Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ............... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Capital
ArchitectureThe head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster
Latin: "caput" = headFound in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire
FurnitureThe column and capital have been used as decoration and for functional supports on many styles of furniture.
Examples from Buffalo architecture:
- Illustration above - Ionic capital: 135 Linwood Avenue
- Doric capital:
- Ionic capital:
- Corinthian capital:
- Williams-Butler House
- Buffalo Savings Bank
- James McNulty Monument
- Edward Gaskin House, 41 Chapin Pkwy
- The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
- Wilcox Mansion / TR Inaugural Site
- Tuscan capital:
- Composite capital:
- Cushion capital:
- Eclectic capital:
- Queen Anne style capital:
- Eastlake cast iron:
- Commercial Richardsonian Romanesque cast iron:
Other examples:
- Egyptian palm capital - British Museum, London, England
- St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York City 5 examples of Romanesque Revival capitals
- Pedlar People Sheetmetal Building Material Catalog: Capitals, Canada
- Furniture: Sheraton worktable
