Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ........................ Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture
Dictionary
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FURNITURE
Glossary
Leaf-and-dart
Also called heart and dart, water leaf
Architecture
A convex molding decorated with a pattern of alternate leaf-like forms and darts, found especially on Ionic capitals
Lesbian leaf: distinguished by a prominent center rib
Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire
Furniture
Used in furniture, also
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Market Arcade
- Chillion M. Farrar House
- Blessed Trinity Church
- Williams-Pratt House
- Ellicott Square Building
- Delaware Court Building
- 479 Delaware Ave., Midway
- Harlow C. Curtiss House / International Institute
- Spaulding Building
- Buffalo Museum of Science
- Furniture: specimen table - Vatican Museums, Rome
- Furniture: slant front desk - Colonial Revival and Hoosier Furniture
Other examples:
- Furniture: Château de Bourdeilles, France
