Furniture Styles Jacobean 1600 1780 Heavy rectangular pieces

Furniture Styles

Jacobean 1600 -1780 • Heavy, rectangular pieces • Rounded legs - turnings

Trestle Table

Chair Table

Trundle Bed

William & Mary 1700 -1725 • Feature chairs with curved backs & rush seats • Delicate • Lightness compared to Jacobean • Fine carvings • VENEERED – fine wood layered over less expensive wood

Gateleg Table • Legs swung out to support leaves of tab

Highboy • Chest of drawers mounted on legs

Queen Anne 1720 -1755 • Japanning – glossy black lacquer finish • Upholstered • Comfortable

Windsor Chair • Stick legs & spindles driven into plank seat

Highboy • Cabroile legs – legs curved out at middle & tapered inward just above an ornamental foot

Wing Chair • Upholstered chair with high back & sides • Designed to protect from drafts

Chippendale mid 1700 • Mahogany Wood • Shells, leaves, & flowers carved • S-shaped legs ending in ball & claw foot • Heavier & more solid

Highboy • Shell and flower design • Ball and claw foot • Mahogany wood

Ball and Claw Foot

Chippendale

Camel Backed Sofa

Piecrust Table collapsed Set-up

Federal Period 1820 -1840 • Straight-lined, uncluttered, symmetrical, small rectangular designs • Designers – George Hepplewhite – Thomas Sheraton – Robert Adam

Hepplewhite • Shield, oval, or heart & tapered legs

Hepplewhite/Sheraton

Sheraton • Notice that unlike Hepplewhite furniture, the slim legs of this table are turned. Slender turned legs, often finely fluted or reeded, are a consistent feature of Sheraton design, as are tabletops such as this one, in which the regular square or rectangular shape is enlivened by diagonal or canted corners.

Sheraton • Rectangular or square back with reeding

Sheraton

Empire 1820 -1840 • Copy classical furniture & Egyptian decorations • Named for Napoleon I • Elaborate classical designs; Leaves, swans, eagles, dolphins • Urn-shaped pedistal tables with curved legs & brass feet

Duncan Phyfe • Lyre back chair • Dog’s Paw & Lion’s claw feet

Lion’s Claw Foot

Dog’s Paw Foot

Pedestal Table

Shaker 1800’s • Plain & simple • Emphasized utility not oramentation • High quality craftmanship

Ladderback chair

Victorian 1840 -1900 • • • Elaborate, fanciful designs Curved lines Rich, overstuffed upholstery Ornate & heavy looking Marble, iron, brass Made by machine with extensive oramentation

Belter Chair

Bentwood Rocker

Balloon-back Chair

International 1901 -Present • • • Plain & functional Chrome-plated steel tubing Molded plastic & glass Machine – made look Abandoned wood

Bauhaus Furniture Walter Gropius- should not have any details that do not contribute to its function

Bauhaus

Frank Lloyd Wright

Scandinavian

Contemporary • Not confined to one nation • Utilized architectual material; marble, wood, stone, glass, plastics • Designed for human form • Emphasis on convience • Serve more than one purpose • Very latest designs • Use of modules, pieces that fit together • Influenced by engineers & chemists

Contemporary

Marcel Breuer Wassily Chair