Style Guide

Named after British furniture designer and cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, this graceful and refined style emerged following the 1754 publication of his furniture designs in “The Gentleman and the Cabinetmaker’s Director” and prevailed until 1790.

Describing a style that reigned from about 1933 to 1965, Mid-Century Modern built upon the foundation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of organic architecture and the simple forms that characterized the International Style and Bauhaus movements.

The Hollywood Regency style was characterized by high glamour and glitz and emerged through the work of interior designers, such as Dorothy Draper, Elsie de Wolfe, and William (Billy) Haines, who decorated the homes of film luminaries in Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s.

Biedermeier style shed the grandiose flourishes and monumentality that had characterized the Empire style

By Donna Sapolin In the second half of the 18th century, attention to the ruins of Andrea Palladio structures in Rome and Athens along with architectural discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii prompted a Greco-Roman style revival in the furniture of France and England. The style contrasted with and reacted against the

The Art Deco style, which was popular from 1925 until 1939, derived its name from a design exhibition held in Paris in 1925-the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

Taking root in Rome and then spreading throughout Europe between 1600 and 1750, the Baroque style aimed to inspire and rouse the emotions through dramatic and flamboyant design. English designers derived their design

Sumptuous and elaborate, the Empire style originated during Napoleon’s First Empire (1804-1815), and combined the grandeur and martial symbols of Rome with ancient Egyptian motifs and the elements of Greek architecture.

The Sheraton style, named after English designer Thomas Sheraton, predominated from 1780 to 1820. It was marked by a refined delicacy derived from straight lines, convex corners and detailed carved designs incorporating shields, urns, fan shapes, lyres, leaves, and stars

During the Victorian Age (1837-1901), which derives its name from Queen Victoria and her reign, design ideas were plucked from the past.