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Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs ( lit. 'Decorative Arts' ), [ 1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I ), [ 2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and ...
American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. [ 1] These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from ...
Architextiles is the architecture that is inspired by characteristics, elements, and manufacturing techniques of textiles. [1] It is a field that spans multiple disciplines. It is a combination of textile and architectural manufacturing techniques. Laser cutting, ultrasonic welding, thermoplastic setting, pultrusion, electrospinning, and other ...
First Period. First Period is an American architecture style originating between approximately 1626 and 1725, used primarily by British colonists during the settlement of the British colonies of North America, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia. Among U.S. counties, Essex County, Massachusetts has the highest number of preserved First ...
Eastlake movement. The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in terms of broad antique furniture designations. In architecture the Eastlake style ...
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
Timeline of architectural styles. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present. Architectural style • Architecture timeline. This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion.