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	Rococo style furniture
		The Rococo Style is the style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation.
		The rococo period corresponded roughly to the reign (1715- 74) of King Louis XV of France.
		The term rococo comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work," and hallmarks of the full-fledged style are architectural decoration based on arabesques, elaborate curves, and asymmetry; iridescent pastel colors; and, in painting, light-hearted rather than weighty subject matter.
	restorations.net /rococo/rococo.htm (295 words)

	Rococo biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Rococo style was readily received in the Catholic parts of Germany and in Bohemia and Austria, where it was even further exaggerated; it remained in favor until the 1780s, maybe even longer.
		The Rococo style accords very ill with the solemn office of the monstrance, the tabernacle, and the altar, and even of the pulpit.
		Iron (especially in railings) and bronze lose their coldness and hardness, when animated by the Rococo style; in the case of the latter, gilding may be used with advantage.
	rococo.biography.ms (1886 words)

	Rococo Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the mid-late 18th century, rococo was surpassed by the Neoclassical style.
		Rococo in England was always thought of as the "French taste." The architectural stylings never caught on, though silverwork, porcelain, and silks were strongly influenced by the continental style.
		There are certain Rococo chalices (like that at the monastery of Einsiedeln) which are, as one might say, decked out in choice festive array; there are others, which are more or less misshapen owing to their bulging curves or figures.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Rococo (2717 words)

	English Rococo Style Furniture
		While Rococo came to dominate the mid Georgian era in England from about 1740 there was much variety of furniture styles with frequent calls being made back to the earlier Palladian tradition as well as to the older and ever present Gothic style.
		In England in 1735 St Martin's Academy was established by the painter William Hogarth and the spreading of Rococo style began.
		Rococo Style Armchair, 1755, in limewood and pine, carved and gilded, by Mathias Lock.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/mid-georgian.html (777 words)

	Furniture, General Overview
		Although the Empire style could more likely be found in the first third of of the century and the Louis styles were revived on a broad basis during the last two thirds of the century, the history of furniture during the 19th century is much more complicated.
		The Rococo style, a part of the Louis styles, was considered to be feminine and was often used to furnish the drawing room or the boudoir whereas the gothic and renaissance style were held to be masculine and were a popular choice for the library, the study or the dining room.
		Concerning the Empire style, it must be seen in the context of the 'zeitgeist' during the Napoleonic era.
	gallery.sjsu.edu /paris/furniture/furniture/goview.htm (455 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rococo Style
		It might be termed the climax or degeneration of the Baroque, which, coupled with French grace, began towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV to convert grotesques into curves, lines, and bands (Jean Bérain, 1638-1711).
		The Rococo style was readily received in Germany, where it was still further perverted into the arbitrary, unsymmetrical, and unnatural, and remained in favour until 1770 (or even longer); it found no welcome in England.
		The phantasies of this style agree ill with the lofty and broad walls of the church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13106a.htm (1339 words)

	East Bay Imports - Antiques Timeline
		Furniture took on a graceful exuberance, characterized by asymmetry, the use of S-curves and C-scrolls, and naturalistic motifs derived from rocks, shells and plants.
		Furniture was made predominantly of oak, with bulbous pillar supports that reached massive proportions in the later 16th century.
		Elizabethan furniture designs, with their panels of open decoration and strapwork and profusion of knobs were well suited to mechanical reproduction.
	www.eastbayimports.com /timeline.php (3357 words)

	Rococo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rococo in England was always thought of as the "French taste" and was largely confined to silver, ceramics and furnishings, though rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in England.
		Rococo adopted a pleasure in asymmetry, a taste that was new to European style.
		Rococo is a style of architecture or decoration that originated in France in the early 1700s.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rococo.htm (2353 words)

	French furniture making in egypt, Egyptian Furniture, Antique French Furniture ,Egyptian Furniture, French Tables, ...
		This style derived from Roman architecture and was seen in France by the middle of the 12th century.
		Much of the best furniture of this period was therefore made for use in churches and monasteries, and many of the ideas and developments that were later to add to the domestic comfort of Europe originated in the cloister.
		The Mission style, from the early 20th century but enjoying a resurgence today, is inspired by the mission furniture of the Southwest that was made of rough-sawn lumber and pegs and dowels.
	www.ictfreight.com /french_furniture_making.htm (3634 words)

