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Read more about different styles and epochs in furniture designs:
Russian Ampir (Empire) style
In
history of the European classicism of the end of XVIII - beginning of XIX
century the special place belongs to Russia. Intensive development of
Russian art culture occurs on a background of large historical events. A
victory over Napoleon, building in St. Petersburg of many
stately architectural ensembles, restoration of Moscow - all this has served as favorable
circumstances for magnificent blossoming Russian empire style.
Among
builders of the new magnificent palaces erected during this period in the capital
and its vicinities were many of the foreign masters who have worked in
classical style. The palace furniture of the “Empire” style, created under
their projects had cold enough, severe character. In the beginning furniture
forms were not free from influence of French and English samples, but already
very soon Russian furniture art gets independent character.
The
furniture executed from exotic or domestic breeds of a tree (mahogany, Karelian
birch, a walnut, a poplar, etc.) is often painted in white color and finished
with gold vine in a groove. Alongside with magnificent smart furniture, the
masters of Russian empire style also created simpler, convenient furniture for
provincial manors and prosperous layers of urban population.
Russian
empire style - is the phenomenon original, though initial style elements also
make it related with French and Central European empire forms. The furniture of
Russian empire style features exclusive beauty, a subtlety of taste and wonderful decorative effect.
Russian
furniture of empire style very noticeably differs from foreign samples. Its
forms are easier, more rough and in all, it is much more monumental.
In
difference from France where
ornaments for decoration were designed by Persie and Fontain, in Russia they
were made by not less talented architects of Tom De Tomon and Rossi. Today in
Russia you can find plenty of every possible samples of chairs, tables,
armchairs, sofas and the cases designed by Rossi that are well preserved in
it’s original condition. Many excellent samples of this furniture are stored in
assemblies of the State Hermitage.
The
main distinctive feature of Russian furniture of empire style is the strict
submission to laws of architecture, with usual for architecture partitioning in
a horizontal and vertical direction. Separate lines are strictly calculated in
each piece. It strengthens and emphasizes the general composition of a subject.
The ornaments are concentrated in the separate certain places on rather small
space of wide planes. This is what gives the Russian empire style its unique
look and appeal. The golden grooves in Russian furniture soon disappear and it
is replaced with the gilt mold made from plaster or a groove from a tree. As
motives the elements popular during this time serve: a laurel wreath, the lyre
symmetric pelmet, acanthus leaves , massive eagles, the griffons, the stylized
swans with bent in a loop a neck, sphinxes and lions, chimeras and other
fantastic animals with brawny bodies, sinewy legs, furious muzzles and the
beaks – that seemed to have fallen
asleep in symmetry.
Motives
of animals and monsters were very often used for armrests, handles and legs of
sofas. Armchairs have
either deaf, or through backs, their form was especially often made semicircular,
in the form of a trough. The type of a round or octagonal coffee table on one
rack in the form of a curbstone has widely been developed. Cases, lockers,
secretaries, hills and mirrors were decorated with eaves, friezes and columns. The
furniture of Russian empire style amazes an eye with beauty of the proportions
and a coordination of separate parts, but at the same time it has some rigidity
and absence of that comfort for which the furniture of XVIII century was so
famous.
In
Russian furniture of empire style it is necessary to distinguish some periods
and three sharply differing versions.
First - furniture produced under orders of a
royal family and representatives of ruling class, with the forms, proportions
and ornaments closer to French. It was the furniture made from solid mahogany
or the Karelian birch, with the massive bronze overlays, produced in capital’s
most modern workshops under the supervision of such masters like Hambs and
Tour.
Second - the furniture more modest on the
material and scenery. It was the furniture which was made in workshops of local
landlords, with more friable, as though swelled forms with the material for its
manufacturing being the birch, an ash and a linden. In the forms it repeated
samples of capital furniture, sometimes absolutely precisely, but more often
with variants, according to individual taste of the customer. On
this furniture bronze ornaments are replaced with a groove from a tree, quite
flat but with enough detail and a stucco mold. Different parts were painted in
black color or plated with gold.
And,
at last, the third version was the style altered for greater convenience. An
empire style, which in the West - Germany,
Austria and England - has
received the name "Bidermeyer". Russian Bidermeyer was stricter and was closer to
an empire style. Its distribution grasps the period 30-40-х years of XIX
century.
It was
especially popular among merchant class and was widely used by it. Samples of
this version of Russian empire style are featured on such paintings as
"Courtship of the major" in A.F.Fedotova's pictures, etc... This
furniture (made to resemble mahogany) had many clearly national features and
because of that, it stayed popular for the most of XIX century.
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