Illustrated Architecture Dictionary............. Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary.............
Illustrated FURNITURE
Glossary
Pilaster
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Architecture
A shallow rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming with one of the ordersUsed to frame doorways, fireplaces, etc.
Pilasters to sides of door (may have pediment) found in Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Beaux Arts Classical styles
Banded pilaster: Horizontal subdivisions in a shallow rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall
Furniture
Architecturally, a flat column on which the details and proportions of a classical order are reproduced. The pilaster is then attached to front of, for instance, a leg; or incorporated in the design of a cupboard panel particularly in the designs of the ate sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Examples from Buffalo architecture:
- Illustration above: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- 33 Chapin Pkwy
- Buffalo Savings Bank
- Knox House
- Hamburg Grange Building, Hamburg, N.Y.
- Spaulding Building (Banded pilaster)
- Niagara Share Building
- Hull House
- Buffalo Catholic Institute Public Library / Church of Scientology Buffalo
- Furniture: Federal corner cupboard - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
Other examples:
