The Baroque and Rococo style were adjacent to one of another, but had two completely distinct sensibilities, one was controlling and provocative while the other articulated lightness and playfulness within elaborate decoration. Variance in the character of the two styles had deep effect on the decorative movements but yet the Baroque era overextended across 17th century, while the Rococo styles was short-lived in comparison (more or less from 1730s to the 1760s).
Both Baroque and rococo were trends that call for splendor, luxury design that worship power, authority of building owner, nobility. Also the origins are different, baroque started in Italy in the 1500’s as a separate and independent area of décor, while rococo style first appeared
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As designers we rely on basic principles and to keep an asymmetrical layout from appearing chaotic, we need to create balance and keep clutter to a minimum to create the sense of peace and order, but rococo was all about excess and “clutter” and there was not really any focal point, which I personally feel is crucial.
The Rococo conceptualized the interior design of a space in conjunction with function, form, and utility.
During the Rococo period, after it was so extensively executed in the Baroque, Classicism slowly disappeared. It included columns lining the wall set with frames and panels surrounding the moulding (referred to dado), embellishment of trompe l’oeil paintings and frescoes and tapestry, as well as chimneypieces for centrepiece was lavish. In contrast, Rococo was all about creating a sense of flow with ethereal and asymmetrical detail. The dados were lower and less used, the angle between wall and ceiling vanished by plaster covers in the corners. Rococo ceiling and wall surfaces, favoured shallow relief and depressed or semi-circular arches. Decoration was asymmetrically styled, yet unified, with curving and wistful s-scrolls and wave like lines. It was all about dreams and fantasy. Stucco and carvings included shapes and images of natural forms like flowers, shells, bats’ wings etc. Also