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Periods and Styles of Furniture


DATES

BRITISH
MONARCH

BRITISH
PERIOD

FRENCH PERIOD

GERMAN
PERIOD

U.S.
PERIOD

STYLE

PRINCIPAL WOODS

1558-1603

Elizabeth I

Elizabethan

Renaissance

Renaissance
(to c. 1650)

 

Early Colonial

Gothic

Oak Period
(to c. 1670)

1603-1625

James I

Jacobean

1625-1649

Charles I

Carolean

Louis XIII
1610-43

Baroque
(c.1620-1700)

1649-1660

Commonwealth

Cromwellian

Louis XIV
(1643-1715)

Renaissance/
Baroque
(c.1650-1700)

1660-1685

Charles II

Restoration

1685-1688

James II

Restoration

1688-1694

William &Mary

William &Mary

William &Mary

1694-1702

William III

William III

Dutch Colonial

Rococo
(c.1695-1760)

1702-1714

Anne

Queen Ann

Baroque
(c.1700-30)

Queen Ann

Walnut period
(c.1670-1735)






Early
Mahogany
period
(c.1735-70)








Late
Mahogany
period
(c.1770-1850)

1714-1727

George I

Early Georgian

Regency
(1715-23)

1727-1760

George II

Early Georgian

Louis XV
(1723-74)

Rococo
(c.1730-60)

Chippendale
(from 1750)

1760-1811

George III

Late Georgeian

Louis XVI
(1774-93)

Directoire
(1793-99)

Empire
(1799-1815)

Neo-classicism
(c.1760-1800)


Empire
(c.1800-15)

Early Federal
(1790-1810)

American
Directoire
(1798-1804)

Amercan
Empire
(1804-15)

Neo-classical
(c.1755-1805)

Empire
(c.1799-1815)

1812-1820

George III

Regency

Restauration
(1815-30)

Biedermeier
(c.1815-48)

Later Federal
(1810-30)

Regency
(c.1812-80)

1820-1830

George IV

Regency

1830-1837

William IV

William IV

Louis Philippe
(1830-48)

2nd Empire
(1848-70)

3rd Republic
(1871-1940)

Revivale
(C.1830-80)

Jugendstil
(c.1880-1920)

Eclectic
(c.1830-80)

Arts&Crafts
(c.1880-1900)

1837-1901

Victorian

Victorian

Victorian

1901-1910

Edward VII

Edwardian

Art Nouveau
(c.1900-20)

Art Nouveau
(c.1900-20)

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