The American Empire is an American-style neoclassical style of furniture and decoration inspired by its name derived from the Imperial style introduced during the First French Empire period under the reign of Napoleon. It gained the greatest popularity in the United States after 1820 and is regarded as the second phase, a stronger phase of the Neoclassical style, which had previously been expressed in the style of Adam in England and Louis Seize, or Louis XVI, in France. As an early 19th century design movement in the United States, it includes architecture, furniture and other decorative arts, as well as visual arts.
In American furniture, the Empire style is mainly shown by the work of New York cabinet makers Duncan Phyfe and Charles-Honorà ©  © Lannuier who trained Paris. Other major furniture centers renowned for regional interpretation of the American-style style are Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Many examples of making the American Imperial cabinet are characterized by antique-inspired carvings, brass furnishings, and decorative decorations such as gilded ribbons with Greek egg-and-darts, diamonds or key patterns , or individual forms such as stars or circles.
The most intricate furniture in this style is made around 1815-25, often combining columns with rope-twist carvings, animal-animal legs, anthemions, stars, and acanthus leaf ornaments, sometimes in combination with plating and vert antique (antique green, old bronze simulation). The Red Room at the White House is a great example of the style of the American Empire. The simplest version of the furniture of the American Empire, often referred to as the Greek style, generally features more flexible surfaces in the form of arches, highly recognizable mahogany coatings, and occasionally decorated decorations with gold ornaments. Many examples of this style of survival, are exemplified by large chests of drawers with scroll pillars and glass pulls, work tables with scroll legs and fiddleback seats. The elements of style enjoyed a brief revival in the 1890s with, in particular, chests of drawers and dressers or dressers, usually executed in oak and oak veneers.
This American-style interpretation of the Empire's style continued to be popular in conservative areas outside major metropolitan centers far beyond the mid-nineteenth century.
Video American Empire style
See also
- Federal furniture
- Lighthouse Clock
- Trust of the Preservation of Classical American Houses
Maps American Empire style
References
- http://www.buffaloah.com/f/fstyles/emp/empire.html
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