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Floral Design History

  • Egyptians
    2800 BCE

    Egyptians

    used flowers dor decorations, garland, wreaths, and temple offerings. Utilized simplistic design principles applied a particular pattern several times.
  • Renaissance
    2800 BCE

    Renaissance

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

    Greeks

    used flowers for adornment continued the use of "horn of plenty" or cornucopia.
  • Byzantines
    320 BCE

    Byzantines

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

    Romans

    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

    Middle ages

    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

    Flemish

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

    Baroque

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

    French

    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

    English Georgian Period

    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

    Early American

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

    Colonial Williamsburg

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

    American Federal

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

    Victorian

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

    Modern

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