Illustrated Architecture Dictionary - INDEX

Coffer(ing)(ed)

Coffer: a sunken panel in a ceiling, dome, soffit or vault

Caisson: an alternative name for a coffer

Found in Classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire

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Examples from Buffalo architecture

• Illustration above: Blessed Trinity RC Church
  
  
• Shea's Buffalo
  
  
• Williams-Pratt/LiRo
  
  
• Williams-Butler House
  
  
• Stephen M. Clement House/Red Cross Building
  
  
• Market Arcade Building
  
  
• Robert B. Adam House
  
  
• City Hall
  
  
• Forman-Cabana House
  
  
• St. Gerard's RC Church

Other examples:

• Pantheon, Rome, Italy
  
  
• Basilica di San Clemente (St. Clement), Rome, Italy
  
  
• Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major), Rome, Italy
  
  
• Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy

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