Folding Table Chair, Oak, 17th Century

• Baroque (Can we call this Baroque? The influence of Solomonic Columns on the legs is a Baroque characteristic, but is that enough?) yes?

• Folding table chair, 17th century

• Convertible chair that becomes a table

• Dark wood (oak)- Exotic woods

• Solomonic column inspired - corkscrew legs

• Dual-function was popular in homes with limited space

• Common in middle class homes

Dutch Family in Batavia (modern day Jakarta, Indonesia) 1665

• Pieter Cnoll

• Partially occupied by Spain until they revolted, won and joined rest of Netherlands

• Dark colors were influenced by the Spanish

• Dutch society boasted most religious tolerance -- most likely because of spanish oppression

• Most developed Jewish community

• Daniel quote oppressed people after independence tend to still dress like their oppressors (Spain)

• Women wearing bertha collars, ¾ length sleeves

• Shows the high status of the merchant with the servants pictured

• Dutch fashion: gorgeous fabrics, but modest style and neutral colors.

• Lace cravat on man

• Ornamentation with pearls and gold

• Spaniel Ears hairstyle

Imported Japanese Cabinet on a stand made in England, c. 1670

• lacquering/japanning

• Cabinet on a stand

• Chinese and Japanese began to make objects specifically for export for Western tastes

• European craftsmen started to imitate Asian lacquer

• In Britain the term 'japan' became associated with lacquer in the same way that 'china' was used for porcelain, and the word 'japanned' is still used to describe imitation lacquer.

• Sometimes the decoration is a clear indicator that a piece was made in Europe, if Western motifs are included, or if the scale of the motifs is inconsistent, such as large flowers or birds combined with tiny human figures

• Lacquer became available to European elites, along with other luxury items including silk and porcelain, once Portuguese explorers discovered a sea route to the East around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean.

• Baroque ornamentation on stand (grotesque influence?)

La Gallerie des Glaces, Versailles, c. 1680

• Versailles, Hall of Mirrors, late 17th century

• Social room

• Mirrors on the walls so they could see themselves and how good they looked- also reflected light into the room

• Parquet floor - wooden blocks in a geometric pattern

• French doors

• Ceilings were painted

• Huge chandeliers to provide more light

• BAROQUE

• All of the furniture was pushed to the sides, and they would pull the chairs out as people wanted to sit.

• Elaborate candle holders, with putti (another word for cherub)

• Statues in niches in the wall

• Pargeting- on the walls and ceilings- build up of plaster to create sculptures

• Bust ←?

"The Beautiful Woman from Strasbourg", France, 1703

• Nicolas de Largillière

• Regional clothes inspired by the peasant look

• Peasant style--taking something practical, turn it into fashion!

• Fichu - Neck scarf--originally to protect neckline from sweat, not practical here.

• Apron - not for cleaning

• Lashing - technique used on sleeves of garment

• French

• Engageantes - under sleeve that sticks out, usually lace

• “Dogs as an element of seduction”

• That makes me…. uncomfy

• Type of bi-corn hat (regional type)

• Black as a fashion color (unless this is mourning attire? Doesn’t look like it)

"The Declaration of Love" 1731, French, late Regency/Early Louis XV period

• Jean François de Troy

• Early 18th century, French Regency

• Sacque-back dress, with box pleats (Sacque is just french for sack, ‘cause it looks like a sack)

• Man is wearing a wig bag--little bag for queue (the little ponytail in the back)

• Powdered hair for men came after powdered hair for women

• Trying to be neoclassical by having themselves painted in front of some classic-lookin’ stuff

• Jabot (ruffles on the chest of men’s shirts)

• Men wearing cravats

• Ditto suit- 3 piece suit- matching vest, pants, jacket are all made of same material- lace cuff also matches lace collar/cravat

• Women wearing Louis heels

• Oriental fabric

• robes à la française (I don’t know if these dresses are fitted enough in the bodice. I think they’re all sacque dresses.

Voyeuse Chair, Early to mid 18th century, France

• “Voyeuse” feminine version of “voyeur,” like a creeper who gets off on watching other people. (To help remember the name)

• The women used the padded back to rest their arms on while they watched men play games.

• Used during the french regency

• King Louis XIV (the Sun king) dies his son and grandson die → the people RELAX

• Louis great grandson becomes king louis XV but he is still a child until he is of age this time is referred as the regency period

• The regent was Phillipe, Duke of Orleans  

• Rococo  - light, delicate, pale pastel colors, feminine, plant and floral decorations

• Baroque’s kawaii cousin

Men's embroidered formalwear ensemble, Great Britain, c. 1780-1790

• c. 1780 men’s formalwear coat

• Orientalism!!

• Cut-away coat

• Jabot- ruffle on front shirt (takes place of cravat)

• Queue- ponytail down center back

• Men’s powdered wigs came after womens’ (kept in wig bag)

• Considered Chinoiserie, although the fruits depicted are more indicative of the Dutch and English presence in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific

• typical of the inauthentic and combined view of the east that was present in Chinoiserie

Charles Honore Launnier, card table, Mahogonay and ormolu, New York 1819

• Charles Honore Launnier, most impressive and important cabinet maker in American History

• Federal furniture, Neoclassical style

• Mahogany = Tree

• Ormolu = gold casting

• EMPIRE AND REGENCY CHARACTERISTICS:

• Sphinxes, lions, swans, caryatids figures are examples of Egyptians and Etruscan motifs, along with Greek/Roman

• Symmetrical

• Claw foot, Greek and Roman CHARACTERISTICS

• Launnier -- furniture designer, was CRAZY about Egypt

• Is that Egyptomania?

• Absolutely

James McNeil Whistler, The Peacock Room, 1876

• This room is an example of orientalism (a hella example of it)

• Anglo-japanese style room

• was once the dining room of Frederick R. Leyland for his porcelain collection, London, England

• designed by architect Thomas Jeckyll

• James McNeil Whistler painted the peacocks and Christina Spartali’s portrait “The Princess from the Land of Porcelain”

• installed in the Smithsonian in 1904.

• Chinoiserie on shelves throughout the room

 John Redfern, trousseau for Princess Beatrice of Great Britain, Harpers Bazar, 1885

• Harper’s Bazar was an early fashion magazine!

• Transitional movement to make new silhouettes

• Princess line popped up (The line that goes from mid shoulder through the bust point and down) (Over tha nips)

• Dress came off the floor

• Butt adornments, rows of pleats

• The overall emphasis on the butt (erogenous zone) “can’t keep a good butt down” -Daniel Cole

• The second bustle period (1883-1889) actually came third!

• [ First bustle period (1870-1877)

• The Cuirasse Silhouette (1878-1882) ]

• Very high neckline

• Modest-sized hats

• Menswear influence

• Harder shape than previous decades

• Draped fabric over bustle, but not nearly as much as the First Bustle Period

Frank Lloyd Wright, Hillside Home School, Wisconson, 1902

• The beginnings of modernism

• Incorporated landscaping and terrain into design

• Frank Lloyd Wright strove for Organic architecture- promotion of harmony between human habitation and the natural world

• the Hillside School provided a key part of Wright's early resume