Frederick Litchfield created an enduring classic study of
functional art with his Illustrated History of Furniture. This
reprinting is presented out of a deep appreciation for the
excellent scholarship and many illuminating insights that he so
generously shared. The first chapter, which refers to Ancient
Furniture and covers a period of several centuries, is introductory
to those that follow, rather than a serious attempt to examine the
history of the furniture during that space of time. The fourth
chapter, which deals with a period of some hundred and fifty years,
from the time of King James the First until that of Chippendale and
his contemporaries, and the last three chapters, are more fully
descriptive than some others, partly because trustworthy
information to these times was more accessible, and partly because
it is probable that English readers will feel greater interest in
the furniture of which they are the subject. The French meubles de
luxe, from the latter half of the seventeenth century until the
Revolution, are also treated more fully than the furniture of other
periods and countries, on account of the interest which has been
manifested in this description of the cabinet maker's and metal
mounter's work. Evidence of this appreciation may be found in the
enormous prices realized at notable auction sales, when such
furniture has been offered for competition to wealthy connoisseurs.
Such furniture cannot be cheap certainly, but the real cost is
sometimes borne by the artist who produces, rather than by the man
who may happen to buy it. It is often forgotten that the price paid
is that of the lives and sustenance of the workers and their
families.
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