History of Interior Design and Decoration Flashcards
It is a Renaissance Italian style of elaborate inlay of bone, ivory, light-colored wood, metal, or other material in stylized designs
Certosina
Known as “American Chippendale”
John Folwell
This postmodernist architect introduced his style to the world in the form of a be-swagged, multicolored building in Portland, Oregon, in 1982.
Michael Graves
A distinctive furniture front that is divided vertically through alternating convex (sides) and concave (centre) panels. This is a unique version of the Queen Anne style developed in the workshop of Goddard (and Townsend) in Newport, Rhode Island.
Blockfront
A rectangular building plan consisting of a nave terminating in an apse, with aisles on one or more sides separated from the nave by a screen of columns.
The building type has its origins in the large public meeting halls and law courts of Republican and Imperial Rome, and was later adopted for the earliest Christian churches. The central nave is often higher than the side aisles, allowing for the insertion of windows known as clerestory windows.
Basilica
Anihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century.
Dada
It is an Italian word which describes the soft low relief in gesso normally used as a ground for gilding, either within a painting (especially Italian panel paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries) or on frames; bas relief by adding successive layers of thing plaster over a surface covered with fine fabric
Pastiglia
A type of office-planning (literally “office-landscape”) evolved in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s by Eberhard & Wolfgang Schnelle.
Bürolandschaft
All structures surround the Danlu in the center.
Reflects Taoist philosophy that the human cosmos follows the natural cosmos to integrate energy.
Ba-gua
A decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s using elements intended to suggest modern technological developments.
Art Deco
A porch or vestibule at the front of the nave of an Early Christian church.
Narthex
An alcove in a traditional Japanese house where a picture is hung and a vase or some other ornamental object is placed.
Tokonama
A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Surrealism
The design period in England and America corresponding to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
Victorian
Early medieval church in Finland using massive vertical structural members.
Stave Church
The architectural style of the later Middle Ages characterized by the use of pointed arches.
Gothic
Elaborate decorative inlay work often forming abstract or pictorial design, as used in the Italian Renaissance.
Intarsia
Traditionally large ceremonial benches carved for wealthy Ifugao families as a symbol of wealth, power and prestige.
Hagabi
Originally, an ancient Roman courthouse of a type that became a Christian church, having a high central nave with lower aisles on either side.
Basilica
20th-century modern architecture and design featuring elements typical of advanced technological design, such as that of aircraft and spacecraft.
High-tech
Spanish Baroque design of 1650 to 1780.
Churrigueresco
Ancient Roman simplified Doric order.
Tuscan
A Dutch movement (1917–31) of early modernism in art and design.
De Stijl
The architectural and design style developing from the latter phase of the Renaissance. Spaces of complex form with elaborate decorative detail are typical.
Baroque
A handmade French rug or carpet with a flat weave.
aubusson
A French form of elaborate bed in a form suggesting a boat, developed in the Empire period. Suggest a gondola or sleigh bed form
Lit en bateau
“Boat Bed”
A form of drop-fronted desk developed in the Spanish Renaissance.
Vargueno
The surrealist artist who painted “The Broken Column”.
Frida Kahlo
Art and design style striving for emotional expression.
Expressionism
A period of French Neoclassical design corresponding to the reign of Napoleon (1804–14).
Empire
French design of the post-revolutionary period (1795–1804) emphasizing ancient Roman decorative elements.
Directoire
Ceiling painting in perspective with upward-looking illusion.
Di sotto in su
An English Tudor folding chair with X-leg base
Glastonbury Chair
The second of the three orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Column capitals are characterized by the use of a pair of volutes of spiral form.
Ionic
A late 19th-century stylistic development using flowing curves and nature inspired elements to replace historic decorative elements.
Art Nouveau
The topmost block of a Greek Doric column capital.
abacus
A 19th-century style in which the forms of medieval Gothic architecture are used.
Gothic Revival
Italian Renaissance ornate chest with paneled back and arms so that it can also be used as a bench.
