Renaissance of classic period.—Francis I, Henry II, and the Louis.—Architecture, mural decoration, tapestry, furniture, wrought metals, ormoulu, silks, velvets, porcelains.

[CHAPTER XIX] THE PERIODS OF THE THREE LOUIS

How to distinguish them.—Louis XIV.—Louis XV.—Louis XVI.—Outline.—Decoration.—Colouring.—Mural Decoration.—Tapestry.

[CHAPTER XX] CHARTS SHOWING HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF FURNITURE

French and English.

[CHAPTER XXI] THE MAHOGANY PERIOD

Chippendale.—Heppelwhite.—Sheraton.—The Adam Brothers.—Characteristics of these and the preceding English periods; Gothic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne.—William Morris.—Pre-Raphaelites.

[CHAPTER XXIII] THE COLONIAL PERIOD

Furniture.—Landscape paper.—The story of the evolution of wall decoration.