Bacchante Furniture November 27, 2011 at 10:23 am
Backs of chairs are often decorated with a cross-cutting openwork carving. In addition to the mahogany used lemon, and painted in white, gray or green colors beech. Often found encrusting lemon and ebony. Ornaments made of bronze look like herself shy. Greece and Rome continue to possess the minds of furniture, "supplying" them new motives for ornament. This palmettos, framed diamond daisy (at Louis XVI, they were enclosed in a square), Corinthian and Ionic capitals, caryatids, vase, stars. The animals: winged gargoyles, swans, lions. As the details of the master are fond of using animal muzzle and paws.
Idle fauns, careless Bacchante and field flowers fade; take their place nymphs, stretch the palm branch or wreath, the winged genius and fortune. From the Revolution went to a different style, militant symbols: a cross peaks Axes, cap badges, tables of the law, the branches of oak, Gallic Cock and spoils of war. All of these motifs often consist in a diamond, oval, or hexagon. Country Country – style, with lots of people: depending on the country, whose it reproduces the color can change almost all the decorative elements in the interior. The principal and constant feature of the Country is a bright, strongly close to the village design. In the furniture and decoration premises used exclusively natural materials: wood, stone, etc. The style also characterized the abundance of textiles in all variations: textiles on the windows, upholstered furniture, as decoration on the walls. Chinese Decoration Chinese homes is very different in style from other Eastern peoples. Corey Singman gathered all the information.