Art and Antique Information: Glossary of terms and definitions
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- Fauteuil: Originally, a French, upholstered armchair, with open sides (see also bèrgère).
- Face Veneer: Top layer of finished veneer.
- Fan Carving: A half-round carving composed of equally segmented radiating lines in a fan-shaped 'sunray' pattern.
- Fancy Faces: An exotic composition of veneers on doors, drawers, tops and prominent panels.
- Fauteuil: An open-sided upholstered French armchair.
- Faux: A technique used to simulate another. Examples include: gilding creates a faux gold; a trompe l'oeil painted surface may create faux marble.
- Federal Style: American furniture design period following the American Revolution, from 1785 to 1835. The Federal style began by emulating and often unifying the neo-classic influences of English masters such as Sheraton, Adam and Hepplewhite; and then later influenced by France. A most notable Federal craftsman is Duncan Phyfe. This American style of furniture is refined and rectilinear using delicate, straight lines, often with inlay banding and contrasting veneers. Casegoods commonly used brass-ring door and drawer pulls incorporating brass feet with casters on tapered legs.
- Fiddle-back: A fiddle or violin shaped back splat often in Queen Anne chairs. Also a wood pattern of wavy-graining.
- Fielded panel: Solid wood panel with beveled or molded outer edges and a raised, flat center common in cabinets and doors.
- Figure: The unique natural graining designs found in veneers and woods.
- Filling: Furniture finishing step to fill the wood's pores with a material resulting in a smoother, flatter, and more reflective surface when finished.
- Finial: A carved, turned or shaped decorative terminal detail used to vertically ornament the top end of a post, broken pediment opening, lamp top etc. Vertical motifs include flames, urns, pineapples and others.
- Finishing: Multi-step process of applying coats of materials like stain, paint, lacquer, and oils with frequent sanding and polishing between layers. Finishing protects wood from the effects of variable humidity (checking) and brings out it's natural beauty.
- Flame: Spiral carving that resembling a flame upon an urn-shaped finial.
- Fluting: Consecutive series of semi-circular perpendicular ornamental channels (flutes) cut into columns, posts, panels,leg etc. terminating before the end. focal pointIn two-dimensional images, the center of interest visually and/or subject-wise; tends to be used more in traditional, representational art than in modern and contemporary art, where the picture surface tends to have more of an overall importance, rather than one important area.
- Foot: see also:
- claw and ball, dutch foot, drake foot, slipper foot, ogee foot, pad foot, Block Foot, Bun Foot..
- foreshortening: Single point perspective applied on an object in an image for a dramatic effect.
- Four Poster: A bed with posts at the four corners tall enough to support a canopy or curtain.
- Fourway matching: A large pattern of veneering created by a combination of book and end matching veneers.
- Frames: Wood used as a framework for upholstered pieces like chairs and sofas. Frame wood characteristics are strong, shock resistant, and stable: no shrink, swell, twist, or warp. Popular choices are: Ash, birch, oak, gumwood and poplar.
- French Provincial: Rustic adaptations of formal French 17th and 18th century furnishings, especially the Louis XIV and Louis XV styles.
- fresco:Technique of painting with water based paint on wet plaster used during the 14th - 16th centuries before the Renaissance refined oil paint as a more easily managed medium.
- Fretwork: Open lattice or pierced wood carved tracery with an oriental influence, used as an element in Chippendale style furnishings.
- Frieze: A broad, ornamented, horizontal band in a cornice or under a case top. Sculptured architectural band between the architrave and the cornice.
- frottage: (pronounced fro-taj) French term, meaning a technique to rub onto paper placed over a textured surface and 'pick up' that pattern.
- Fruitwood: General term for fruit bearing woods such as apple, cherry and pear.
- Futon: Japanese style mattress of cotton batting placed on the floor or a raised, folding wooden frame.
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