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## History of Art and Interior Design ### Walls - Paneling that reach from floor to ceiling - Intarsia in decorations - Cartouche ### Windows and Doors - Square headed windows were usual - Doors set in deep reveals ### Fireplace - Strong focal points of a room - Highly ornamented with sculptural rel...

## History of Art and Interior Design ### Walls - Paneling that reach from floor to ceiling - Intarsia in decorations - Cartouche ### Windows and Doors - Square headed windows were usual - Doors set in deep reveals ### Fireplace - Strong focal points of a room - Highly ornamented with sculptural reliefs. - The mantel was the most decorative feature in the room. ### Ceilings - Flat ceilings with exposed beams and girders ### Stairways - Spiral, straight, and dogleg flights ### Furniture Elements - Chairs had thronelike backs, straight arms - Chairs had turned, spiral or baluster legs with bun or Flemish scroll feet. - Motifs: olive, laurel, or acanthus leaves, foliated scrolls, rosettes, cartouche, medallions, shells, chimera, griffins, caryatids, grotesques, gadrooning. - Furniture joints were concealed. ### Furniture Types - Stool/Tabouret - Escabelle ### Other - Caquetoire: From caqueter ("to chat"), woman’s chair had trapezoidal form standing on four legs. - Armoire: Italian form of double cabinet for linen or clothes. - Commode: Chest of drawers