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Revolution to form a ‘Round Table’ in order to establish a means of
returning to hand-crafted products.
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Decorative periods
are named for eras on the reigns of monarchs.
Decorative styles
are named for furniture and interior designers.
DECORATIVE PERIODS
Tudor Period
1485 - 1603
Elizabethan Period
1558 - 1603
Louis XIV Period
1643 - 1715
Jacobean Period
1603 - 1685
Stuart Period
1603 - 1714
Cromwellian Period
1649 - 1660
Carolean Period
1660 - 1685
William & Mary Period
1689 - 1702
Queen Anne Period
1702 - 1714
Georgian Period
1714 - 1820
Louis XV Period
1723 - 1774
Regency Period
1800 - 1830
Empire Period
1804 - 1815
Victorian Period
1830 - 1901
Edwardian Period
1901 - 1910
DECORATIVE STYLES
Inigo Jones 1572 - 1652
André-Charles Boulle 1642 - 1732
Grinling Gibbons
1648 - 1726
William Kent 1684 - 1748
Thomas Chippendale 1715 - 1762
A. Hepplewhite
1727 - 1788
Adam Period
1762 - 1794
Angelica Kaufmann
1741 - 1807
Thomas Sheraton
1781 - 1806
Louis XVI
1774 - 1793
T. Shearer
Circa 1780
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