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2. Louis Philippe style - Wikipedia

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   The style of architecture and design under King Louis Philippe I (1830–1848) was a more eclectic development of French neoclassicism, incorporating elements of neo-Gothic and other styles. It was the first French decorative style imposed not by royalty, but by the tastes of the growing French upper class.

3. Daniel Pabst - Wikipedia

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   Born in Langenstein, Hesse, Germany, Pabst immigrated to the U.S. in 1849 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he would make his professional career.The excellence of his craftsmanship elevated him above his peers, as did the strongly architectonic (building-like) quality of his furniture designs—often massively scaled, with columns, pilasters, rounded and Gothic arches, bold ...

4. Gothic Revival decorative arts - Wikipedia

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   This style was also as "Cathedral style" ("À la catédrale") or "Troubadour style" ("style troubadour"). [1] [2] For a long time, it was believed that romanticism was the cause of the return to the Gothic style in French decorative arts and that it was appropriate to look for its origin there. This is actually much further away.

5. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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   Settees were made at this time whose backs consisted of several just such immense scallops as those of these Holland House Gilt Chamber chairs; [3] and the same idea of decoration peeps out in fan-like frills at every spare corner of the Neo-Jacobean revival of the style. These shell forms of furniture might befit an oceanside home, but they ...

6. Gothic Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   Gothic façade of the Parlement de Rouen in France, built between 1499 and 1508, which inspired neo-Gothic revival in the 19th century. French neo-Gothic had its roots in the French medieval Gothic architecture, where it was created in the 12th century. Gothic architecture was sometimes known during the medieval period as the "Opus Francigenum ...

7. Second Empire style - Wikipedia

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   Second Empire style, also known as the Napoleon III style, is a highly eclectic style of architecture and decorative arts originating in the Second French Empire. It was characterized by elements of many different historical styles, and also made innovative use of modern materials, such as iron frameworks and glass skylights.