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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

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