Gothic - the crown of medieval style graceful, majestic, mysterious and dark. This style of architecture meant avoiding cumbersome forms to gloomy graceful and easy to structures skyrocketing in all their grandeur and monumentality.
Classics of Gothic architecture are considered to Notre Dame and Saint-Denis. Arched frames of buildings, soaring into the sky narrow tower, carved facade elements, glow of stained glass, mosaic tiled, plenty of bright parts, forged candlesticks, fine work, wall paintings, prickly needle spiers, carpets and tapestries - all characteristic features of this style. Also, a special role in this style was paid to lighting. Stained glass, game of light and glass create a certain atmosphere.
Color range
The Gothic style are important not only used color (color of natural gold and metal, ruby red, ocher, blue, black, red, green, purple), and natural materials (wood, stone and marble) and stylistic unity and compatibility with the design of the space, the harmony of modern and ancient objects. We can say that the colors of the cold, dark, bleak.
As a rule, modern gothic style found in the majority of cases in private homes and restaurants. The grandeur and scale act indirectly, that is by the ratio of parts, frames, shapes and volumes. Create an elegant atmosphere is obtained by the use of traditional elements with lighting and stained glass.
Neo-gothic in the interior - it's panoramic windows, huge windows, decoration of windows and doorways, fireplaces masonry dominating verticality, multicolored stained glass, artificially aged furniture and pointed shapes.
Materials for reconstruction of the Gothic style
For registration of the walls used a wooden panel. The stone walls are usually painted with water colors.
A peculiar element of the decoration of the Gothic room is the fireplace. Often his cap rested on a ceiling, and decorated with shelves on which were placed household items.
As the material used colored wood (juniper, larch, spruce, walnut, oak). It is also widely used bone and stone, handicraft glass products, ceramics, metal products, natural rough fabric, etc. The metal - a material that is particularly well with the Gothic.
Furniture Gothic
Church utensils by ivory, wood, gold-plated silver, and all the furniture is repeated in miniature the composition of decorative architectural details. Almost all elements of furniture in the early Gothic church had origin. Objects made of wood, often look quite unattractive. However, on the beds and cabinets are often to be found various architectural elements of the church and fortified castles. Somewhat later, this effect was also affected ornamentation: from that time imposed a fine carpentry skills ornamentation, which was in sharp contrast with the texture of wood.
In general, the furniture of the Gothic style is quite simple. For example, coffer coffers is used in a time instead lezhanok; large, heavy cabinets with carvings that are repeated motifs of windows; all kinds of shelves and screens. Works of art in the Gothic style considered the chair on the podium, decorate with small twisted columns at the corners with a canopy that protects against drafts.
In shaping a clumsy and heavy furniture is dominated by some up in the tree architecture of the church. Typical furniture products: buffets on high legs; bivalve tall cabinets with 4, 6 or 9 panels.
Accessories and decorations Gothic
Specific elements are pointed arches, delicate ornaments, complex forms arch, columns, windows of a convex glass, especially without curtains. In order to decorate the room, very rarely used the picture. At the same time, there are unique engravings on wood, as well as an amazing portrait oil painting. Sculpture and painting expressive and expressive.
Decorated Gothic often has tiled mosaic; normally the chests covered with leather; usually used rich fittings (bronze, iron, steel). Figured stucco gilded and signs.
A certain "effect castle" will create framed by stone window frames and doors. Distributed reception trompe l'oeil - in this case, part of the wall reveals the "old" rocky brickwork.
The main elements are considered ornaments Gothic flora (maple leaves or grape), geometric arches. In the past, in the home use ceramic or copper utensils. All vessels carried out of dark glass, often with graceful hands and elongated necks.
Pure play gothic nowadays quite problematic, but some elements of the Gothic is widely used in interior design, not only private houses, but also apartments.
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