Page 4 - cn-The Art of Style Status STUDIO pres April 2024

The curated collection explores societal relationships in terms of social standing, influence through evolving fashion, expression

formulating aesthetics which then become seen and accepted as style.
From a sense of collective identity, style can create social inclusion or exclusion; Style is championed by individuals or movements,

as a an expression of rebellion or establishing a new identity, hence associative following a style statement of sophistication and

in cases intellectual prowess.

Style, can be formed by or conversely promote technological advancement in the use of materials, or architectural practices as
well as manufacturing methodology. Styles evolve, develop and can contradict or reference particular periods, equally a style can
integrate several styles or periods. A particular style can act as a symbolic sense of reassurance of the past and a association with

stability.

There have been prominent styles in architecture, interior design, and furnishing, exterior to landscaping, gardening and planting
that have prevailed. Styles, such as the French courts of Louis XV and Louis XVI, the Italian schools and movements, borne out

of these European aesthetics Baroque.
The medieval Gothic style latter adapted to the ‘Gothic revival’ and the reactionary movement of Art and Craft, in turn,
French ‘Art Nouveau’ followed by ‘Art Deco’ and onto Modernism and Post Modernism.

The collection of paintings depicting the estates held in trust by the National Trust and Blenheim Palace, centre around prominent

period styles and aesthetic movements of the time.