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At the end of the Restoration (1814–1830) and during the Louis-Philippe period (1830-1848), Gothic Revival motifs start to appear in France, together with revivals of the Renaissance and of Rococo. During these two periods, the vogue for medieval things led craftsmen to adopt Gothic decorative motifs in their work, such as bell turrets ...
Dantesca is a type of chair used during the Italian Renaissance.The arms end in scrolls and continue all the way up to the back support. It is made to look like it can fold, but in reality, it cannot.
Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1877–1880) is a piece of Modern Gothic furniture now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although its design was once attributed to Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and furniture maker Daniel Pabst , MMA now credits its design and manufacture to Pabst alone.
Kimbel & Cabus display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Kimbel & Cabus was a Victorian-era furniture and decorative arts firm based in New York City. The partnership was formed in 1862 between German-born cabinetmaker Anthony Kimbel (c. 1821 –1895) [1] and French-born cabinetmaker Joseph Cabus (1824–1894).
"Interior View of Dining-Room" (1876), illustration by Bruce James Talbert.. Modern Gothic, also known as Reformed Gothic, was an Aesthetic Movement style of the 1860s and 1870s in architecture, furniture and decorative arts, that was popular in Great Britain and the United States.
The importation of furniture into England from Flanders and Holland was so significant that a hundred years earlier a law was enacted forbidding the practice — nevertheless carved woodwork was one of the important articles of commerce with the Low Countries, and the country homes of England of this period were filled with articles of Dutch ...
There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers rather used and modified many styles taken from various time periods in history like Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others. The Gothic and Rococo revival style were the most common styles to be seen in furniture during this time in ...
A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture. [1] The name derives from the diminutive of the Old French croc , meaning "hook", due to the resemblance of a crocket to a bishop 's crook -shaped crosier .