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Empowered slightly by societal change, and mostly
by society's obsession for change itself, furniture and art movements
have historically swept from country to country. Sometimes, the
"Period" or "Style" titles in those various lands are much more
differing and confusing than the inspiration behind them.
|
Circa |
WORLD STYLE |
ENGLISH |
FRENCH |
GERMAN |
AMERICAN |
|
1550 |
Gothic |
Elizabethan |
Renaissance |
Renaissance |
Pilgrim |
|
1610 |
Gothic |
Jacobean |
Renaissance |
Renaissance |
Pilgrim |
|
1620 |
Gothic |
Jacobean |
Louis XIII |
Renaissance |
Pilgrim |
|
1625 |
Baroque |
Cromwellian |
Louis XIII |
Renaissance |
Pilgrim |
|
1650 |
Baroque |
Commonwealth |
Louis XIV |
Baroque |
Pilgrim |
|
1660 |
Baroque |
Restoration |
Louis XIV |
Baroque |
Early Colonial |
|
1690 |
Baroque |
William & Mary |
Louis XIV |
Baroque |
Early Colonial |
|
1715 |
Baroque |
Queen Anne |
Rengence |
Baroque |
William & Mary |
|
1725 |
Rococo |
Queen Anne |
Louis XV |
Baroque |
William & Mary |
|
1730 |
Rococo |
Queen Anne |
Louis XV |
Rococo |
Queen Anne |
|
1740 |
Rococo |
Chippendale |
Louis XV |
Rococo |
Queen Anne |
|
1750 |
Rococo |
Chippendale |
Louis XV |
Rococo |
Chippendale |
|
1760 |
Neo Classic |
Chippendale |
Louis XV |
Neo-Classicism |
Chippendale |
|
1790 |
Neo Classic |
Hepplewhite |
Louis XVI |
Neo-Classicism |
Federal |
|
1795 |
Neo Classic |
Sheraton |
Directoire |
Neo-Classicism |
Federal/Hepplewhite |
|
1800 |
Empire |
Sheraton |
Empire |
Empire |
Federal/Sheraton |
|
1815 |
Regency |
Regency |
Restauration |
Biedermeier |
Federal/Neo
Classic |
|
1830 |
Eclectic Style |
Regency |
Louis Philipps |
Biedermeier |
Late Federal |
|
1840 |
Eclectic Style |
William IV |
Louis Philipps |
Biedermeier |
Empire |
|
1860 |
Eclectic Style |
Victorian |
2nd Empire |
Revivale |
Victorian |
|
1880 |
Arts & Crafts |
Arts & Crafts |
3rd Republic |
Jugendstil |
Vict. / Arts &
Crafts |
|
1900 |
Art Nouveau |
Edwardian |
Art Nouveau |
Jugendstil |
Art
Nouveau/Mission |
|
1930 |
Art Moderne |
Edwardian |
Art Moderne |
Art Moderne |
Art Deco |
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