Floral Design History

Egyptians

2800 BCE

used flowers dor decorations, garland, wreaths, and temple offerings. Utilized simplistic design principles applied a particular pattern several times.

Renaissance

2800 BCE

create large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors more naturalistic look. Used flowers more for more than religious purposes

Greeks

600 BCE

used flowers for adornment continued the use of "horn of plenty" or cornucopia.

Byzantines

320 BCE

Brought together Greek and Roman. Influences begin to incorporate fruit with garland placed arrangement in baskets goblets or low containers.

Romans

28 BCE

Designs of Garland three and Krause where more elaborate than those of the Greek useless Grace for designs compared to the Greek basket and cornucopias.

Middle ages

476

The presence of flowers in art waned during this era. They only appeared in tapestries. This resulted in the creation of a line of cloths called millefleur.

Flemish

1400

Inspired by Flemish paintings. Flemish refers to people from the medieval country of Flander which now covers parts of Belgium, France, and Holland.

Baroque

1600

Created symmetrical designs then shifted to asymmetrical designs. asymmetrical sides or halves which are not the same but still balanced

French

1600

This period saw a distinct divide in the styles of floral arrangement. Delicate, arc-shaped designs dominated the Baroque period and Rococo. Simple, triangular shapes were the styles of times under King Louis XVI.

English Georgian Period

1714

Floral design in this era was usually comprised of a basic bunch of blossoms in a vase. Later on, they engaged in more elaborate designs. They even built vases for holding flowers at particular angles.

Early American

1720

Created arrangements for personal adornment and decorations around the home. Used any flower available and placed arrangements into household containers.

Colonial Williamsburg

1740

Placed grasses flowers and foliage into fan shape arrangements. Began to mix different floral bouquets together

American Federal

1780

Began to focus on the charm of an industrial flower strayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets

Victorian

1820

Used foliage and grasses to contrast textures placed flowers in very low containers upper-class show of wealth.

Modern

1910

Began current practices around 1910 also known as the contemporary florist's combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from the Europeans