Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ...................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ...................... Illustrated
FURNITURE Glossary
Column
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Architecture
A supporting pillar consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a capitalLatin: "columna" - a post
Column vs. post: post lacks the essential qualities of a column: base, shaft and capital
Columns are found in virtually all styles of architecture.
In cemeteries, a broken column represents life cut off
Materials:
- wood
- granite
- limestone
- marble
- brick covered with stucco or or plaster
- cast iron
- sheet metal
- pressed tin capitals
- fiberglass
- cast aluminum
Shafts:
- fluted (Greek)
- round (Roman),
- reeded (e.g., Art Deco)
- square (often paneled)
- banded (Roman)
- twisted (Baroque)
Styles of Classical columns:
- Doric (although Doric columns have no base)
- Ionic
- Corinthian
- Composite
- Tuscan
Classical two-story columns are found in Beaux Arts Classical, Greek Revival, Neoclassical styles
Classical one-story columns are found in Italianate, Beaux Arts Classical, Greek Revival, Neoclassical Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Italian Renaissance Revival styles
See also: Vitruvius Pollio on Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Orders (The Greeks were first to declare that architecture was based on the proportions and form of the human body.)
See also: Banded column ....Caryatid ....... Clustered column ...........Colonnade........ Engaged column ........ Egyptian columns ........ Hypostyle ...... Loggia ...... Peristyle..... ... Pilaster ....... Portico .......Twisted column
FurnitureAn upright member which is taller than it is thick, and serves as a support for something resting on its top.
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above - Doric column: Birge Memorial
- Illustration above - Furniture: Empire Pier table (Console table) - Athenaeum, Philadelphia
- Banded column: Ellicott Square Building
- Ionic column: Albert F. Laub Mausoleum
- Corinthian column: Edward H. Butler Mausoleum
- Tuscan column: Knox House
- Eastlake cast iron: The Granite Works, 844 Main Street
- Romanesque column: St. Francis Xavier RC Church
- Romanesque twisted column: St. John the Evangelist RC Church
- Gothic column: St. Ann's RC Church
- Queen Anne column: Little House
- Cast iron Corinthian columns: Glenny/Dennis/Stanton Building
- Furniture: Empire mantel clock - Amherst Museum
Other examples:
- Greek Doric column sections - Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily
- Nasrid Arab columns: Comares Palace, Alhambra, Granada, Spain
