Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ....................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
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Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Pilaster
pi LAS ter, PIE last er
Architecture
A shallow rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming with one of the ordersUsed to frame doorways, fireplaces, etc.
Pilasters to sides of door (may have pediment) found in Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Beaux Arts Classical styles
Banded pilaster: Horizontal subdivisions in a shallow rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall
Furniture
Architecturally, a flat column on which the details and proportions of a classical order are reproduced. The pilaster is then attached to front of, for instance, a leg; or incorporated in the design of a cupboard panel particularly in the designs of the ate sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Examples from Buffalo architecture:
- Illustration above: Albright-Knox Art Gallery Interior
- 33 Chapin Pkwy
- Buffalo Savings Bank Corinthian
- Knox House Interior
- Hamburg Grange Building, Hamburg, N.Y. Exterior sheet metal
- Spaulding Building Exterior, banded
- Niagara Share Building
- Hull House Exterior, wooden Tuscan
- 77 Gates Circle Exterior
- Buffalo Catholic Institute Public Library / Church of Scientology Buffalo Banded
- Furniture: Federal corner cupboard - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
Other examples:
- Amherst Humphrey House at the Genesee Country Village, & Museum Exterior, wooden
- Palais Royal, Paris, France