Cassapanca
An ornamental leaf element surrounding the capital of a Corinthian column.
Acanthus
The Romanesque style of France and Germany from 750 to 1000 c.e.
Carolingian
In his surrealist painting, “The Son of Man”, he evoked mystery but mystery for him does not mean anything because mystery means nothing.
Rene Magritte
He was known for his pasteural or genre scenes. Portrayed the Philippines’ identity using genre scenes and mostly painted dalagang Pilipina.
Fernando Amorsolo
Amorsolo’s mentor. He is the country’s 1st National Artist. His works capture the warmth of the sun and the tropical scenery; 1st dean of UP Fine Arts.
Fabian de La Rosa
Prehistoric arrangements of large stones in straight lines.
Alignment
French term for furniture using outward swelling curves.
Bombe
A low upholstered armchair with enclosed sides introduced in France during Louis XV period.
Bergere
(Barjier/Barjeer: Hepplewhite’s term for a closed armchair)
Use of decorative elements derived from Chinese traditional design in 18th-century France and England.
Chinoiserie
Chinese furniture maker Ah Tay popularized this motif in his designs
Kalabasa
A canopy supported by columns, usually above an altar or tomb.
Baldacchino
The style of the English and American periods corresponding to the reigns of the English kings George I to George IV (1714–1830).
Georgian
An ancient Greek form of chair with forward curving front legs and curved rear leg and back supports supporting a concave curved back.
Klismos
A 20th-century architectural style based on function, usually without ornament, devoid of regional character, and characterized by flat roofs and large glass areas.
International Style
Sent to US to be one the 1st pensionados in architecture; architect of the Manila Post Office
Juan Arellano
Designer of the Ball Chair
Eero Aarnio
Interest in romantic concepts such as medieval and Gothic periods as developed in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Romanticisim
A German school of art and design of 1919 to 1932. Under the direction of Walter Gropius, the school was strongly influential in the development of modernism in all aspects of design.
Bauhaus
Carved wooden surface ornament suggesting folded linen.
Linenfold
In ancient Roman architecture, a pool or cistern in the center of a courtyard open to the sky.
Impluvium
Victor Horta and Henry Van De Velde are influential proponents of what architectural style?
Art Nouveau
Triangular form created by the end of a gable. The pediments of classical Greek and Roman architecture are often used as ornamental detail in interiors and furniture.
Pediment
An arch of semicircular form as used in ancient Roman architecture.
Roman Arch
Invented the tubular steel furniture, evident in his Wassily chair.
Marcel Breuer
2nd-gen architect known for his works: Perez-Samanillo bldg., and Regina bldg.
Andres Luna de San Pedro
A triangular area of masonry used to connect the base of a dome to a square space below
Pendentive
Late Spanish Renaissance decorative style using minimal decorative detail.
Desornamentado
The triangular panel formed within a pediment.
Tympanum
A Japanese Transom
Ranma
Term given to large apartment dwellings as developed in the 20th century by Le Corbusier.
Unité d’habitation
An architectural style developed at the French school of art and design in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Beaux-Arts
A stone of an arch, wedge-shaped to retain its place in the completed arch structure.
Voussoir
An abstract artist who is known for Phil. modern art.
His work Carroza is an almost abstract depiction of a carriage carrying the Virgin Mary.
Fernando Zobel
Modern architectural style using massive elements, usually of exposed concrete.
Brutalism
A type of medieval vaulting in which the vault surface was made up of six parts.
Sexpartite
A large ornamental screen or altarpiece behind the church altar usually sculptured or decorated
Reredo
Designer of Argyle Chair
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
An s-curve motif of decorative art and design that was particularly popular in Art Nouveau.
Whiplash
A great wooden roof of projecting, bracket- like elements which is the crowning achievement in English Gothic architecture and open-timber roof design;
A type of truss in which a horizontal tie at the base is
omitted
Hammerbeam roof
Is a stool made by nendo, Oki Sato, from the paper by-products used in the clothing production process of renowned designer Issey Miyake.
