Agenda 10/13/11

OBJECTIVE : To Identify Styles of Furniture Warm-up: List furniture that are made with the

six categories listed on worksheet at your table

Lecture: take notes on Furniture Styles

Activity: Complete Activity on Identify Styles

Closing: Name 3 styles of furniture that you learned today and what style you like best!

Furniture Styles

Housing I 5.01

Furniture Facts

To be legally classified as an antique the furniture piece needs to be 100100 years old.

Eclectic style is mixing different furniture styles from different time periods.

Queen Anne Named after Queen Anne of England

who reigned from 1702-1714. It is characterized by 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

Cabriole Leg

Japanning was a popular varnish used that gave the surface of the furniture a glossy black or any other color finish.

Two popular chair styles copied today that was used back then was the Wing Chair (upholstered) , and the Windsor Chair (non-upholstered).

Japanning

Slat back Chairs Desk

Wingback Chair Chair

Windsor Chair with slats

Cabriole leg

Thomas Chippendale

Cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale, published his furniture designs in a book "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director" in 1754.

The Chippendale style can be classified into three types: French influence, Chinese influence, and Gothic influence.

In the United States, the Chippendale style was a more elaborate development of the Queen Anne style with cabriole legs and claw and ball foot. A well known piece of Chippendale furniture is the camelback sofa.

Chair with claw-ball foot and intricate carved back

Foot stool

Claw and ball leg/foot

Chippendale had many ornate and elaborately carved pieces.

Later years showed the style with straight legs and a Chinese influence

Camel-back sofas

Marcel Breuer (Bauhaus) Group of German designers in

early 1900s. Philosophy was “Form follows

function” meaning that furniture should be designed for the purpose intended.

Marcel Breuer designs became known as International Style and continue to be produced today

Furniture used Chrome-plated tubing for support

Seats and backs were made of canvas, wood, cane, or leather

Breuer’s designs

Wassily chair (1925)Cesca

chair (1928)

Designs cont…..

Frank Lloyd Wright 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

Falling Water 1936

Resources 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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