| A modern dining-room | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| Italian Renaissance fireplace and overmantel, modern | 8 |
| Doorways and pilaster details, Italian Renaissance | 9 |
| Two Louis XIII chairs | 22 |
| A Gothic chair of the fifteenth century | 23 |
| A Louis XIV chair | 32 |
| Louis XIV inlaid desk-table | 33 |
| Louis XIV chair with underbracing | 33 |
| A modern French drawing-room | 40 |
| A drawing-room, old French furniture and tapestry | 41 |
| Early Louis XIV chair | 44 |
| Louis XV bergère | 44 |
| Louis XVI bench | 45 |
| Louis XVI from Fontainebleau | 50 |
| American Empire bed | 51 |
| An Apostles bed of the Tudor period | 60 |
| Adaptation of the style of William and Mary to dressing table | 61 |
| Reproduction of Charles II chair | 61 |
| Living-room with reproductions of different periods | 64 |
| Original Jacobean sofa | 65 |
| Reproductions of Charles II chairs | 65 |
| Reproductions of Queen Anne period | 72 |
| Reproduction of James II chair | 73 |
| Reproduction of William and Mary chair | 73 |
| Gothic and Ribbonback types of Chippendale chairs | 78 |
| Chippendale mantel mirror showing French influence | 79 |
| Chippendale fretwork tea-table | 79 |
| Chippendale china cupboard | 82 |
| Typical chairs of the eighteenth century | 83 |
| Chippendale and Hepplewhite sofas | 86 |
| Adam mirror, block-front chest of drawers, and Hepplewhite chair | 87 |
| Two Adam mantels | 92 |
| A group of old mirrors | 93 |
| Dining-room furnished with Hepplewhite furniture | 96 |
| Old Hepplewhite sideboard | 97 |
| Reproduction of Hepplewhite settee | 97 |
| Sheraton chest of drawers | 104 |
| Sheraton desk and sewing-table | 105 |
| Dining-room in simple country house | 112 |
| Dining-room furnished with fine old furniture | 113 |
| Dorothy Quincy's bed-room | 124 |
| Two valuable old desks | 125 |
| Pembroke inlaid table | 144 |
| Sheraton sideboard | 144 |
| Four post bed | 145 |
| Doorway detail, Compiègne | 152 |
| Reproduction of a bed owned by Marie Antoinette | 153 |
| Reproduction of Louis XVI bed | 153 |
| A Georgian hallway | 162 |
| Rare block-front chest of drawers | 163 |
| A modern living-room | 178 |
| Curtain treatment 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 |
