Chapter IX.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION: Exhibitors and contemporary Cabinet Makers--Exhibition of 1862, London; 1867, Paris; and subsequently--Description of Illustrations--Fourdinois, Wright and Mansfield--The South Kensington Museum--Revival of Marquetry--Comparison of Present Day with that of a Hundred Years ago--Æstheticism--Traditions--Trades-Unionism--The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society--Independence of Furniture--Present Fashions--Writers on Design--Modern Furniture in other Countries--Concluding Remarks.

APPENDIX.

List of Artists and Manufacturers of Furniture--Woods--Tapestry used for French Furniture--The processes of Gilding and Polishing--The Pianoforte.

Index.

List of Subscribers.

List of Illustrations.

Frontispiece--Dwelling Room of a French Chateau