Furniture Time Line
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THROUGH TIME
- It is very
EGYPTIA cubic and smooth, it has firmness and solidity.
N - The furniture had decorations in high and low
relief with religious scenes, or scenes from daily life.
- Gold, silver, bone and ivory were used for
luxurious furniture.
-Some have zoomorphic legs
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- They used marble, wood, stone
- Developed outdoors
-They have curved legs
- Its slightly inclined backrest and seat are more
comfortable
- They used marble, wood, stone, bronze and wicker
- Bronze furniture is so important that almost all
luxury furniture is made from this material.
- The furniture was mostly designed for public
spaces, such as coliseums -All the vertical elements
of the chairs and beds are generally turned, with very
exaggerated and violent profiles.
- The artistic interest in this style of furniture is
almost zero.
- The chairs or chairs were rigid, decorated with a
profusion of carvings and with compositions of
arches and carved planks.
- They used ivory wood and metal
- The decoration they used was inspired by flora, fauna and fantastic
figures - They were very heavy
- The tables did not have any artistic value
GOTHIC -The furniture is generally very robust, with
long legs, predominating
-absolute verticality.
-The furniture is made using box and tenon
assemblies.
-Their color palette is usually very muted. - A g
- Their designs are very formal and imitate
RENAISSANCE
facades
-They use wood a lot like pine
-The inlays: which were sheets of dyed wood
embedded in carvings to form decorations.
-Stucco: a plaster or glaze that simulates
marble.
-Backrest is usually made of leather or fabric like
the seat
-The furniture from this period is sober and
LOUIS inspired by architecture.
XIII -The lines are straight and as time progresses the
shapes become softer.
-They use ebony, marble inlays and marquetry
-The chairs have high backs
-Characteristics of this furniture are its curved
BAROQUE lines, turned columns, gold sheets and its large
amount of details -Its materiality used either in
cabinets, chests, trunks.
-They use wood like walnut
-Its furniture is smooth, the chairs are
ENGLIS characterized by having high backrests.
H -The new application of the pillars in a curved
style in addition to the application of figures
which were carved from wood or in the
application of forged metals.
-They also use new fabrics in their furniture
REGENCY -The S leg appears, called a crossbow contour
-Massive use of upholstery
-The curves throughout the furniture are
symmetrical
-Motifs of plants, animals, etc. are used.
-Inspired by nature
-Massive use of upholstery
-Finely polished objects with colored
ROCOCO
lacquers, gold carvings and decorative
elegance.
-They used many flowers as decorative
motifs
-Curve and feminine shapes
-Long legs, with oblique flap and hidden
compartments.
-Its color palette is based on pastel, green,
blue, gold, pink and beige.
-Common furniture is varnished and the finest is
LOUIS veneered.
XV -It was very common to paint wooden furniture
with light tones
-The tone of the furniture becomes more rigid, but
with a feeling of balance.
-Mahogany and ebony wood are used
-This furniture is inspired by the classical world.
NEOCLASSIC -Only the great elites owned this type of
furniture
-This is simple and governed by straight and
simple lines with classical reminiscence
-Its seats were characterized by their oval
shape
-Their chairs are characterized by the fact that
IMPERIAL their front legs are straight and the rear legs are
saber-shaped.
The curve is used discreetly as circles, ovals
and a very abundant curve in the style
-They used a lot of solid mahogany in a bright
reddish tone.
-Characterized by maintaining simple and
XIX refined forms.
CENTURY -They used materials such as iron and steel
-The colors they used were opaque or the color
of materials
-It has more influence on a medieval and
ART & CRAFTS
artisanal style
-Maintain straight lines
-His intention is to revive the medieval
-In their color palette they use bright colors
-They used oak wood a lot
•It is the first movement that breaks away almost
ART NOVEAU completely from the imitation of previous styles in
search of the identity of the urban and the
modern, since a new century was born.
-Aesthetically, they result in flat, linear,
ornamental images, which are reduced to an
economy of means that gives them singular
beauty.
-Use bright colors
TWENTIET -Materials such as: wood, chrome or nickel-
H plated steel tubes, iron, aluminum
-Simple colored leather tapestries
The Bauhaus school's furniture workshop
BAUHAUS approached furniture design by first examining
its function. The Bauhaus school believed that
furniture should be comfortable to sit on, and
designers created simple shapes to achieve
this. This approach resulted in a series of
requirements for the design of the furniture
based on the functional analysis of the piece.
These standards include elastic seats and
backrests
The main characteristic of Art Deco furniture is
the use of the straight line, with its different
ART DECO combinations, plating, curves and circles, the use
of lines in geometric shapes such as the hexagon
and the octagon, which will become the most
used. Also, new materials emerge for furniture
decoration and new combinations between them.
Art Deco style furniture is also characterized by
being a fusion between the functional and the
Decorative. That is to say, although Art Deco
sought above all the primacy of Decoration over
functionality, it also sought that the pieces were
important in themselves and had a utility.
MODERN
POS
MODERN
New materials and new techniques change the
way of life of man and different forms are born. It
was born from a design of architectural lines. It is
the opposite of the traditional ornate style, it is
simple, minimalist. Its main exponents are Le
Corbusier, Mies van der Roe, Alvar Aalto, Oud,
Lurcat, Mackintosh, Rietveld. It is from this time
that the furniture becomes functional, the materials
in which they are built are according to the
technical, economic and social needs. We sought
to create functionality with beauty.
-This style adds very intense and contrasting
colors that define another reading of the image of the
objects, the most striking colors being widely used to
solve interior problems, however white and neutral
colors are also used, as well as pastels. The
postmodern movement sought originality and
despised repetitive spaces. Each new interior must
have its own personality and be unique. In this way,
furniture adapted to the space is created: expressly
designed for that place and personalized through
color and shape.
THIRD CYCLE
FURNITURE DESIGN
