Style is a key element of proportion and scale. You can juxtapose a small oak stool to a huge oak dining table; because they’re both the same Style, they are compatible. If all your furniture is wicker, you can combine large-and small-scale pieces in a room and they will be compatible. The basic style or likeness of furniture binds them together harmoniously. There are many examples where style determines how furniture and objects relate to each other.
The basic style or likeness of furniture binds them together harmoniously. {Photo Architectural Design}
If you have a collection of oriental lacquer furniture—perhaps a nest of tables, including a large coffee table and small oriental prayer or tea tables—the curved Eastern design of the leg and the lacquer finish group them together. Even if the pieces are different sizes and have contrasting proportions, they are of the same family and relate well to one another.
The basic style or likeness of furniture binds them together harmoniously.
French Provincial furniture shares basic design elements that tie the pieces together regardless of scale. They aren’t fussy, and they all have similar “personalities.” You recognize this style by the delicacy of the shapes, the curves in the apron, often carved, and the graceful lines of the legs. The tabletops are often shaped. Like nature herself, French Provincial has no straight lines.
Rooms are more interesting when there is a wide range of scale, the but the pieces must be orchestrated under the strict discipline of similarities or style.
Chairs from the Louis XVI period, from large bergères to open-arm and side chairs, are well suited to one another because they both have an upholstered back and seat (usually with a loose, overstuffed cushion) on a carved wood frame. Repetition of shape can be just as important as scale when grouping furniture.
Bergere chairs are a French tradition, defined by an upholstered back and seat (usually with a loose, overstuffed cushion) on a carved wood frame. Their “bones” are curvey, which makes them a nice compliment to more straight-lined pieces.
You can cover a variety of different-scaled pieces of furniture in one patterned fabric, and they will unite in harmony, much as members of a sports team unite by wearing the same uniform.
Repeating colors and patterns is one of the easiest and most effective ways to unify your home.
Recently I saw a next of three tables, each one a different shape and size, that held together because they were all the same wood. Though the designs were not identical, they were compatible, with each tabletop having openwork.
The same kind of wood unites unlike pieces.
A collection of porcelain vases in a variety of shapes and sizes creates a harmonious grouping because they are of the same material.
{via Front Gate}
If you have some painted Swedish furniture, whether huge cupboards or small writing tables, your eye sees that the pieces relate well to each other. Rooms are more interesting when there is a wide range of scale, the but the pieces must be orchestrated under the strict discipline of similarities or style.
The beauty of the paler look is that it can be very cottagey or very sophisticated.
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