Cabbage Chair 2008
French Louis XVI revival style of 1850s and 1860s.
Second Empire Style
An elaborately sculptured backing for an altar in a Spanish cathedral, permitting observation of the sacrament from the chancel and from the ambulatory behind
Transparente
Sanctuary area of an early mosque with wood or stone perforated enclosure.
Maksura
Also maksoorah
The architectural style of the early Middle Ages in Europe, characterized by use of Roman arch forms. The term Norman is used in England.
Romanesque
English design style of the early 18th century, named for the English queen (reigned 1702–14). The style was revived in the second half of the 19th century, marking a return to Neoclassicism.
Queen Anne
French wood-carver and interior designer, a leader in the development of interior decorating in the light, asymmetric, lavishly decorated Rococo style.
Nicolas Pineau
A prayer hall, the most important type of religious building in Islamic countries.
Mosque
A massive masonry element as used on either side of the entrance front of ancient Egyptian temples
Pylon
Early to mid-16thcentury Spanish design style , characterized by fine detail suggesting the work of a silversmith.
Plateresco
Furniture unit with a three-part front, projecting on either side and recessed in the center; a popular type with 18th-century American (especially New England) cabinet makers.
Blockfront, also Tub front
Spanish decorative style developed under Islamic influence in the 13th to 17th centuries, characterized by a fusion of Romanesque and Gothic with Islamic elements
Mudejar
Realistic painting technique creating an illusion of reality (literally, “fools the eye”).
Trompe L’oiel
A panel carved in three vertical strips used in alternation with the metopes that ornamented the frieze of a Greek Doric entablature.
Triglyph
An aesthetic movement of the latter half of the 19th century in England, led by the teaching of William Morris.
Arts and Crafts
An unaristocratic but rendered bourgeois, German 19th-century style of furniture, combining Neoclassical and provincial elements.
Biedermeier
From comic Papa Biedermeier
French term for a couch or sofa.
Canape
In late 20th-century architecture, design making use of broken and separated elements.
Deconstructivism
Outward-projecting arm on either side of a cathedral or church forming a cross-shaped (cruciform) plan.
Transept
The last period of French Gothic architecture (14th to 16th centuries) characterized by elaborate flame-like decorative tracery.
Flamboyant
A prehistoric grouping of stones made up of two or three upright stones topped with a horizontal. Probably part of an ancient tomb.
Dolmen
The simplest of the Greek and Roman classical orders of architecture
Doric
A bed fitted into an enclosing alcove.
Dutch Bed
Carved parallel grooves as used on the shafts of classical columns
Fluting
A buttress of half-arch form, spanning over an open space to a point where pressure is applied to resist the thrust of an internal vault.
Flying Buttress
Italian art and design style of the 1920s featuring movement, mechanization, and speed
Futurism
Design using little or no decorative detail; chiefly American movement in the visual arts and music for simplicity of form and literally objective approach
Minimalism
The French style of architecture and design typical of the period of the reign of __. The term Baroque is used to describe the character of the style.
Louis XIV style
The French style of architecture and design of the period 1730–65, named for the king who reigned from 1723 to 1774. The character of the period is usually designated as Rococo.
Louis XV style
The design style of 1765 to 1790 in France, named for __ who reigned from 1774 to 1792. The period is characterized by Neoclassical restraint.
Louis XVI style
It is also called Horn Of Plenty, decorative motif, dating from ancient Greece, that symbolizes abundance. The motif originated as a curved goat’s horn filled to overflowing with fruit and grain.
Cornucopia
Informal term for elaborate Victorian surface ornament, open stickwork verandas.
Gingerbread
Large Dutch wardrobe cabinet with hinged door front.
Kas
A term applied to architecture and design in Italy toward the end of the Renaissance, in which there was an eff ort to escape the strict classicism of the High Renaissance. The term is also used to identify work in northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term has been applied to modern work which attempts to replace the domination of modernism.
