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Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...
Casa Oleta Pililla, Rizal Ancestral house interior. Entresuelo – Mezzanine; literally meaning "between floors", this is the area where clients, tenants or estate managers (if the owner was a rich landowner) wait before being admitted to the oficina (office) Escalera – Stairway; Escritorio – A large chest of drawers, commonly adorned with ...
The elliptical Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer, the lobby for the main auditorium, is a mix of Classical Revival and Art Deco elements in a two-story space on the first and second floors, which features fluted red marble composite columns with gilded capitals, gilded trim, an ornate terrazzo floors, torchiere-style light fixtures, mural panels ...
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.
Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic North American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.
Stone trim adorns the first- and second-floor walls, forming beltcourses and arched window hoods carved with intricate rosettes, scrolls, and cherub faces. Elaborate eaves support the mansard roof, which subsumes the third floor. [2] A short staircase leads up to the double doors of the main entry, in the southwest corner of the building facing ...
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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 ...