History of Floral Design

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  • Period: 2800 BCE to 28

    egyptians

    from 2800 b.c to 28 b.c, they used flowers for decorations,garlands,wreaths and temple offerings, also utilized simplistic design principles.
  • Period: 1600 BCE to

    baroque

    created symmertrical designs, then shifted to asymmetrical designs
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1600 BCE

    renaissance

    created large, symmetrical arrangements with bright colors, used flowers for more than religious purposes, and introduced the christmas wreath
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1700 BCE

    flemish

    flourished from 1400 to 1700 and inspired by flemish paintings
  • Period: 600 BCE to 150 BCE

    greeks

    they used flowers for adornment and continued the use of wreaths and garlands, they also created the 'horn of plenty' or cornucopia
  • Period: 320 BCE to 600 BCE

    byzantines

    brought together greek and roman period influences and began to incorporate fruit within garlands, also placed arrangements in baskets, goblets or low containers
  • Period: 28 BCE to 325 BCE

    romans

    continued to use the same customs of the greek period and began the use of flowers for fragrant purposes
  • Period: to

    early american

    created arrangements for personal adornment and decorations around the home, and used any flower available and placed all arrangements into household containers
  • Period: to

    colonial williamsburg

    placed grasses, flowers and foliage into fan-shaped arrangements and began to mix differnt floral bouquets together
  • Period: to

    american federal

    began to focus on the charm of an individual flower and strayed away from large amounts of mixed floral bouquets and used fewer flowers in containers
  • Period: to

    victorian

    used foliage and grasses to contrast textures, placed floweres in very low containers, upper-class show of wealth
  • Period: to

    modern

    began current practices around 1910, also known as the contemporary florists and combined line elements from the japanese and mass designs from the europeans, marked the beginning of a container made specifically to hold flowers small bouquets