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The period of the 1700s and on into the early 1800s. is often called
the Golden Century because it was during this period that furniture
design became a popular art, expressing the changing moods of
the people , and the exuberant spirit of the times.

Thus in its gradual evolution from periods of earliest civilization,
the history of furniture parallels the progress of culture.

YEAR

FRANCE

ITALY

USA

UK

16th Century

Francois I
Renaissance

Cinquecento
Renaissance

Early Colonial

Tudor-Gothic
Elizabethan

17th Century

Loius XIII
Loius XIV

Baroque

Early Colonial

Jacobean
Carolean
Restoration
William , Mary

18th Century

Louis XIV
Regence
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Directoire

Baroque
Rococo
Venetian

William, Mary
Queen Anne
Georgian
Chippendale
Fedral

William III
Queen Anne
George I
George II
George III
Chippendale
Hepplewhite
Sheraton

19th Century

Empire
Restauration
Louis XVIII
Charles X
Louis Philippe
2nd Empire
Napoleon III

Empire
Gusto Floreale
Stile Liberty

Empire

Late Georgian
Regency
William IV
Victorian
Gothic revival
Arts , Crafts
Arts Nouveau


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