House carving decoration as a field of interaction between the folk art and the art of Grand styles

The article is dedicated to the interaction between professional art and folk art in the city culture of the second half of the XIX – the beginning of the XX century. Choosing as an example the wooden houses preserved in West Siberian cities (Tyumen, Tobolsk, Tara, Tomsk, Barnaul, Omsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk) the author examines the use of decorative stylistic features of stone buildings in wooden architecture constructed as part of mass city development. It is accentuated that master craftsmen often turned for inspiration to Baroque, Art Nouveau and Russian Ropet-Gartman styles, transforming their decorative motives and creating carved compositions marked by originality and high quality of workmanship.