Architecture Interiors Report by: Nicdao, Pasion, Garcia DLS-College of St. Benilde School of Architecture 3rd Term S.Y. 2015-16 June 2016

1. REGENCY

2. Regency Era

3. REGENCY ERA
• was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule
and his son, the Prince of Wales, ruled as his proxy as Prince
Regent
• The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various
dates with some given a longer period than the decade of
the formal Regency which lasted 1811-1820.
• The Regency era formally ended in 1837 when Queen
Victoria succeeded William IV.

4. REGENCY STYLE
• is applied to interior design and decorative arts of the period,
typified by elegant furniture and vertically striped wallpaper,
and to styles of clothing; for males, as typified by the
dandy Beau Brummell, for women the Empire silhouette
• The style is strictly the late phase of Georgian architecture,
and follows closely on from the Neo-classical style of the
preceding years

5. • A new interpretation of Greek style with more emphasis on
classical form
• Low ceilings, plaster walls painted deep colours or papered
with small repeat patterns, stars, small wreaths
• Fabric sometimes used to create tented rooms
• Painted finishes in vogue simulating marble and wood
graining
REGENCY STYLE

6. Regency Furniture And Fabrics
• Elegant furniture, especially chairs
• Sabre legs, brass inlay, penwork
• Couches with scroll ends
• Greek and Egyptian influences
• Damask, striped silks, glazed fabric, taffetas, stripes.

7. Chairs
Couch

8. Game table Dining Table and Chairs

9. Colours
• Powerful colours often used with tints of their
complimentaries
• Red is very fashionable
CrimsonSulphur Yellow Deep Green Royal Blue

10. • Carpet colours were chosen to harmonise with the walls, the
curtain fabrics were paler than the walls, upholstery was co-
ordinated with the curtain fabric, and furniture paintwork
was chosen to match the background colour of the
wallpaper or the walls themselves
• Green was popular for drawing rooms and libraries, and was
also used for wood and ironwork, screens and blinds.
Colours

11. Library

12. Windows
• Elaborate curtain treatments
• Swag tails with fringes, cords and tassels

14. Lighting
• Improved by newly invented oil lamps
• Candelabras, chandeliers and torcheres in use
Candelabra Chandelier Torcheres

15. Interior