Profile (ornamentation)
In the field of ornamentation, the term profile or profiling refers to the rounding and recessing of an originally angular workpiece or an entire component.
In the background there can be mainly practical functions (e.g. handrails or roof tiles) or decorative reasons (e.g. tracery, vaulted ribs, consoles) - sometimes practical and decorative reasons mix (e.g. the profiling of Cornices).
Decorative profiles were traditionally mainly made from wood by carpenters and carpenters and from mortar and natural stone by plasterers and stonemasons .
Profiles made of plastic and metal mainly serve more functional than decorative purposes and are mostly produced industrially by extrusion , casting or, in the case of sheet metal ( beads ), by rolling , bending, pressing or folding ; Metal profiles are seldom formed by forging or hammering .
Common examples
Most of the examples given below are also carried out without a profile:
Profiling in the roof area
- profiled roof tiles
- profiled rafter head
Profiling in facade and interior design
- Window and door reveals and bezels
- console
- Cornices
- Pilaster strips
- Vault ribs
- Archivolts
- Tracery
Wood profiles in interior fittings and furniture construction
- Handrail and baluster of a banister
- Balustrade
- profiled frame or frame
- profiled baseboards and other trim afford
- Cornices in the upper wall areas as stucco replacement or as upper finish of cabinets
photos
Unprofiled vault ribs ( San Baudelio de Berlanga , 12th century)
Profiled vault ribs ( Lincoln Cathedral , Chapter House , 13th century)
Unprofiled archivolts ( St-Laurent du Mont , Argelès-sur-Mer , 11th century)
Profiled archivolts ( Freiberg Cathedral 13th century)
Wooden ceiling with a profiled support beam made of fir wood in Selva Castle
