# Eastlake (イーストレイク様式)

> 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.

- IndexStyle No.528 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/eastlake-style
- Kind: Style · Family: Furniture and Interiors · Era: 19th century–
- Mood: Nostalgia, Play, Technique
- What this family collects: Undecorated furniture arrived twice for unrelated reasons, once out of religious discipline and once out of an industrial process, and the results look remarkably alike.

## Defining characteristics

- 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

## 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

## Composition recipe

- Typography & lettering: Cut or raise signage lettering to the same depth as the woodwork, because thin faces lose against the ornament.
- Layout & structure: Leave no large blank plane, and score horizontals and verticals with columns, spindles and brackets at even spacing.
- Material & texture: Restrict every form to what a lathe and a scroll saw can make, combining turned spindles, circular perforations and curved supports.

## Colour

Read off the reference works below, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.

- Ground: #E5D6B8
- The colour it is remembered by: #8C4A2F
- Text and outlines: #3E5B4A

## What to avoid

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.

## Application checklist

Work through this before calling a piece an application of this style.

- [ ] Visible in the piece: Columns shaped like thickened table legs
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Curved brackets repeating at even intervals under eaves and porch roofs
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Lathe-turned spindles filling railings and the head of a porch
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Knobs pierced with circular perforations set where members meet
- [ ] The layout follows: Leave no large blank plane, and score horizontals and verticals with columns, spindles and brackets at even spacing.
- [ ] The lettering follows: Cut or raise signage lettering to the same depth as the woodwork, because thin faces lose against the ornament.
- [ ] The material and surface follow: Restrict every form to what a lathe and a scroll saw can make, combining turned spindles, circular perforations and curved supports.
- [ ] The colour relation holds: #E5D6B8 as ground, #8C4A2F carrying the style, #3E5B4A for text and outlines
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Victorian Ornament (ヴィクトリアン装飾)** — Builds a thickly layered system of ornament from many revival styles and the riches of industrial printing. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/victorian-ornament
- **Arts and Crafts (アーツ・アンド・クラフツ)** — Returns material and handwork to the center of design, joining every detail of daily life under one conviction. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/arts-and-crafts

## Compose it with something else

The dictionary can put this entry in a structural role and another in an accent role, and report where the two fight: https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=eastlake-style+victorian-ornament

## Further study

- how Eastlake's furniture designs were reread in the United States
- the route by which turned members were mass produced and passed from furniture to buildings
- where the Getty places Eastlake among the modern decorative arts styles of North America

## Reference works

- Eastlake-style armchair, Missouri History Museum — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American%20Eastlake%20Style%20Armchair%20-%20DPLA%20-%2082f2d309b5eea66597b93c6363ee3307%20(page%201).jpg
- Porch woodwork of the Jane Heath House, Buffalo — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20160228%20-%2025%20-%20malaise%20printanier.jpg
- Bradford House, San Rafael, California — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford%20House%20333%20G%20St%20San%20Rafael%20CA%203-21-2010%203-15-00%20PM.JPG

## Source of record

- Getty Research Institute — Art & Architecture Thesaurus: Eastlake (300018222) — https://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300018222

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/eastlake-style
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/eastlake-style/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compare_styles, compose_styles, find_related_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)