1. Furniture Styles

2. Jacobean
Heavy, rectangular pieces
Rounded legs - turnings

3. Trestle Table

4. Chair Table

5. Trundle Bed

6. William & Mary 1700-1725 Feature chairs with curved backs & rush seats
Delicate
Lightness compared to Jacobean
Fine carvings
VENEERED – fine wood layered over less expensive wood

7. Gateleg Table
Legs swung out to support leaves of tab

8. Highboy
Chest of drawers mounted on legs

9. Queen Anne 1720-1755 Japanning – glossy black lacquer finish
Upholstered
Comfortable

10. Windsor Chair
Stick legs & spindles driven into plank seat

11. Highboy
Cabroile legs – legs curved out at middle & tapered inward just above an ornamental foot

12. Wing Chair Upholstered chair with high back & sides
Designed to protect from drafts

13. Chippendale mid 1700 Mahogany Wood Shells, leaves, & flowers carved
S-shaped legs ending in ball & claw foot
Heavier & more solid

14. Highboy
Shell and flower design
Ball and claw foot
Mahogany wood

15. Ball and Claw Foot

16. Chippendale

17. Camel Backed Sofa

18. Piecrust Table
collapsed
Set-up

19. Federal Period
Straight-lined, uncluttered, symmetrical, small rectangular designs
Designers
George Hepplewhite
Thomas Sheraton
Robert Adam

20. Hepplewhite
Shield, oval, or heart & tapered legs

21. Hepplewhite/Sheraton

22. Sheraton
Notice that unlike Hepplewhite furniture, the slim legs of this table are turned. Slender turned legs, often finely fluted or reeded, are a consistent feature of Sheraton design, as are tabletops such as this one, in which the regular square or rectangular shape is enlivened by diagonal or canted corners.

23. Sheraton
Rectangular or square back with reeding

24. Sheraton
Reeded legs

25. Sheraton

26. Empire 1820-1840 Copy classical furniture & Egyptian decorations
Named for Napoleon I
Elaborate classical designs; Leaves, swans, eagles, dolphins
Urn-shaped pedistal tables with curved legs & brass feet

27. Duncan Phyfe
Lyre back chair
Dog’s Paw & Lion’s claw feet

28. Lion’s Claw Foot

29. Dog’s Paw Foot

30. Pedestal Table

31. Pedestal Table

32. Shaker 1800’s Plain & simple Emphasized utility not oramentation
High quality craftmanship

33. Ladderback chair

34. Victorian 1840-1900 Elaborate, fanciful designs Curved lines
Rich, overstuffed upholstery
Ornate & heavy looking
Marble, iron, brass
Made by machine with extensive oramentation

35. Belter Chair

36. Bentwood Rocker

37. Balloon-back Chair

38. International 1901-Present
Plain & functional
Chrome-plated steel tubing
Molded plastic & glass
Machine – made look
Abandoned wood

39. Bauhaus Furniture
Walter Gropius- should not have any details that do not contribute to its function

40. Bauhaus

41. Frank Lloyd Wright

42. Scandinavian

43. Contemporary Not confined to one nation
Utilized architectual material; marble, wood, stone, glass, plastics
Designed for human form
Emphasis on convience
Serve more than one purpose
Very latest designs
Use of modules, pieces that fit together
Influenced by engineers & chemists

44. Contemporary

45. Marcel Breuer
Wassily Chair