Mannerism
20th-century architectural and design styles based on function and structure; Period of “Form Follows Function”
Modernism
French for Bull’s-eye window, means “eye of the steer,” a small circular or oval window, usually resembling a wheel, with glazing bars (bars framing the panes of glass) as spokes radiating outward from an empty hub, or circular centre.
Oeil-de-boeuf
In ancient Greek architecture, small modifications in seemingly straight lines and geometric relationships intended to correct for optical distortions and improve aesthetic qualities.
Refinements
Chest or other container for the relic of a revered saint or other personage.
Reliquiary
An elaborate iron grille in Renaissance Spanish church interiors.
Reja
A style of architecture and decoration of the 18th century following the Baroque period, which made use of simpler forms and more delicate decoration than the Baroque style.
Rococo
Reserved and simple style as developed by the American Shaker religious society.
Shaker style
French wood-carver and interior designer, a leader in the development of interior decorating in the light, asymmetric, lavishly decorated Rococo style.
Nicolas Pineau
Consulting architect during the post-colonial years known for his work on Quezon Memorial.
Federico Illustre
A Baroque technique that means darkened and obscuring. It is used to describe a certain type of painting in which significant details such as faces and hands are illuminated by highlights which are contrasted with a predominantly dark setting.
Tenebrism
The term was coined by Harold Rosenberg.
It is applied to artists working from the 1940s until the early 1960s whose approach to painting emphasized the physical act of painting as an essential part of the finished work. Their process, involved splashing, using gestural brushstrokes and dripping paint onto canvas rather than carefully applying it.
Action painting
Niche in a mosque oriented toward Mecca; because of its importance, it is usually the most ornate part of a mosque, highly decorated and often embellished with inscriptions from the Qur’an.
Mihrab
It is paint that is applied in quantities that make it stand out from the surface. It was used frequently to mimic the broken-textured quality of highlights, such in the works of van Gogh, building up and defining the forms in his paintings with thick, nervous dabs of paint.
Impasto
60s American style whose popular imagery was derived from commercial sources.
Considered as the real American art.
Pop Art
Leading figure in the pop art movement.
Explores the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement.
Subjects he painted were commodities.
Andy Warhol
Architect of the Sydney opera House.
John Utzon
In Post Modernism, it is the design that is deliberately tasteless to reflect the human appetite for mischief, or the general public’s lack of design sophistication..
Kitsch
An ancient Roman symbol of imperial power, in the form of a bunch of sticks tied together. The form was revived in decorative design of the Empire period in France to symbolize the power and ambitions of Napoleon.
Fasces
Spanish term for a lantern or elevated structure above a main roof to permit window openings.
Cimborio
An architectural style that comes from a French term that translates to “rough concrete”. It emphasizes the aesthetic use of basic building processes especially of cast-in-place concrete; based on the shaped and molded forms of concrete.
Brutalism
He became the best -known practitioner working in the deconstructivist idiom with the unconventional design of his Santa Monica home and Guggenheim Museum.
Frank Gehry
Stylized design of a bird holding a fish in its beak; Lake Lanao’s fertile waters.
Sarimanok
A chair with a simple saddle seat using many thin wood turnings to support a bent-back rim.
Windsor chair
A Buddhist religious monument, usually of domelike form, often containing a relic. It may be a complete building or part of a building, either external or internal.
Stupa
Father of Post Modernism
Robert Venturi
Dish storage in the kitchen.
Paminggalan
Open shelf of bamboo slats used for drying plates.
Banggerahan
Vestibule for storage.
Zaguan
Vernacular: Grand staircase
Escalera
A tie dye process by the Tboli of Cotabato; Gmayaw bird.
Tnalak
Vernacular: Latrina
Toilet
Vernacular: China cabinet; Glass cabinet for storing silverware and China.
Vajilera
Vernacular: Wooden balusters
Barandillas
Vernacular: Pierced transom between the wall and ceiling.
