Mission Style
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Architecture

  • Mission Revival Style architecture
    Mission Revival Style architecture
    The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th century for a colonial style's revivalism and reinterpretation, which drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century Spanish missions in California....

  • Architecture of the California Missions
    Architecture of the California missions
    The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland...

  • Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture
    Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture
    The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was a United States architectural stylistic movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in California and Florida as a regional expression related to history, environment, and nostalgia...

  • The architecture of the Prairie School
    Prairie School
    Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.The works of the Prairie School architects are usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands,...

    , including Frank Lloyd Wright's
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...

  • American Craftsman
    American Craftsman
    The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...

  • Craftsman Furniture
    Craftsman Furniture
    "Craftsman Furniture" refers to the Arts and Crafts Movement style furniture of Gustav Stickley's 'Craftsman Workshops.'-History:Stickley began making American Craftsman furniture in 1900, though he did not change the name of his firm to the Craftsman Workshops until 1903. It was sometimes...


Furniture

  • Mission Style Furniture
    Mission Style Furniture
    Mission furniture is a style of furniture that originated in the late 19th Century. It traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church. The term mission furniture was first popularized by Joseph P...

  • The furniture and architecture of Gustav Stickley
    Gustav Stickley
    Gustav Stickley was a manufacturer of furniture and the leading proselytizer for the American Arts and Crafts movement, an extension of the British Arts and Crafts movement.-Biography:...

  • The furniture designed for the SF Swedenborgian Church
  • The furniture designed by Joseph P. McHugh, after the first Mission style chair designed for the SF Swedenborgian Church
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