Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary ........... Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Furniture Glossary - STYLES & DESIGNERS in AMERICA
Alphabetical order: Art Deco ...... Art Nouveau......Arts & Crafts ......Chippendale...... Colonial Revival...... Eastlake ...... Empire...... Federal...... Gothic Revival.........Late Classicism....... Modern...... Pilgrim...... Queen Anne......Renaissance Revival ......Rococo Revival.... Spool-Turned .......Transitional Early Victorian .....Tudor Revival......Turkish......Victorian ...... William & Mary
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Furniture styles - in Chronological Order Important American Designers |
Parallel Architecture Styles |
Other Historical Events |
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Pilgrim style
/ Jacobean style 1630-1690 Illustration: Wainscot chair - Fairmount Park Woodford House, Philadelphia |
America: Colonial style architecture
(pre-Revolutionary War 1776-1783) Europe: Baroque style architecture |
England: King Charles I 1625-1649 England: Interregnum 1649-1660 England: King Charles II 1649-16685 England: King James II 1685-1689 France: King Louis XIII 1610-1643 France: King Louis XIV 1643-1715 |
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William & Mary
style 1685-1725 Illustration: Octagonal slate side table. Chestnut and maple; slate top. New England (Massachusetts?), ca. 1710. On display in 2003 at the Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, Va |
America: Colonial style architecture
(pre-Revolutionary War 1776-1783) England: Baroque style architecture |
England: King William II, Queen Mary II 1689-1694 England: Queen Anne 1702-1714 England: King George I 1714- 1727 France: King Louis XIV 1643-1715 France: King Louis XV 1715-1774 |
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Queen
Anne style 1725-1750 Illustration:Dressing table. Walnut and walnut veneer, white pine secondary. Boston, ca. 1740. On display in 2003 at the Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, Va |
America: Colonial style architecture
(pre-Revolutionary War 1776-1783) England: Rococo style architecture |
England: King George II 1727-1760 France: King Louis XV 1715-1774 Music: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies 1741 Music: J. S. Bach, dies 1750 |
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Chippendale
style 1750-1780 |
America: Colonial style architecture
(pre-Revolutionary War 1776-1783) England: Chippendale was influenced by both the Rococo and the English Classical (Palladian) architectural styles |
England: King George II 1727-1760 England: King George III 1760-1820 France: King Louis XV 1715-1774 Music: George Frederick Handel dies 1759 |
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Federal
style 1780-1820 Illustration: Baltimore Museum of Art George Hepplewhite Sheraton, Thomas Samuel MacIntyre (1757-1811) Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) |
Federal style is the Americanized version of Adam (Adamesque) style, which is the English version of Neoclassical style architecture | U.S.: George Washington 1789-1797 U.S.: John Adams 1797-1801 U.S.: Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 U.S.: James Madison 1809-1817 England: King George III 1760-1820 English architecture style: Regency 1811-1820 France: King Louis XVI 1774-1792 France: Emperor Napoleon 1804-1814 Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies 1791 |
Shaker style 1790-1900 |
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Empire style Also called Classical 1815-1840 Illustration: Fillmore House Museum Charles Honoré Lannuier Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) |
America: Federal style architecture
(1780-1820) America: Greek Revival architecture (1820-1860) America: Gothic Revival architecture (1830-1860) Europe: Influenced by Napoleon's version of Neoclassical style architecture |
U.S.: John Adams 1825-1829 U.S.: Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 England: King George IV 1820-1830 French Restauration style, 1830-1870 Music: Ludwig van Beethoven dies 1827 |
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Late Classicism
and the Restauration Style Also called Pillar and Scroll 1835-1850 Illustration: St. John's Grace Episcopal Church |
Substyle of American Neoclassical architecture | |
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Victorian / 19th-Century
Revival styles 1840-1880 Illustration: Peanut-shaped upholstered back armchair - Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site |
Victorian style architecture | U.S.: Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 France: King Napoleon III 1852-1870 |
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Transitional Early Victorian | Victorian style architecture | |
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Rococo Revival
style 1840-1870 One of the Victorian Revival styles Illustration: John Henry Belter Room on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 |
Victorian style architecture | |
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Gothic Revival
style 1840-1880 One of the Victorian Revival styles Illustration: Henry Mooney House |
Gothic Revival architecture | U.S.: Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 England: Queen Victoria 1837-1901 |
Spool-Turned style 1840-1865 One of the Victorian Revival styles |
Victorian style architecture | ||
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Renaissance Revival
style 1850-1890 One of the Victorian Revival styles Illustration:Corporal Hyde House at Genesee Country Village, & Museum |
Renaissance Revival style architecture Victorian style architecture |
England: Queen Victoria 1837-1901 Music: Johannes Brahms dies 1897 |
Turkish style 1855-1875 One of the Victorian Revival styles |
Victorian style architecture | ||
Aesthetic Movement 1860-90 |
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Eastlake style 1870-1890 One of the Victorian Revival styles Illustration: Sofa and chair |
Eastlake style architecture Victorian style architecture |
England: Queen Victoria 1837-1901 |
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Art Nouveau style
1895-1910 Illustration: Boiserie de la salle a manger de la propriété Bénard, by Alexandre Charpentier, 1901, on display in 2004 at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France |
Art Nouveau style architecture | U.S.: Grover Cleveland 1885-1889, 1893-1897 U.S.: William McKinley 1897-1901 U.S.: Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 England: Queen Victoria 1837-1901 England: King Edward VII (Victoria's son) 1901-1910 |
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Colonial Revival
style 1890-1925 |
Colonial Revival style architecture | |
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Mission style 1900-1920 Includes Roycroft style Illustration: ScheideMantel House / Roycroft Museum |
Arts & Crafts architecture Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) George Elmslie (1871-1952) Charles Greene (1868-1957) Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) |
U.S.: Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 Architecture: William Morris, (1834-96) English architecture style: Edwardian 1901-1910 |
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Tudor Revival 1910-1930 Illustration: Saturn Club |
Tudor Revival Architecture | |
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Art Deco style 1925-1940 Illustration: Old Editions Book Shop and Café |
Art Deco style architecture Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
U.S.: Calvin Coolidge, President
1923-1929 U.S.: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President 1933-1945 |
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Modern style Illustration: Wooden rectangular bench supported on tubular-steel rectangular frame and legs - Albright-Knox Art Gallery Charles Eames |
Modern style architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |