Architectural Styles
Chinoiserie
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1650-1780
- fanciful interpretations of Chinese and East Asian motifs
- lacquered finish artistic traditions
- Asymmetrical designs
- lacquered finishes,
- colourful palettes
- natural elements, such as landscapes or flora
- Western Europe
- USA
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Palaces
- Manors
- garden pavilions
- public buildings
- decorative arts
- Pagoda at Kew Gardens London
- Brighton Pavilion
- Chinese House at Sanssouci Potsdam
- The Temple of Apollo (Chinoiserie Pavilion) at Stowe House
- Versailles, Trianon de Porcelaine
- Coaching inns / posting houses
- Urban inns / hostelries
- Taverns and alehouses with lodging
- Boarding houses / furnished lodgings
- Grand hotels
- early boutique “hotel” townhouses (elite urban lodging)
- Palaces, villas, and country houses (elite hospitality)
- Spa-town lodging
- Monastery / convent guest lodging
- Royal Pavilion, Brighton (England) – After being sold by Queen Victoria in 1850, parts of the Pavilion were leased and operated as a hotel/visitor accommodation in the later 19th century, before becoming a civic/heritage site
- The Chinese House (Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany)
- Chinoiserie rooms in the Hôtel de Soubise (Paris)
- Chinoiserie suites in luxury heritage hotels – Palazzo XX in Venice, Vienna’s Ringstrasse palazzi
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
Chinoiserie Room at the Savoy Hotel London;