called turning.
  • Stools benches more common than chairs High,
    straight backs with plank seats and no cushion.
  • Made from oak at first, then maple, beech, ash
    and hickory. Often painted black, red, or
    yellow.
  • Chests and cupboards for storage.
  • Draw-top table the leaves are pushed under when
    the table is not in use.

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Jacobean Table
Jacobean Chair
Jacobean Sideboard
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William and Mary Style1700-1725
  • Dutch French influenced.
  • Chairs w/curved backs woven seats.
  • Lighter w/fine carvings and trims.
  • Velvets and silks used to upholster chairs, made
    of walnut, birch, and maple.
  • Table the 2nd most common piece. Called a
    gateleg table (legs on each side swing out to
    support drop leaves that are pulled up from the
    sides.
  • Highboy is a chest of drawers mounted on legs.
    Used for clothing storage (no closets). Brass
    fixtures.

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William Mary Highboy
William Mary Chair
Gateleg Table
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Queen Anne StyleEarly 18th Century
  • Adopted by colonists popular with the middle
    class.
  • Known for graceful, curved lines-slender
    flowing.
  • Cabriole leg Leg that curves out at the middle
    then tapers inward just above an ornamental foot.
  • Brought innovations in sofa chair styles-
    Upholstered and more comfortable.
  • Wing chair Arm chair with high back side
    (wings) helped to keep warm air close.
  • Windsor chair turned legs and spindle back
    inserted in a saddle shaped seat. Still popular
    today.

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Wing Chair
Windsor Chair
Queen Anne Table
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Chippendale StyleMid to Late 18th Century
  • Evolved from Thomas Chippendales book of
    furniture designs use of mahogany wood.
  • Mahogany wood made furniture appear heavier and
    more solid a change from the Queen Ann Style.
  • S-Shaped chairs and table legs ending in claw
    ball feet were a common feature.
  • Camelback sofa was a Chippendale design.
    Distinctive for curved back and sides.
  • Decorations or carvings on the furniture often
    showed shells, leaves, flowers.

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Chippendale Secretary
Chippendale Chair
Camelback Sofa
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Federal Style1780-1820
  • Most popular in NY, Washington D.C., and
    Philadelphia,
  • the federal Capitals.
  • Designs are small rectangular and the furniture
    is light,
  • delicate and symmetrical.
  • Two English designers named Hepplewhite
    Sheraton
  • changed the original designs.
  • Hepplewhite style chair has tapered legs
    decorative back
  • in the shape of a shield, oval or heart.
  • Sheratons chairs had rectangular or square backs
  • slender, tapered legs.

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Hepplewhite Chair
Buffet
Sofa
12
Empire Style1820-1840
  • Originally created by Napoleon's architects and
    interior designers. In America it flourished for
    about 20 years.
  • The style is elaborate much more dramatic than
    the Federal style. The copying of ancient
    furniture.
  • Incorporated Egyptian decoration like symbols
    carvings.
  • Most famous American Empire designer was Duncan
    Phyfe- Used many classical designs like leaves,
    swans, eagles, and dolphins, as well as
    urn-shaped pedestals and a dogs-paw and
    lions-paw feet.
  • Well known for chair back shaped like a lyre.

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Duncan Phyfe Chair
Duncan Phyfe Table
Chaise
14
Shaker Style
  • Existed along with Federal Empire Styles.
  • Created by religious group in New England called
    the Shakers.
  • Plain and simple style. Emphasis on utility
    (use), not the ornamentationno carvings, few or
    simple knobs.
  • More popular now than it was in the 1800s.
  • Graceful lines well-proportioned.

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Victorian Style1840-1900
  • The revival of many old styles- Gothic,
    Elizabethan, Italian Renaissance.
  • Sofas chairs distinguished by their curving
    lines, inlaid floral patterns, rich upholstery.
  • Tables, desks, cabinets are very ornate and
    heavy looking.
  • Marble, iron, and brass also used in the making
    of the furniture pieces.
  • Belter chair one of most famous results of
    Victorian era furniture. Steaming bending wood.
    Gave the chair the name bentwood chair.

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Bentwood Chair
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Modern Period1901-Present
  • William Morris who lead the reform of the
    Victorian Style, also looked ahead to the Modern
    period.
  • First 2 decades of 20th century designers became
    interested in simpler forms, many forms were
    abstract.
  • Modern furniture used very little decoration and
    it was made with fewer parts and was built out of
    newly invented materials

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International Style
  • A plain, functional style developed by Walter
    Gropius a German architect, considered completely
    nontraditional.
  • Early designs abandoned the use of wood and other
    natural materials and started using chrome-plated
    steel tubing, plastics, metals, and chrome.
  • Modern Scandinavian designers have added back the
    use of wood, but very simple, natural, and
    hand-rubbed finishes.
  • Technique gives furniture a distinctive
    machine-made look.

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Contemporary Style
  • Time we live in still termed Modern, general
    trend toward softening the harshness of early
    Modern designs. Sometimes hard to tell between
    the two, but some of these points set
    contemporary apart
  • Arent confined to one nation or continent.
  • Usually use architectural materials such as
    marble, wood, glass, stone, plastics.
    Furniture arranged so shape stands out against a
    simple background. Bold design or color may be
    used.
  • Furniture shapes designed for the human form.
  • Modular furniture part of the style. Modular
    furniture consists of pieces that can fit
    together in a variety of ways.

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Miscellaneous Furniture
Saarinen
Miller
Morris
Belter
Barcelona
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