Eastlake vs Victorian Ornament
イーストレイク様式 / ヴィクトリアン装飾
Eastlake comes from Furniture and Interiors and Victorian Ornament from Ornament. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Eastlake
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Eastlake is the name given to a decorative and architectural style in nineteenth century America, tied to the furniture designs of Charles Locke Eastlake. Its architecture borrows the vocabulary of furniture directly, with columns that resemble table legs, curved brackets, spindles, and knobs of various shapes made of circular perforations.
Victorian Ornament
Builds a thickly layered system of ornament from many revival styles and the riches of industrial printing.
| Eastlake | Victorian Ornament | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 19th century– | 1837–1901 |
| Family | Furniture and Interiors | Ornament |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Columns shaped like thickened table legs / Curved brackets repeating at even intervals under eaves and porch roofs / Lathe-turned spindles filling railings and the head of a porch / Knobs pierced with circular perforations set where members meet | Dense borders / Symmetry / Botanical pattern / Chromolithography |
| Best used for | Unifying a house exterior and its fittings through one vocabulary of furniture parts · Building sets or backgrounds that reconstruct a nineteenth century American street | Giving packages and invitations the dignity of a collection · Making the act of studying detail the value itself |
| Type | Cut or raise signage lettering to the same depth as the woodwork, because thin faces lose against the ornament. | Ornamented serifs and small capitals |
| Composition | Leave no large blank plane, and score horizontals and verticals with columns, spindles and brackets at even spacing. | Fix a central axis; nest frames, headings and text |
| Material | Restrict every form to what a lathe and a scroll saw can make, combining turned spindles, circular perforations and curved supports. | Deep red, green, gold, cream; repeat hairlines in steps |
| Caution | Scaling furniture parts up to building size removes the hand-held proportion they were derived from, and the ornament starts to look like models glued onto a wall. | Never mix other cultures' patterns as anonymous ornament. Research origins; quote precisely. |