Studied by 11 peopleTags & Description
What is the origin of the Stupa?
a shrine containing the remains of a holy or sainted person and/or artifacts (relics) associated with them, originating in India prior to the 5th century BCE as tombs of holy men and evolving afterwards into sacred sites dedicated to the Buddha
How did seating differ from East (China/ Cambodia) to West (Europe)?
Western climates get a lot more rain so this group generally used chairs for the primary seating option in contrast to eastern cultures that often sat on the floor. Culturally in the East, chairs were reserved for those of high status.
What religious period is associated with Baroque design?
The counter reformation and the protestant reformation
Name 3 characteristics of a Renaissance interior?
Stacked horizontal divisions on walls
High and ornamented ceilings- coffers commonly used
Recessed wall fireplaces with a coat of arms
Who brought renaissance design to England?
Inigo Jones
What are pattern books? How did they change the furniture industry?
Pattern books made architectural designs available to the middle class that had previously only been available to the wealthy. Their widespread use influenced home designs throughout the country, but still left room for builders to adapt those designs to local tastes and functional requirements
What is the first true Interior style?
Rococo
Characteristics of Georgian Style
exceedingly plain
mahogany wood
Characteristics of Jacobean Style
Plaster Ceilings and paneling
Timbered ceilings
Painted walls to look like tapestries and painted panels to imitate marble
Blackwork: elaborate patterns in black on s white background
Characteristics of Islamic Design
domes, arches, minarets, Muqarnas vaulting, and girih tiles
How does furniture produced in colonies reflect and differ from furniture produced in the Colonizing country?
The furniture was sparse, and often served multiple services.
Name some inventions of that propel the furniture industry to mass production?
Pattern Books
What were guilds? What is their modern-day equivalent?
a medieval association of merchants or craftsmen
approximate equivalent to modern-day business organizations such as institutes or consortiums.
flying buttresses
stone supports that stood outside the church
Pinnacle
Buttress
a supporting structure
ribbed vault
Clerestory
triforium
pointed arch
piers
aisle
the portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or piers
nave
the central area of a church
Tablero and talud
Architectural profile in which rectangular projections (tablero) are interspersed on a sloping surface (talud)
qibla wall
wall that faces Mecca
Mihrab
A semicircular niche set into the qibla wall of a mosque.
Minbar
a short flight of steps used as a platform by a preacher in a mosque.
Dikka
A platform in a mosque, often made of wood, that holds muezzins who chant in unison with the prayer leader.
kursii
chair
ablutions fountain
found in the center of the mosque; where Muslims perform ritual washing before entering a mosque.
Minaret
the tower attached to a mosque from which the muezzin, or crier, calls the faithful to prayer five times a day
portal
an entrance, door or gate
plinth
an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
Cup and Cover
furniture piece
tudor style design
claw and ball foot
common feature found on early Chippendale styles that resemble a claw gripping a ball
Cabriole leg
a furniture leg that curves out at the middle and then tapers inward just above an ornamental foot
escutcheon
a shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms
broken pediment
a pediment in which the cornice is discontinuous or interrupted by another element
furniture knee
spanish foot
Rectangular ribbed foot larger at the base, usually with a weak scroll.
Ormolu
a cast brass, chiseled and gold-gilded decorative mountings for furniture
LOUIS XIV ARMCHAIR
baroque
Regency Armchair
regency
LOUIS XV ARMCHAIR
Rococo
Heppelwhite
Sheraton
Square back, tapered legs
Chippendale Chair
Georgian period. Influenced by Queen Anne with Ears
Sainte Chapelle
Period: Rayonnant
Paris, France
Notre Dame
Period: Early Gothic
Paris, France
Coronation Chair of Westminster Abbey
Period: English Gothic
London, England
Mezquita Mosque and Cathedral
Period: Islamic Spain
Cordoba, Spain
The Great Mosque
Hypostyle Hall
Hybrid of Roman Columns with horse shoe arches
Blue Mosque
Period: Ottoman
Istanbul, Turkey
Pyramid of the Moon
Period: Teotihuacan
San Martin de las Piramidas, Mexico
Chichen-Itza
-Period: Mayan
Tinum, Mexico
Santa Maria della Consolazione
Period: High Renaissance
Todi, Italy
Laurentian Library
Period: late renaissance
Florence, Italy
Designer: Michelangelo
Banqueting House
Period: Late Renaissance
London, England
Designer: Inigo Jones
Longleat Hall
Period: Elizabethian
Wiltshire, England
Designer: Robert Smythson
Windsor Chair
Location: American Colonies
Period: Colonial
Sedia Chair
Location: Italy
Period: Italian Renaissance
Yoke back chair
Location: China
Period: Ming Dynasty
Console Table
Period: Baroque
Arm Chair
Period: Baroque
Cassone
Italian Renaissance
Hall of Mirrors
Period: Baroque
Location: Versailles, France
Designer: Le Vau
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Period: Baroque
Rome, Italy
Designer: Boromini
Designers of the Renaissance
Michelangelo, Bramante, Brunelleschi
Marquetry
a decorative technique of inlaying veneers into a pattern assembled like a jigsaw. We studied uses of wood, tortoiseshell ivory and metal.
Angkor Wat
Location: Cambodia
Period: Khmer
Hotel de Soubise
Period: Rococo
Location: Paris, France
Designer: Germain Boffrand
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