History of Interiors - Final Exam Review
What type of leg was used in mid 18th century English and American furniture and is heavy, straight, and sometimes fluted with a block foot?
What type of leg is wider at the top and gradually reduces in thickness toward the bottom and was used on many shield back chairs by George Hepplewhite in the mid to late 1700’s?
What type of foot is also called a “Braganza toe” and was introduced from Portugal during the restoration period and used in 18th century English and American furniture?
Who designed the Johnson (Wax) Building? (Why is it historically significant?)
What is the name of the aesthetic movement of the latter half of the 19th century in England, led by William Morris?
What is a style of interior design that mixes different styles and periods of furniture?
What type of house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and had a low pitched roof, horizontal lines, open floor plan, central chimney, and was designed to blend in with the land around it?
What style of home takes traditional forms and updates them with modern details and materials?
What style of home uses modern shapes and adds interest with texture, color, and materials?
What style home is similar to both prairie and craftsmen styles, but has a shaped parapet from early Spanish mission architecture, and often has a Spanish tile roof?
What are some advantages of the cabriole leg?
Explain the Industrial Revolution. (what was the importance in relation to architecture)
What are some characteristics of Victorian furniture?
What is a critique?
Explain Greek Revival. (Describe the style)
Describe an ottoman.
What are swags?
What is a casement window?
What is a hipped roof?
Explain the Italiante style. (Name 3 distinct features of the style)
What is a furniture pattern book? What is it's use?
The early victoria period had several styles name 3.
What would you find in a pattern book?
List 3 prominent architects of the period.
What is an interior designer?
What 20 th century architectural and design styles are based on function and structure?
The borrowing of design from various earlier periods, common in architectural and interior design of the first half of the 20 th century is called what?
Arts and Crafts interior design was closely linked with what movement in the art world?
The ________ allowed the rise of the Victorian era style of overabundance.
Art Nouveau decorative ornamentation was based on what type of forms?
The development of what material made much of the modern architecture of the early 19 th century possible?
Colonial and Federal Styles were, for the most part, imported wholesale from where?
Reproducing past designs for modern use is referred to as what?
Saltbox Shake houses and Cape Cod houses were made by whom?
How were American Georgian houses adapted for life in the deep South?
Thomas Chippendale favored what furniture leg?
What furniture leg originated in Portugal and India?
Name the feet found on a cabriole leg.
What famous American cabinet maker produced designs based on late 18 th century English and Empire styles?
What 19 th century architectural style replaced historically decorative elements?
Britain’s Queen Victoria’s reign overlapped periods and coincided with 2 prominent movements?
What early American president influenced American architectural design?
Give the time line for the Neo-Classical Federalist period.
Name the four steps of an art/design critique.
What joinery method employs right angles?
The bend or curve of the leg is called what?
What is a stretcher?
Describe a Marlborough leg.
List 5 types of legs.
Describe a Claw and Ball foot.
Describe a Spade foot.
Name 3 characteristics of a Amercican Foursquare house.
The joint is like a squarish peg fit precisely into a squarish hole.
What is joinery?
What is Japanning?
What is a pegged lap joint?
What are three characteristics of a Prairie style house?
List 5 exterior housing styles made popular by the Victorian era.
What is a Feral Foot?
To which furniture leg style do these characteristics belong:
- Dominated 18 th century
- has an outcurved knee and incurved ankle
- can be used in conjunction with many foot designs
- very practical
- the balance it achieves makes it possible to support heavy pieces of case
furniture on slim legs without the use of stretchers.
What are the four major areas of art criticism, in order?
True or false: Georgian style homes have a square, symmetrical shape.
A ____________ joint is cut on one board and the matching groove is formed on the edge of the other board.
What are three features of a Queen Anne house?
Work is constructed or planned how?
What is critiquing?
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
What is a Cabriole Leg?
List 3 characteristics of Victorian interiors.
Who was Duncan Phyfe?
During what period did the wingback chair become popular?
Name the designers that dominated Early Federal Style furniture.
What is the strongest method for joining wood at right angles?
Where do you often see dovetail joints?
What is Art Nouveau?
What is the definition of the Profession of Interior Design?
This square foot is commonly used with a Marlborough leg.
This design is a variation on the cabriole leg, but it has a broken curve on the inner side of the knee. What style of furniture leg?
Decorative birth, marriage certificates, etc., made by Pennsylvania Germans during the 18 th and 19 th centuries. What kind of painting is it?
American architect whose distinctive style, based on natural forms, had a great influence on the modern movement in architecture. His designs include private homes, the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin (1939), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City (1943-1959).
French term meaning school of fine arts. The basis of the teaching was the art of ancient Greece and Rome, that is, classical art. But anatomy, geometry, perspective and study from the nude were also part of the curriculum.
The Arts and Crafts movement is also sometime called?
The Arts and Crafts movement was an aesthetic movement lead by the teachings of ?
Who was the leading figure in what came to be called the Craftsman movement in America?
What is the decorative style of the 20s and 30s which uses elements intended to suggest modern technological developments?
Which architectural style is often called romantic and feminine?
What is known as the borrowing and combining of art forms of various past periods and their adaptation to contemporary condition?
What is the term used to describe mid-western houses designed with horizontal emphasis?
Which architect is often thought of as a pioneer of modernism?
Which twentieth century architectural and design style is based on function and structure?
The use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era is known as?
In what period of furniture design is the lyre shaped leg found?
Name the two Early American Periods.
Who was the founder of Bauhaus?
What were some of the tenets of the Bauhaus movement of architecture?
In what period was fully upholstered furniture introduced as a result of the invention of the coiled metal spring?
Buildings are said to belong to the same classification or style when they share many of the same characteristics. What are four of those characteristics?
Which two of the following architects were famous during the Art Nouveau period?
a. Louis Sullivan
b. Antoni Gaudi
c. Bruce Goff
d. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
e. Walter Gropius
f. Frank Gehry
g. Mies Van de Rohe
What are some of the characteristics of early Victorian furniture?
What is the Motif?
How was the Arts and Crafts movement a reaction of the Industrial Revolution?
What are some differences between Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts styles?
What was Louis Sullivan known for within American architecture?
What was Frank Lloyd Wright known for within American architecture?
What was the Bauhaus movement?
What is not a feature of the Victorian Style:
A. Romantic and feminine ornamentation
B. A low pitched roof style
C. Assymetrical shape
D. Wood details with turrets or towers
What is not a feature of the Tudor Style:
A. Decorative Half Timbering
B. Steeply pitched roof
C. Tall, narrow, and multiple windows
D. Wrap around porch often made of wood
What is not a feature of the Craftsman Style
A. Horizontal, low and medium pitched roof
B. Wide eaves with exposed roof rafters
C. Round arches over windows and entryways
D. Built in Cabinets, shelving and seating on the interior.
What makes the Mission style stand out in comparison to an Arts and Crafts style?
What are the four steps of critiquing design or art?
What does casement mean?
Who’s Mies van der Rohe?
What does duplex mean?
What style is Ladder back chair?
What is Salt-box shape?
Describe a finial.
What is axminster carpet?
Describe a hipped roof.
Name 3 characteristics of Prairie houses.
What were the styles of the Early Victorian period?
List 5 prominent architects of the Victorian period.
Define Eclecticism.
what was the Beaux-Arts school of architecture teaching methods?
Name two Beaux-Arts building in U.S.A.
How did modernism in architecture came about?
Explain Frank Lloyd Wright 's philosophy?
What is a textile block?
Where did the Colonial style started in America and what were some of its furniture styles?
Describe the Federal style.
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