1. Furniture Styles Housing I 5.01

2. Furniture Facts To be legally classified as an antique the furniture piece needs to be 100 years old. Eclectic style is mixing different furniture styles from different time periods.

3. Queen Anne  Named after Queen Anne of England who reigned from 1702-1714.  It is characterized by cabriole leg: a curved leg with out-curved knee and incurved ankle. The foot may be a club, a claw-and-ball, a paw or scroll, and there may be a carved ornament on the knee such as the scallop shell or the lion motif

4. Cabriole Leg

5.  Japanning was a popular varnish used that gave the surface of the furniture a glossy black or any other color finish.

6.  Two popular chair styles copied today that were used:  Wing Chair (upholstered)  Windsor Chair (non-upholstered).

7.  Slat back ChairsDesk

8.  Wingback ChairChair

9.  Windsor Chair with slats

10. Thomas Chippendale  Cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale, published his furniture designs in a book "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director" in 1754.  The Chippendale style can be classified into three types: French influence, Chinese influence, and Gothic influence.

11.  In the United States, the Chippendale style was a more elaborate development of the Queen Anne style with cabriole legs and claw and ball foot. A well known piece of Chippendale furniture is the camelback sofa.

12.  Chair with claw-ball foot and intricate carved back Foot stool

13. Claw and ball leg/foot

14.  Chippendale had many ornate and elaborately carved pieces.

15.  Later years showed the style with straight legs and a Chinese influence

16. Camel-back sofas

17. Marcel Breuer (Bauhaus)  Group of German designers in early 1900s.  Philosophy was “Form follows function” meaning that furniture should be designed for the purpose intended.  Marcel Breuer designs became known as International Style and continue to be produced today

18.  Furniture used Chrome-plated tubing for support  Seats and backs were made of canvas, wood, cane, or leather

19. Breuer’s designs  Wassily chair (1925) Cesca chair (1928)

20. Designs cont…..  Aluminum chaise, 1935-36

21. Frank Lloyd Wright  Created the ORGANIC style. Designed to complement natural surroundings.  Believed that furniture should fit easily and naturally into the home.  Furniture was created specifically for each home.  Furniture was geometric shapes and flat surfaces

22. Wright’s Furniture

24. Falling Water 1936

25. Resources  Housing Decisions pages 332-342  Housing and Interiors pages 576-592  www.collectorcafe.com www.collectorcafe.com  www.harewood.org/chippendale www.harewood.org/chippendale  www.queenanne-colonial-windsorchairs.com www.queenanne-colonial-windsorchairs.com  www.ah.bfn.org www.ah.bfn.org  www.designmuseum./org/design/marcel-breuer www.designmuseum./org/design/marcel-breuer  www.franklloydwright.org www.franklloydwright.org  www.sandstead.com/images/fallingwater www.sandstead.com/images/fallingwater  Copyright ©2007, ABCD, All rights reserved.