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.