Friday, March 19, 2010

Antique Style interiors

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Style recalls ancient Greece, Rome. Antique style we all know the magnificent monuments of ancient Greece and Rome, monuments of architecture, sculpture. So far, they evoke in us the admiration of his inimitable and complete beauty. Colosseum, triumphal arches, columns, cylindrical vaults, beautiful sculptures of noble people, gods, goddesses, amazing art painting attracted its harmony and for many are the standard to be emulated.Antique Style interiors

Separation of utilitarian function and beauty. Domestic premises were decorated with mural paintings and facings. The floors were mostly mosaic, later - covered with carpets. Painted caisson ceiling complemented by relief images, large vases with designs tapagrami (small terracotta figurines).

Antique Style interiors

The original Greek furniture has not survived, but preserved reliefs and drawings on the vases. Forms chairs are simple and served as models for subsequent stylistic forms. The three main forms: the bench, ordinary and ceremonial (toropoobraznye) chairs.

Along with simple desktops were lower trapezius and dining tables on three legs (in the form of animal legs). Materials: expensive wood and bronze.Antique Style interiorsAntique Style interiors

In the home environment were also small chests. In the III century BC Greece appeared furniture made of bronze, decorated with gold, silver, upholstered. For the Greek ornamentation typical of both figured and floral and geometric and architectural elements. Characteristic ornament - spiral and wavy line. In the architecture used by Doric columns, Ionic and kofinfskogo orders, as well as sculptural portraits of famous people, reliefs and bas-reliefs on stone slabs.

Colors: ivory, shades of gold, clear yellow, blue and green, shades of red (terracotta), black.

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