t for a summer home 179

Hallway showing rugs 188

Hallway showing rugs 189

Colonial bed-room 189

Dining-room with paneled walls 196

Four post bed owned by Lafayette 197

Modern dining-room 204

Four post bed 205

Reproductions of Adam painted furniture 222

Three-chair Sheraton settee 223

Reproduction of a Sheraton wing-chair 223

Slat-backed chair 223

Group of chairs and pie-crust table 232

Groups of chairs 233

Reproduction of Jacobean buffet 236

Group of mirrors 237

Reproduction of William and Mary settee 240

Adaptation of Georgian ideas to William and Mary dressing table 240

Two Adam chairs 241

Jacobean day-bed 241

Reproductions of Chippendale table and Hepplewhite desk 244

Reproduction of Sheraton chest of drawers 245

Reproduction of William and Mary chest of drawers 245

A modern sun-room 246

Sheraton sofa 247

Hepplewhite chair and nest of tables 247

Chippendale wing-chair 247

Modern paneled living-room 248

Empire bed 248

Hancock desk, and fine old highboy 249

_Preface_

To try to write a history of furniture in a fairly short space is almost
as hard as the square peg and round hole problem. No matter how one
tries, it will not fit. One has to leave out so much of importance, so