HIstory of Interior Design Test 3 & 4

What sparked the neoclassical movement?

Political: American Revolution and French Revolution

Archeological: Pompeii, Rosetta Stone was discovered in Egypt

Name 2 French designers associated with Napoleon who considers fathers of the interior design movement

Leonard Fontaine and Charles Percier

Name technological advances leading to the industrial design movement

* electricity
* water wheel
* cotton gin
* steel
* assembly line (mass production)
* plate glass
* complex textiles

How did Romanesque revival differ from other revival styles?

* did not rely on ornamentation
* expressed the structure of the building

How did the opening of Japan in 1853 influence the Aesthetic movement?

* Art Nouveau comes from there
* woodblock prints
* pottery and china
* furniture with offset geometric patterns
* peacock motifs
* wall prints

How did technological advances affect architecture and furniture production?

Textiles were more rapidly produced and cheaper because of cotton mills

How did expositions affect interior design trends?

* disseminated knowledge widely
* no longer just elites
* general public was now exposed to it

Which modern designers studied Katsura Imperial Villas? How did it influence them?

* Walter Gropius, Bruno Taught, Kansu Tang
* inspired by connection to the exterior

Who developed an early curtain wall system?

Joseph Paxton

What were principals of the British arts and crafts movements? How did they differ from the art nouveau movement?

* art nouveau embraced technology while arts and crafts was against it
* both looked to nature and local context for decorative motifs
* both were a reaction to industrial age
* art nouveau wants new style and arts and crafts looks at older styles (medieval)

what mediums did arts and crafts designers utilize?

* textiles
* pottery
* paint
* wall coverings
* furniture
* glass
* structures
* believed in totality so many mediums were used

What is the first modern interior, according to many theorist?

Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna

Name some of the leading theorist of the arts and crafts movement?

John Ruskin, Viollet le Duc, Gustav Stickley

What was the Vienna Seccession?

* group of artist and designers were reacting to revival styles that dominated the art scene
* built an exhibit hall to look at their work
* it was building and a movement
* idea of totality of design

How did Japanese Woodblock prints influence modern art?

* Frank Lloyd Wright structural renderings were directly inspired
* expressionist artist were also inspired by the flatness of woodblock prints

How did ocean liners use revival styles?

they used revival styles to create gendered spaces

What is gendered space?

spaces specific for men and women (ex: parlors)

How does Scandinavian modern differ from Bauhaus modernism?

* natural textures specifically wood, brick, and terracotta
* there is warmth to Scandinavian modernism

Where did the term art deco come from?

1925, expositions of international art motifs/ decorative arts

What is post-modernism?

a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism

How did the Vienna Secession movement differ from Art Nouveau?

* functionality
* no ornamentation (less is more)
* open plan interiors

What the tenants of the Bauhaus school? How are those ideals expressed in the architecture/ interior objects?

* functionality
* less is more aka no ornamentation
* horizontal lines
* open plain interiors
* plastics

Dorothy Draper is known for what style? What were 2 characteristics?

Modern Baroque - interesting color combinations and floral motifs

What noted architect is Elsie de Wolf associated with?

Stanford White

What are Le Corbusier’s 5 points of architecture?

* ribbon windows
* elevated buildings
* free facade
* roof terrace
* functionalism (open interiors)

Eileen Gray was a noted … (3 things)

* furniture designer
* architect
* fine artist

Gothic revival

Egyptian revival

Renaissance revival

Louis XV revival

Louis XVI revival

Baroque revival

* Wassily chair
* Marcel Breuer
* Bauhaus

* Barcelona chair
* Mies van der Rohe
* Bauhaus

* Pony Lounge
* Le Corbusier
* Modern

* LCW Plywood chair
* Charles and Ray Eames
* Midcentury modern

* Diamond chair
* Harry Bertoia
* Midcentury modern

* Arm Chair 41 “Paimio”
* Alvar Aalto
* Scandinavian modern

* Susan Hauserman chair
* Michaeul Graves
* Post modern

* Tulip chair
* Eero Saarinin
* Modern

* Wiggle chair
* Frank Gehry
* Deconstruction

* Ghost chair
* Phillipe Stark

* Side chair
* Hector Guimard
* Art Nouveau

* Sitzmaschine
* Joseph Hoffman
* Modern

* Red Blue chair
* Gerrit Rietveld
* De Stijl

* Tailisen Arm chair
* Frank Lloyd Wright

* #14 chair
* Thonet

* Hill House chair
* Mackintosh

* Whatnot shelf
* Victorian
* allowed people to be able to collect and design their own aesthetic and have stuff you picked cause you wanted it

How did Elsie de Wolf’s interior style differ from Victorian and revival style?

* everything was painted white
* little to non-ornamentation
* trying not to follow the style

Houses of Parliament

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* London, England
* Gothic Revival
* Pugin

Glessner House

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* Chicago, IL
* Henry Hobson Richardson

Crystal Palace

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* London, England
* Joseph Paxton
* Victorian

Marshall Fields Warehouse

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* Chicago, IL
* HH Richardson
* Romanesque

Chateau de Malmaison

* 1800-1810
* France
* Charkes Percier and Pierre-Francois Leonard Fontaine
* French Empire

Kedelston Hall

* 1759-1763
* Derbyshire, England
* Robert Adam and Matthew Brettingham
* Late Georgian

Chiswick House

* 1724-1729
* Middlesex, England
* William Kent
* Neo-Palladian

Monticello

* 1769-1784
* Charlottesville, Virginia
* Thomas Jefferson
* American Federal

Red House

* 1859
* Paris, France
* Phillip Webb
* Arts and Crafts

New Goten Pavilion, Katsura Imperial Villas

* Kyoto, Japan
* Kobori Enahu
* Edo

The Orchard

* 1899-1900
* Chorley Wood, England
* Charles Voysey
* Arts and Crafts

Palais Stoclet

* Brussels, Belgium
* Joseph Hoffman

Casa Mila

* Barcelona, Spain
* Antonio Guadi

Glasgow School of Art

* Glasgow, Scotland
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio

* Oak Park, IL
* Frank Lloyd Wright
* Prairie Style

Habitat 67

* Montreal, CA
* Moshi Safdi
* Brutalism

The Glass House

* New Haven, CT
* Philip Johnson
* Modernism

Rue de Lota Apartment

* Paris, France
* Eileen Gray
* Art Deco

Postal Savings Bank

* Vienna, Austria
* Otto Wagner
* Modern

Barcelona Pavilion

* Barcelona, Spain
* Meis Van de Rohe
* Bauhaus

Bauhaus School

* Dessau, Germany
* Meis Van der Rohe
* Bauhaus

Hitchcock Side Chair

* 1825-1828
* Washington, D.C.
* Lambert Hitchcock
* American Federal

Duncan Phyfe Chair

* 1815
* Washington, D.C.
* Duncan Phyfe
* American Federal

Biedermeier Furniture

Biedermeier Furniture

Biedermeier Furniture

Adjustable Back Chair

* 1869
* Phillip Webb
* Arts and Crafts

Eastlake Table

* Charles Eastlake
* Arts and Crafts

Sideboard

* Edwin Goodwin
* Aesthetic Style/Anglo-Japanese

Regency Table

* 1805
* England
* Thomas Hope
* Regency

Bookcase

* Japan
* Mejii Period