	Rococo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rococo is applied to the Louis XV period in France (1715-1774).
		The feminine look of the Rococo style suggests that the age was dominated by the taste and the social initiative of women, and, to a large extent it was.
		The Rococo salon was the center of early 18th-centruy Parisian society, and Paris was the social center of Europe.
	ah.bfn.org /f/fstyles/rococo/index.html (951 words)

	Rococo style furniture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The rococo period corresponded roughly to the reign (1715- 74) of King Louis XV of France.
		The term rococo comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work," and hallmarks of the full-fledged style are architectural decoration based on arabesques, elaborate curves, and asymmetry; iridescent pastel colors; and, in painting, light-hearted rather than weighty subject matter.
		The outstanding rococo painters were François Boucher, best known for his boudoir scenes with plump, pink nudes, and Jean Honoré Fragonard, renowned for his scenes of coy assignations in leafy glades and curtained alcoves.
	www.restorations.net /rococo/rococo.htm (295 words)

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		The Rococo Revival or "French Antique" style was popular in Paris and London as early as 1840; numerous design books illustrating it appeared in both cities and were circulated in America.
		It is not difficult to distinguish this 19th century revival style from its 18th century antecedent; lines tend to be heavier, the cabriole leg is less delicate, and the rear leg is chamfered at its base to give a sense of solidity.
		A style related to the Rococo was the Louis XIV Revival style but was not as popular, possibly because it was generally massive and busy.
	www.campbellauctions.com /vic2.html (770 words)

	Rococo style -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century but was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austria.
		The predominant style in architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts was Neoclassicism, a style that had come into its own during the last years of Louis XV's life, chiefly as a reaction to the excesses...
		Known in France as the Louis XV style, the rococo rejected the heaviness, symmetry, and Classical reference of the baroque in favor of the lighter, freer, more naturalistic mode of expression found, for example, in the drawings of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064011?tocId=9064011 (842 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - rococo
		Rococo Style, style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation.
		Rococo (music), a highly florid and decorative style of the 18th century.
		Baroque Art and Architecture, the style dominating the art and architecture of Europe and certain European colonies in the Americas throughout the...
	encarta.msn.com /rococo.html (110 words)

	Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rococo was an outgrowth of the Baroque period.
		The Rococo style often appears in decorative art (tapestries, furniture and porcelain) as well as other art and architecture.
		Rococo revered beauty, focusing on the delicate and the ornate, and celebrating the gratification of the senses.
	www.sanford-artedventures.com /study/g_rococo.html (120 words)

	History of Furniture page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Furniture built in this century began to escape the influence of fashion and richness for the principle of practicality and function.
		Furniture in the first half of the 18th century evolved in reaction against the formal, elaborate period of Baroque furniture of the 17th century.
		Rococo furniture was characterized by asymmetrical scrollwork, decorative motifs with informality and comfort in mind and originated in France.
	www.usd382.k12.ks.us /pedigo/histfurn/furnpg2.html (634 words)

	Victorian Rococo Furniture
		Victorian Rococo Furniture (19th and 20th Century, 1837 – 1901)
		Hence the style is one that incorporated both ancient Greek and Italian Renaissance characteristics.
		During this time period, Rococo was the predominate style used with cabriole legs, S-and-C scrolls, and the naturalistic carvings of fruit, birds, flowers, and human busts.
	www.lyonsantiques.com /victorian-rococo-furniture.htm (161 words)

	Furniture Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The styles grew progressively simpler and more refined: Louis XIV style is large and ornate; Louis XV is simpler but with curved lines and some ornamentation; Louis XVI has straight lines, geometric shapes and minimal ornamentation.
		Graceful and elegant, the style (named after the 18th century English monarch) is characterized by curved lines such as cabriole legs, broken scroll pediments and rounded aprons in tables and lowboys.
		Furniture is usually walnut, mahogany and rosewood in dark finishes, often highlighted with elaborate, carved floral designs.
	www.qualityfurnituremarket.com /glossary.html (3537 words)

	Magazine Antiques: The French rococo revival along the Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Belter is credited with the design of two rococo revival parlor suites in what is known today as the Rosalie pattern because they were bought by Eliza Wilson (1812-1892) of Natchez for her villa, Rosalie, while she was visiting her daughter at a boarding school in New York City in 1858 (see Pl. XI).
		Rococo revival furniture and other trappings found their way into every fashionable house along the Mississippi in the mid-nineteenth century.
		While furniture in this style was primarily used in the bedroom or parlor, it was often mingled with furniture in the many other revival styles.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_2_166/ai_n6276333/pg_2 (1307 words)

