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Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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Shape of house:

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Salt-box

JACOBEAN

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Jacobean years

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1650 - 1690

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Stacked Chimney

JACOBEAN

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JACOBEAN

  • Large fireplace for warmth
  • Whitewashed walls
  • Diamond pane windows (difficult to make large panes then)
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JACOBEAN

  • Rough beams
  • Whitewashed walls
  • Few / no windows
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JACOBEAN

Parlor - used to display fine furniture and for special occasions, like receiving guests

Hall - kitchen, work area, dining area, master’s bedroom

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Court Cupboard

JACOBEAN

  • Located in the parlor
  • Rough carvings
  • Held valuables
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Splayed Court Cupboard

JACOBEAN

  • Upper cabinets at 45 degree angles
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Press Cupboard

JACOBEAN

  • For linens and clothing
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Six Board Chests

JACOBEAN

  • Rough
  • Little ornamentation
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Six Board Chests

JACOBEAN

  • Rough
  • Little ornamentation
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Chest

JACOBEAN

  • Tripartite division
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Mortise and Tenon

JACOBEAN

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Turner

JACOBEAN

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Sunflower Motif

JACOBEAN

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Tulip Motif

JACOBEAN

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Sunflower Chest

JACOBEAN

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Hadley Chest

JACOBEAN

  • Carving all over (not just in panels)
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Wainscot Chair

JACOBEAN

  • Throne-like
  • For the man of the house
  • Big
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Cromwell Chair

JACOBEAN

  • Upholstered
  • Brass nails
  • Turned legs
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Turned chair - Brewster type

JACOBEAN

  • Spindles below seat
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Turned chair - Carver type

JACOBEAN

  • No spindles below seat
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Trestle Table

JACOBEAN

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Stretcher Table

JACOBEAN

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Butterfly Table

JACOBEAN

  • Fold down wings help to conserve space
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Who drew these?

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Daniel Marot

  • Left France due to Religious persecution
  • Influenced William and Mary style
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Catherine of Braganza

  • Moves to England due to marriage. Portugal was the ‘Port to the Orient’ and Catherine brings her love of Oriental furnishings, tea, and her own craftsmen.
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WILLIAM AND MARY

  • Finer finishing
  • Taller baseboards
  • No more rough timber ceilings
  • Larger windows
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WILLIAM AND MARY Chair

  • Caned back and seat reflect Oriental influence
  • Strong verticality reflect Classical influence
  • C/S scrolls reflect Baroque influence
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Highboy

WILLIAM AND MARY

  • Brass Pulls
  • Sometimes Oriental painted decoration
  • Skirt with arches & Ogee
  • Trumpet legs
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Trumpet leg

WILLIAM AND MARY

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Spanish foot / Paintbrush foot

  • Influenced by Chinese foot binding, a sign of beauty
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Ball and Ring Stretcher

WILLIAM AND MARY

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Gateleg table

WILLIAM AND MARY

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35
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Queen Anne dates:

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1730 - 1760

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Chiswick House

  • Classical influences seen in portico / columns

QUEEN ANNE

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37
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Name these elements:

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Mount Pleasant

QUEEN ANNE

  • Widow’s Walk
  • Palladian window
  • Portico
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QUEEN ANNE INTERIORS

  • Integrating triangular pediments (classical)
  • details in moulding
  • hidden structures
  • spacious rooms
  • high ceilings
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39
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Elements of Rococo

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  • Grace
  • Playfulness
  • Freedom
  • Asymmetry

Reacting against the strict formality of Louis XIV

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40
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American Chippendale dates:

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1755-1790

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41
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American Chippendale Influences:

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  • Oriental
  • Rococo
  • Gothic
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Name of Thomas Chippendale’s Book

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The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director

(A pattern book)

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DIACHRONIC

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Spanning across time.

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44
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Queen Anne Influences

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  • Classical
  • Oriental
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45
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Broken Pediment

QUEEN ANNE

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46
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Who made chippendale in America?

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Benjamin Randolph

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American Chippendale

  • Ears
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AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Building on Georgian, however has more detailing
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AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE INTERIOR

  • Detailing placed on top
  • Lightness
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AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • “Ears” on crest rails instead of rounded joints.
  • Pierced and carved splats – instead of flat, vase-shaped splats.
  • Robust ball and claw foot on cabriole leg instead of simple pad or trifid foot.
  • Architectural features like pilasters
  • New forms of furniture pieces
  • Carving (Rococo, gothic, or oriental)
  • Three dimensionality
51
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Philadephia high chest

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Rococo cartouche
  • Scrolled pediment with carving
  • Fluted columns
  • Richly carved skirt
  • Eagle’s foot
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Rococo cartouche / finials

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Slightly asymetrical for playfulness
53
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Kneehole desk

AMERICAN CHIPENDALE

  • Boston
  • Blocking: alternating concave/convex
54
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Block Front

Boston style

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

55
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Fall-front desk

Newport blockfront

  • Shells

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

56
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Ogee Foot

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

57
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  • Serpentine front
  • Bombé

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

58
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Describe this plan

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  • Oxbow

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

59
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Hairy-Paw Foot

60
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New York Claw and ball foot

  • no nails
  • side talons end straight
  • sits back on ball
61
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Massachusetts Claw and Ball foot

  • nails
  • webbing
62
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Philadelphia claw and ball foot

63
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Rhode Island claw and ball foot

64
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Boston side chair

  • Owl’s eyes
  • Stretcher

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

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Philadelphia side chair

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Vase-shaped splat
  • Shell decoration
  • Single piece of walnut
66
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Marlborough leg with fretwork

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

67
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Chippendale sofa

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Marlborough leg
68
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Tilt-top tea table

