The document summarizes the history and characteristics of Victorian and modern furniture. Victorian furniture from 1830-1890 was ornate and cluttered with dark woods, heavy fabrics, and decorations incorporating Gothic, Rococo, and other styles. Modern furniture after the late 19th century rejected ornamentation in favor of clean lines, simplicity, mass production, and new materials like steel and plastic. Key modernist designers included Rietveld, Breuer, Albers, Le Corbusier, Gray, Mies van der Rohe, Aalto, Noguchi, and Eames.

1. Modern Furniture History

2.  The victorian period in furniture dates from approximately 1830- 1890.
 The victorian styles is a part of a Morden area.
 The most victorian furniture is a mixture of many other style including Gothic, Tudor,
Rococo, Elizabethan and Neoclassic with Gothic and Rococo being the most common.
 The victorian look was typically cluttered with dark furniture, heavy fabrics and accessoris.
 Victorian furniture is popular today, probably due to it’s accessibility more than the
aesthetics.
VICTORIAN FURNITURE

3. • Cluttered furniture
• Soft furnishings
• Ornate furniture with decorations
• Buttoned back chairs
• Carved wood
• Dust catching furniture
• Furniture became mass production
• Cumbersome furniture
• Balloon back chair and spoon back
• ladies easy chairs without arms as vastness of skirts
• Low arms scrolled at front in chairs
• colour like cherry used, deep brown and dark colours
• The furniture was feminine and delicate
• comefort is importent
Principles

4. WOOD:
o OAK
o Rosewood
o Mahogany
o Walnut
o Iron
o brocade furnishin`gs
o foam filled chairs
MATERIAL:

5. The chesterfield sofa
The smokers bow
Thonet chair St.George cabinet,william
morris

6. Oakwashstand

7. MORDEN
• Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th century through the present
that is influenced by modernism.
• There was an opposition to the decorative arts , which included Art Nouveau , Neoclassical ,
and Victorian styles.
• Dark or gilded carved wood and richly patterned fabrics from the gave way to the simplicity
and geometry of polished metal.
• With the machine aesthetic, modern furniture easily came to promote factory modules, which
emphasized the time-managing, efficient ideals of the period.
• Modernist design was able to strip down decorative elements and focus on the design of the
object in order to save time, money, material, and labour . The goal of modern design was to
capture timeless beauty in spare precision.

8. Principles of modern furniture
• Machine like Simplicity
• Form follows function
• Smoothness of surface
• Avoidance of ornamentation
• Avoidance of excessive decorations
• Less upholstery
• Lack of clutter
• Mass production of furniture as it became common for all
• Colour palette : Neutral , bold colours, primary colours
• Asymmetry
• Clean lined design
• Minimal use of texture
• Ergonomics consideration

9. Use of New Materials
• Steel
• Glass
• Plywood
• Thermoplastic
• Polyester
• Canvas
• Foam
• Leather
• Laminates
• Fiberglass
• Timber
• Polypropylene
• Nylon
• Acrylic

10. Famous Designers and products
Gerrit Rietveld's red-Blue Armchair, 1917 pine planks
• Height -35’’ lacquered wood
• Width-26’’
• Depth -33’’
• Colour pallate – neutral , primary
chrome plated tubular steel
Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair , 1925
Inspiration - chair in
the bent form of
a bicycle
handlebar
canvas seat
Josef Alber’s Bauhaus Nesting Side Tables , 1926
solid oak
Acrylic
layered
glass
colours: red,
yellow, and blue
steel

11. Le Corbusier , 1928
Inspiration : Egyptian lounge
Chaise lounge chair
Adjustable polished
trivalent chrome plated
(CR3) steel frame
Black enamel steel base
Ponyskin or cowskin
polyester padding
LC1 - Sling Chair , Basculant
polished chrome plated steel
Reclining
back
Ponyskin or cowskin leather
Tubular steel springs

12. tubular steel frame
fitted with plump
Cushions in
expanded
foam and
goose
feather
LC2 Grand confront armchair
Chrome plated steel
glass
LC7 The Swivel chair
LC6 Table
LC8 - Swivel Stool

13. Eileen Gray side
table , 1927
powder-
coated
tubular
steel in
black or
chrome-
plated
clear crystal glass
or grey smoked
glass
black lacquered metal
Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair , 1929
chrome-plated flat
stainless steel bars
to create ‘s’ shape
Inspiration :Egyptian
folding X stool
pig skin and foam filled
Alvar Aalto’s stool 6o, 1933
right angled joints in wood , vineer coatedinspiration - column

14. Noguchi coffee table , 1947
curved rosewood
heavy plate glass top
, 22mm
Sculptural wooden base
which is sturdy
Charles and Ray Eames , Eames Lounge
Chair,1956
Arne Jacobsen’s egg chair