Calado
Vernacular: Little windows; small windows under the wooden casement protected by either wooden balusters or iron grills.
Ventanilla
Vernacular: Protective shade over windows.
Media Agua
Meaning “ Twill” in Ilocano. It is a variation of the abel recognized by its uniform, interlocked geometric patterns that result in psychedelic optical art designs, among the people of the Cordilleras as protection against malevolent spirits.
Binacol
What are Japanese vertical, hanging scroll paintings called?
Kakemono
An ancient Roman symbol of imperial power, in the form of a bunch of sticks tied together. The form was revived in decorative design of the Empire period in France to symbolize the power and ambitions of Napoleon.
Fasces
A form of decorative vaulting in Islamic architecture. The surface of a vault or dome is subdivided into niche-like cells that have no load-bearing function. Also know as stalactite vaulting or honeycomb vaulting.
Muqarnas
A decorative motif representing an ox killed in religious sacrifice. The motif has been found on painted pottery in Iraq dating from 5000 BC. It was later imported into Bronze Age Crete as part of the bull and double-ax cult, where the bull’s head was decorated with a garland of bay leaves.
Bucranium
Yakan people are recognized for their remarkable technicolor, geometric weaves. The Malong is an example of this one.
Inaul
A keystone used in medieval architecture in vaulting to provide a projecting junction for intersecting ribs and to cover the actual complex of mitered joints; also in 17/18thC English and American furniture designs
Boss
Ornament using projecting form based on foliage.
Crocket
Vernacular: Baby crib
Kuna
Vernacular: Lazy chair; Lounging chair derived from Chinese reclining chairs. Caned seats, crested backs and carved or splayed legs.
Sillion Perezosa
Vernacular: Friar’s chair
Silla Frailuna, or
Sillon Fraille
Vernacular: A reclining chair with a curved backrest; also a plantation chair with extended flat and longer wide armrests that also acted as foot stools.
Butaka
Vernacular: Settee or bench patterned after the church pew.
Kapiya
Vernacular: Settee with wooden skirting where chickens could be temporarily stored.
Gallinera
Vernacular: Philippine counterpart of bentwood chair.
Batibot Chair
Vernacular: Window or procession highchair placed near doors or windows to get a good view of passers-by.
Pamintuan Chair Or Pamimintana Chair
Vernacular: Sofa with caned seats and back that is butterfly-shaped.
Mariposa
Vernacular: Built to serve as lounge chair and day bed.
Diban
Vernacular: Desk or writing table with a roll top.
Escritoryo
Vernacular: A cross between a table and commoda.
Has 2 or 3 large drawers supported on four legs reinforced by a stretcher.
Mesa Altar
Vernacular: Vanity with a provision for a basin for washing one’s face.
Lavador Contocador
Vernacular: Ladies’ dresser with drawers and a mounted mirror.
Painadora
Vernacular: A more elaborate painadora.
Features 3-full length mirrors and the side mirrors could be adjusted so that the woman could see herself in three angles.
Tremor
Vernacular: Upright chest of drawers where table linens and small articles were kept.
Comoda
Vernacular: Generic name for cabinet.
Used for wardrobe storage.
Aparador
Vernacular: Furniture for stacking pillows.
Almario
Vernacular: 3 moons. Clothes cabinet with a mirror on each of its three doors
Tres de luna
A grouping of chapels around the choir and ambulatory of a Gothic cathedral.
Chevet
A buttress of half-arch form, spanning over an open space to a point where pressure is applied to resist the thrust of an internal vault
Flying butress
Church having one large interior nave space without aisles
Hall church
A hollow space beneath the floors of some ancient Roman buildings providing heat from flue gases passing through the space from a remote furnace.
hypocaust
In ancient Roman architecture, a pool or cistern in the center of a courtyard open to the sky.
Impluvium
Term associated with the style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by flat areas of colour and bold outlines.
Synthetism
A British term for Art Nouveau style.
Liberty Style
The large central hall space of early Greek palaces.
Megaron
