period style
Era-specific design approach
Period style refers to the distinctive artistic characteristics of a particular historical era.
In architecture, furniture, and decorative arts, it describes design elements authentic to or imitative of a specific time: The house was decorated in Georgian period style.
Period style can mean genuine antiques or faithful reproductions that capture an era's aesthetic: period-style furniture, a period-style renovation.
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- revivalismMovement rekindling religious passion
- NeoclassicismRevival of ancient aesthetics
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
craftsmanship · historicism · decorative arts · Modernism · Renaissance · adaptive reuse · Rococo · ornamentation · crown molding · Palladian · stained glass · damask · arabesque · retrofuturism · restoration · gilding · geometric patterns · reinterpretation
period styleminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
minimalist design · industrial style · utilitarian design · mid-century modern · Scandinavian design