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Philadelphia
  • Pie-crust edge
69
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Salver

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Hold tea on tilt-top tea table
  • shell detail
70
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Kettle stand

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Pierced fretwork
71
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Sideboard table

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Marble top
  • Rococo carving
72
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Pembroke Table

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • in bedroom
  • for tea or breakfast
  • can be collapsed and moved to the side
  • Fluted legs
  • Sometimes pierced fretwork
73
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Card table

AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE

  • Needlepoint top
  • blocking
  • detailing on knee
74
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AMERICAN CHIPPENDALE INTERIOR

75
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Federal dates

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1790-1815

76
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Federal Furniture characteristics

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  • Veneer (no carving)
  • Lily of the Valley inlay
  • Sunburst effect
  • Geometric form / precision
  • Air: tapered legs, air, directing eye through veneers
  • Oval brass pulls
  • Classical, patriotic, geometric, or representational forms
  • Sheraton & Hepplewhite designs
  • Focus on unifying instead of regional
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Lily of the Valley inlay

FEDERAL

78
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Tapered leg

FEDERAL

79
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Federal Veneers

Different colors

  • Classical – urns, swags, draped figures
  • Patriotic – eagles
  • Representational – fruits, flowers, leaves, suns
  • Geometric – ovals, circles, etc
80
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Robert Adams

Neoclassical in England

  • Inspired by classical. Design begins in interior instead of exterior.
  • Delicate motifs.
81
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FEDERAL

  • Balustrade
  • Monumental pilasters
  • ‘Greek temple’ entrance
82
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FEDERAL INTERIOR

  • Light, delicate carving (even lighter than Georgian)
83
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FEDERAL

  • Cube
  • Stringcourse divides facade
  • Ballustrades
  • Classically influenced pillars
84
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FEDERAL PLAN

  • Asymetrical plan ventures out and shows value for freedom
  • Symmetrical face reflects conformity
85
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Fanlight

FEDERAL

86
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FEDERAL

  • Cube-like
  • Ballustrades
  • Temple front
  • Swags
87
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Secretary

FEDERAL

  • Play of geometries in both veneer and mullions
  • Tambour mid-section Fold-down writing surface
  • Oval brass pulls
  • The elegant French leg
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Linen Press

FEDERAL

  • Juxtaposition of geometries
  • Eagles and urns inlay on mahogany veneer
  • Stamped oval brass pulls
  • The French leg
89
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French leg

FEDERAL

90
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Chest of drawers – Bureau

FEDERAL

  • Lightness (vertical lines to break up mass, french leg, light color and direction of veneers, skirt excentuates verticality)
  • Oval pulls
  • Veneer
91
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Name the designer and back styles

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Hepplewhite

  • Shield
  • Oval
  • Heart
92
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Prince of Wales Feathers

FEDERAL

93
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Ears of wheat

FEDERAL

94
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Sheraton back

FEDERAL

  • Square back
  • Classical motifs
  • Raised center
95
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Sheraton chairs

FEDERAL

  • Square back
  • Lightness
  • raised center
96
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Sewing table

FEDERAL

  • Veneer
  • Pouch for sewing materials
97
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A small molding that is half-round or
beaded in the shape of a torus and used to
cover the joints on the edge of case pieces
or between adjacent doors or windows.

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astragal

98
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Federal sofa

  • Air in arm
  • Geometric stripe vs. Oval back
99
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Pembroke table

FEDERAL

  • Becomes oval instead of circle
  • Taperes legs
  • inlay
100
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Sideboard

FEDERAL

  • Air
  • Tapered legs
  • Directional Veneer
  • oval brass pulls
  • broken up front
101
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American Empire dates

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1790-1840

102
Q

Qualities of American Empire

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  • Sculptural
  • Heavy / Solid
  • Power

Carved decorations give way to simple forms with massive scrolls and pillars

103
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Napoleon’s emblem

  • Immortality and resurrection
  • Military victory

AMERICAN EMPIRE

104
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Greek Revival

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  • Used for banks

AMERICAN EMPIRE

105
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Desk bookcase

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • Flat top with sharply projecting cornice
  • Glass doors
  • Columns
  • Fall-front writing section
  • Columns
  • Winged lion’s paws
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Philadelphia chair

AMERICAN EMPIRE

Horizontal tablet crest rests on stiles/ Sabre leg
Inspired by the klismos

  • Sabre leg on front instead of back
107
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Winged lion paw

AMERICAN EMPIRE

108
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New York chair

AMERICAN EMPIRE

Turned lip and crest rail is confined between stiles / Turned legs

109
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American Empire Parlor

110
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A

American Empire interior

111
Q

Stages of neoclassicism

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1st - Federal

2nd - Empire

3rd - Scrolls

112
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American Empire worktable support styles

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Lyre

Balustrade

Dolphins

113
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Lyre table base

AMERICAN EMPIRE

114
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Balustrade table base

AMERICAN EMPIRE

(Third stage)

115
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Cellaret

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • held drinks in dining area
116
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Pier table

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • Mirror
  • Most popular table form
117
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Sideboard

AMERICAN EMPIRE

118
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Sleigh beds

AMERICAN EMPIRE

119
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Bed

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • Caryatid
120
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Lolling chair

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • flat top
  • grounded feeling
  • curved legs / scroll feeling
121
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Sofa

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • Flat top
  • Winged lion paw feet
  • scroll
122
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Grecian couch

AMERICAN EMPIRE

  • scrolls
  • lion paw
  • asymmetry
123
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How was American Empire style made affordable for the masses?

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  • Stenciling instead of carving
  • rush seats instead of upholstery
  • turned legs instead of carved

Furnishings Spring 2014 (3 decks)

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