designs--Italian carving--Cabinet work--General remarks.



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.