1. Objective 5.01 Classify the Most Recognized Styles of Furniture
Housing and Interiors
Objective 5.01
Classify the Most Recognized Styles of Furniture

2. TRADITIONAL STYLES

3. Queen Anne
A Queen Anne chair is a chair in the Queen Anne style of furniture design that developed in England in the 18th century, during the reign of the British monarch.
Queen Anne chairs are
characterized by simple curvilinear
lines and cabriole legs.
Seats often feature a horseshoe
shape.

4. Queen Anne Chairs
Queen Anne was the only queen to have a furniture style named exclusively for her
The cabriole legs came from an oriental
influence

5. Chippendale Style
Thomas Chippendale was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles.
In 1754 he published The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, a popular collection of designs illustrating almost every type of domestic furniture.

6. Chippendale Style
Thomas Chippendale’s early designs featured claw and ball feet
Later, his designs had straight legs

7. MODERN/CONTEMPORARY STYLES

8. Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ), architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist. Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.
Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s.

9. Form Follows Function
Bauhaus ("House of Building" or "Building School") is the common term for a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.
“Form Follows Function” -The principle is that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose.
The credo was taken to imply that decorative elements, which architects call "ornament," were superfluous in modern design.

10. Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator who promoted organic architecture that complimented the natural surroundings

11. Frank Lloyd Wright
His work includes original and innovative buildings as well as many of the interior elements, such as the furniture and stained glass.

12. Famous Chair Styles