These terms apply to Antiques, Antique Furniture,
Auctions, Glass, and Other Assorted Collectibles
Iconography – Knowledge and use of symbolic pictorial representations in art, often the meanings vary when interpreted by others.
Impasto – Italian term for very thickly applied paint onto the canvas resulting in obvious brushstrokes.
Inlay – A decorative treatment set into the surface of the wood that uses wood or other materials to form bands of color (string) pictorial images (marquetry) or geometric shapes (parquetry). The material could consist of exotic woods, metal, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, ivory or other materials.
Intaglio – An illustration or design cut into a surface.
Intarsia – A decorative technique, similar to inlay, of sinking a design scene across an entire solid wood surface.
International Style – Modern furniture style developed in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s most notably Germany’s Bauhaus, with such artisans as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. International Style hallmarks are an absence of decoration and simple lines utilizing industrial production and materials, such as chrome and glass, to impart a divergence from early furniture traditions.
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