CHAPTER XIII. PERIOD ROOMS

Chiselling of
metals.--Ormoulu.--Chippendale.--Colonial.--Victorian.--The art of
furniture making.--How to hang a mirror.--Appropriate furniture.--A
home must have human quality, a personal note.--Mrs. John L.
Gardner's Italian Palace in Boston.--The study of colour
schemes.--Tapestries.--A narrow hall.


CHAPTER XIV. PERIODS IN FURNITURE

The story of the evolution of periods.--
Assyria.--Egypt.--Greece.--Rome.--France.
--England.--America.--Epoch-making styles.


CHAPTER XV. CONTINUATION OF PERIODS IN FURNITURE

Greece.--Rome.--Byzantium.--Dark Ages.--Middle
Ages.--Gothic.--Moorish.--Spanish.--Anglo-Saxon.--Cæsar's
Table.--Charlemagne's Chair.--Venice.


CHAPTER XVI. THE GOTHIC PERIOD

Interior decoration of Feudal Castle.--Tapestry.--Hallmarks of Gothic
oak carving.