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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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