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Tone & intent · Emotion

Luxurious & glamorous

Wealth, refinement, glamour.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under tone & intent: what should the work make people feel or do?

styles make it: 55
as a defining choice: 5
as a usual one: 23
now and then: 27
avoid it: 66

Styles defined by it 5

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Persian Miniature (Ilkhanid, Timurid and Safavid Book Painting)c. 1300–1700 · Middle East & North Africa, South AsiaThe court book painting of Iran and Timurid Herat, formed in Mongol Tabriz from Islamic, Byzantine and Chinese models: from Rashid al-Din's Jamiʿ al-tawarikh (1314) and the Great Mongol Shahnama to Behzad's Herat and the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, ending in the album pages of Safavid Isfahan.
Rinpa & Saga-bon1600–present · East AsiaA Kyoto school of decorative design that revived the poetry and court painting of the Heian period, begun around 1600 by the calligrapher Hon'ami Kōetsu and the painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu and carried on less by teaching than by admiration across generations: Ogata Kōrin, Sakai Hōitsu, Kamisaka Sekka.
Cuban Tobacco Lithography (Habilitaciones & Marquillas)1845–present · Latin America & CaribbeanThe chromolithographed dress of Havana tobacco.
Art Deco1910–1939 · Western Europe, North America, Global / networkedThe glamorous modern style named after the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, which disciplined ornament into geometry: sunbursts, chevrons, stepped forms and sleek stylised figures rendered in lacquer-smooth colour with metallic accents.
Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)2005–present · Latin America & CaribbeanThe facades and party halls of El Alto, Bolivia, begun by the Aymara builder-architect Freddy Mamani in 2005 for a new Aymara merchant class.

Styles that often use it 23

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 27

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Gradientsin 30 of 55
Jewel & metallicin 23 of 55
Floral & vegetalin 28 of 55
Romantic & sensualin 24 of 55
Painterly illustrationin 31 of 55
Illusion of depthin 24 of 55

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in tone & intent