	Coastal Antiques and Art
		The rococo revival in furniture began in Europe in the 1820s and by the 1840s it had made its way to America, along with other revival styles.
		His furniture was so radically different than any of his contemporaries that it became known then, and today, as "Belter furniture." It was expensive in its day and now.
		When several pieces of laminated rococo revival pieces came to the Aug. 23 James Julia auction in Maine, the pieces attributed to Belter brought from $48,300 for a marble top table to a single side chair that sold for $7,475.
	www.coastalantiques.com /archives/november2002/ANTrococo.html (593 words)

	Rococo Furniture Style
		It surveys the changing styles that affected this art form, the craftsmen who made the furniture rococo furniture style and the kings rococo furniture style and courtiers who purchased it, rococo furniture style and the events -- from coronations to funerals -- at which upholstery played a leading role.
		Geoffrey Beard, an eminent authority on the lives rococo furniture style and work methods of craftsmen in the decorative arts, brings his wide knowledge of the historical background of furniture making rococo furniture style and usage in England to bear on this new branch of furniture history.
		Drawing on the texts of 44 important contemporary manuscripts, he moves chronologically, setting the activities of upholsterers rococo furniture style and their patrons against the wider panoply of English history.
	www.wlg-ltd.com /rococofurniturestyle.html (1095 words)

	18th century: the Rococo style (from furniture) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Furniture ranges widely from the simple pine chest or stickback country chair to the most elaborate marquetry work cabinet or gilded console table.
		furniture in which a mesh of split canes is stretched over parts of the framework, principally on the backs and seats of chairs.
		A mainly domestic type of architecture, the Tudor style was a transition between the Gothic and Renaissance styles in England.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-73733 (903 words)

	Article
		American furniture studies is not monolithic and, over the years, has been unmistakably committed to exploring aspects of aesthetic pluralism and regional diversity.
		Charles Montgomery characterized country furniture by its “bold statement of city elements,” perpetuation of tradition, use of native woods, and, perhaps most importantly, by the tendency of makers to borrow from whatever sources were handy.
		Specifically, we are led to a discussion of the mannered and conspicuously stylized furniture that was produced in places that may have felt threatened by the onslaught of urbanization, mass communications, and, eventually, the mass marketed furniture that put country joiners out of business.
	www.chipstone.org /publications/1995AF/1995hosleytext.html (5589 words)

	Rococo style furniture set in lacatta finish - 625335 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rococo style furniture set in lacatta finish - 625335
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		Rococo style French provincial furniture set including sofa, loveseat, chair and ottoman.
	www.feldmanfurniture.com /Rococostylefurnituresetinlacattafinish.html (96 words)

	Guide to the Chippendale Furniture Style from Connected Lines
		The Chippendale style is named after British designer and cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale who published his furniture designs in "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director" in 1754.
		In the United States, the Chippendale style was a more elaborate development of the Queen Anne style with cabriole legs, ball-and-claw foot, and broken pediment scroll top on tall case pieces.
		Identify and date furniture styles and furniture style components.
	www.connectedlines.com /styleguide/style08.htm (248 words)

	Antiques Roadshow/Antique Speak
		If the rococo style was a man, he wouldn't be a Shaker, says Sarah Shinn Pratt.
		Rococo brought to the arts a lighter and more elegant touch, which sometimes tended to the flamboyant.
		After France embraced rococo, the style migrated across the Continent, where its interpretation was sometimes more exaggerated, and to England and America, where it was muted.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/roadshow/speak/rococo.html (383 words)

	Custom Furniture Style
		furniture of the period, DeStijl furniture is characteristically simple and clean-lined.
		, the French furniture of the 16th Century was very detailed and graceful with inlay marquetry of ivory, mother of pearl, and various colors of wood.
		Many especially European furniture styles are further characterized by the name of the specific monarch or monarchical dynasty during the style's time period, such as
	www.giftsofwood.com /custom_furniture_style.htm (2850 words)

	July 2001 Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rococo (French derivative of words meaning rock & shells) is more of an ornament in art than a furniture style, however, as it is inherently asymmetrical in forms, and thus is difficult to incorporate in furniture.
		When furniture historians began to designate style periods, the name Chippendale was assigned to most of the English rococo furniture because of Chippendale’s book, not his furniture production, albeit prolific.
		The use of blocks and shells and possibly the use of darker shading of the outer-most perimeter frames and panels was an attempt to lessen the visual impact of the expansive volumes of the larger period pieces.
	www.cpfmg.org /Newsletters/July01.html (846 words)

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