Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Identify different styles and periods of furniture from the past. For example, students would be able to create a resource book categorizing by style, pictures of historic furniture
• Identify the relationships of concurrent periods in France, England and comparative timeline of style.
• Use the following criteria to analyze how and why furniture took the form that it did in each historic period covered in the class:
• Methods of construction
• Materials used
• Characteristics of furniture
• Motifs used
• Innovations developed
• Significant historic or political events
• Significant cultural, social, religious, geographic, or architectural influences on furniture design and construction
• People that had significant influence on the design and development of historic furniture styles
• Function of furniture
• For example, students would be able to design a review chart that organizes and simplifies information about each style period into the above categories.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of vocabulary related to furniture anatomy, type, design and construction