Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Salon Hang: Principal works at viewing height, tilted and packed tighter as they rise
- Type
- Set in Salon Hang's manner (Keep titles off the wall, using numbers and an entrance key plan), and let Wunderkammer's lettering (Handwritten slips numbered only, with explanation moved to a separate booklet) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Salon Hang's material (Gold frames on a deep colored wall, rank carried by frame width); bring in exactly one thing from Wunderkammer (Dark wood shelving, glass jars, specimen boxes, points of light in darkness).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Exhibition Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Roughly 1651 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Salon Hang Failing to check the upper works from the angle a visitor looks up produces a wall where reflection and foreshortening hide everything.
- Wunderkammer Copying only the density while losing each object's provenance makes the room look like antique stock, and wonder sinks into decoration.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Salon Hang (Layout, 1667–19th century) and its accent from Wunderkammer (Style, 16th–18th century). Structural cues: Stacked floor to ceiling; Crowded frames; Rank by position; The whole wall used. Accent cues, used sparingly: Accumulation to the ceiling; Nature and artifice mixed; Wonder before classification; A collector's universe. Composition: Principal works at viewing height, tilted and packed tighter as they rise. Type and lettering: Keep titles off the wall, using numbers and an entrance key plan. Let one material quality come from the second style: Dark wood shelving, glass jars, specimen boxes, points of light in darkness. Mood: Exhilaration, Luxury, Play, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Salon Hang 1667–19th century / Layout / Exhibition Design
The Paris Salon's way of stacking paintings frame to frame from floor to ceiling. Height announced a work's rank, and looking became competition and society. It is the exact opposite of the white cube, and its origin.
- Wunderkammer 16th–18th century / Style / Exhibition Design
The early modern collection room heaped natural and man-made things, specimens and art, into one space without distinction. Its floor-to-ceiling density aimed at a model of the world, making it the ancestor of the museum and the origin of an aesthetics of collecting.
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