History of Interior Design Test 2

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