Major Designers and Events

Question 1

Nikolaus Pevsner

Answer 1

Pioneers of Modern Design (1937): William Morris, C. R. Ashbee, Walter Crane, Otto Wagner, Henri van de Velde, Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Walter Gropius.

Question 2

International Exhibitions: The Crystal Palace, 1851

Answer 2

London England

Henry Cole and Prince Albert

Question 3

International Exhibitions: The New York Crystal Palace, New York, 1853

Answer 3

machine printed wallpaper
Bryant Park
Revival Styles

Question 4

Rococo Revival

Answer 4

c. 1855
C-scrolls, lioks like Cs
-s-scrolls, looks like Ss
-presence of naturalistic elements in deep relief, like animals, fruits, flowers
-French roci(?)-the french shell
-shells, seen
-comes orginally from France
-in France-very dimutive forms in rococo
even american rococo is dimutative
deep relief- in contrast in carving
-deepest carving in rococo revival forms
-the orginal american rococo-more allign in english rococo
-american rococo revival -has more in common with German rococo revival
-german-extreme carving

Question 5

John Henry Belter

Answer 5

Active in New York , 1844-1863
rococo revival
modern manufacturing practice
laminated wood

Question 6

Richard Morse Hunt

Answer 6

Uses revival styles, designs houses, Newport mansions

Question 7

Renaissance Revival

Answer 7

-looking at classicism
-looking at architecture, looking at symmetry, classical orders
in furniture-looking at symmentry, reference to architecture
pedimets, columns
look like building in a piece of furniture

Question 8

Herter Brothers

Answer 8

renaissance, rococo, aesthetic?, New York

Question 9

Gothic Revival

Answer 9

honesty in construction
1851 Crystal Palace, where it starts
Gothic cathedrals, church elements in design 
Pugin
moral element

Question 10

John Ruskin

Answer 10

ruskin wriign adn thinking of the gothic-return to the gothic not copy
retunring to gothic ideals, will help us to reform humanity
he is concerned about modernization, disease, etc
he is deeply concerned in these forms return
that the forms re empty if manmade
there is an oppurintuy to restore labor
recongize humans as humans not machines through the gothic
humans relationship to landscape
one fo largest collectors of turners