Excerpt from Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior DecorationModern Italian Renaissance fireplace and Over-mantel 8 Doorways and pilaster detail, Italian Renaissance 9 Two Louis XIII chairs 22 A Gothic chair of the fifteenth century. 23 A Louis XIV chair 82 Louis XIV inlaid desk-table 33 Louis XIV chair with underbracing 33 Regency paneling, Metropolitan Museum of Art 40 A modern room showing Louis XV console tables 41 A modern room in the white and gold paneling of Louis 44 Louis XV bergere 45 Louis XVI panel from Versailles 48 Marie Antoinette's boudoir 49 Louis XVI bench. 50 Louis XVI chair from Fontainebleau 51 Bed of Josephine 54 American Empire sofa 55 English carved oak chest 60 Apostles' Bed of the Tudor period 61 Grinling Gibbons' carving 64 Original Jacobean settle 65 Reproductions of Jacobean chairs 65 Reproductions of the Queen Anne period 72 Reproduction of a William and Mary walnut chair 73 Ribbon-back and Gothic type of Chippendale chairs 78.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.