Furniture Styles
Housing I
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Furniture Facts
To be legally classified as an antique the
furniture piece needs to be 100 years
old.
Eclectic style is mixing different furniture
styles from different time periods.
Queen Anne
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Named after Queen Anne of England the
British monarch who reigned from 1702-1714.
It is characterized by simple curvilinear lines
and cabriole leg: a curved leg with out-curved
knee and incurved ankle.
The foot may be a club, a claw-and-ball, a
paw or scroll, and there may be a carved
ornament on the knee such as the scallop
shell or the lion motif
Seats often feature a horseshoe shape.
Cabriole Leg
Queen Anne Chairs
Queen Anne was the only queen to have a
furniture style named exclusively for her
 The cabriole legs came from an oriental
influence
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Japanning
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Japanning was a
popular varnish used
that gave the surface
of the furniture a
glossy black or any
other color finish.
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Slat back Chairs
Desk
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Two popular chair
styles copied today
that was used back
then was the Wing
Chair
(upholstered) ,
and the Windsor
Chair (nonupholstered).
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Windsor Chair with slats
leg
Cabriole
Thomas Chippendale
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London cabinet maker, Thomas Chippendale,
published his furniture designs in a book "The
Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director" in 1754.it
featured a popular collection of designs illustrating
almost every type of domestic furniture.
He was influenced by the mid-Georgian, English
Rococo, and Neoclassical styles.
The Chippendale style can be classified into three
types: French influence, Chinese influence, and
Gothic influence.
Chippendale Style
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Thomas Chippendale’s early designs in
the United States, were a more
elaborate development of the Queen
Anne style with cabriole legs and claw
and ball foot.
Later, his designs had straight legs
A
well known piece of Chippendale
furniture is the camelback sofa.
Chippendale
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Chair with claw-ball foot and intricate
carved back
Foot stool
Chippendale
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Chippendale had many ornate and elaborately
carved pieces.
Chippendale
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Later years showed the style with
straight legs and a Chinese influence
Camel-back sofas
Marcel Breuer
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Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902 -1981), architect and
furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born
modernist. Breuer displayed interest in modular
construction and simple forms.
Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the
1920s.
Philosophy was “Form follows function” meaning that
furniture should be designed for the purpose
intended.
Breuer designs became known as International Style
and continues to be produced today
Form Follows Function
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Bauhaus ("House of Building" or "Building School") is
the common term for a school in Germany that
combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for
the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It
operated from 1919 to 1933.
“Form Follows Function” -The principle is that the
shape of a building or object should be primarily based
upon its intended function or purpose.
The credo was taken to imply that decorative elements,
which architects call "ornament," were superfluous in
modern design.
Breuer’s
Wassily chair
(1925)
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Cesca chair
(1928)
Furniture used
Chrome-plated
tubing for support
Seats and backs
were made of
canvas, wood, cane,
or leather
Breuer’s Designs cont…..
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Created the ORGANIC style. Designed to
complement natural surroundings.
Believed that furniture should fit easily and
naturally into the home.
Furniture was created specifically for each
home.
Furniture was geometric shapes and
flat surfaces
Wright’s Furniture
His
work includes original and innovative
buildings as well as many of the interior
elements, such as the furniture and stained
glass.
Wright’s Furniture
Falling Water 1936
Chippendale
Form Follows
Function
Frank Lloyd
Wright
Natural
Queen Anne
Marcel Breuer
Claw and ball
leg/foot
Resources
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Housing Decisions pages 332-342
Housing and Interiors pages 576-592
www.collectorcafe.com
www.harewood.org/chippendale
www.queenanne-colonial-windsorchairs.com
www.ah.bfn.org
www.designmuseum./org/design/marcel-breuer
www.franklloydwright.org
www.sandstead.com/images/fallingwater
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