Furniture Past and Present
Subtitle: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture Styles from Ancient to Modern
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Garden City, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Furniture -- History
First sentence: Ancient to Renaissance • To understand the development of domestic furniture and its place in the changing social habits, it is necessary to begin by considering furniture of the ancient world, because the modern is the outcome and inheritor of the ancient, the old visibly influencing the new.
Description: In this up-to-date, thorough, and professional book on furniture of the Western world, Louise Ade Boger discusses in a clear and very readable way chairs, cabinets, and a myriad of other furniture forms from the time of Tutankhamen to the very latest architectural furniture styles of Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe.

The 582 black-and-white photographs give pictorial support to Mrs. Boger's lucid descriptions. 

The pieces are chosen as epitomes of the historical period they come from; the result is an encyclopedic volume that will delight the layman, the art historian, and the interior decorator.

Mrs. Boger revives the historical period in which a piece belongs in order to give a setting to its designer's life and method, as well as to show the currents of influence which affect him. 

The book helps its reader to develop a broader appreciation of furniture through study of all of its phases in all ages. 

It shows how one style of furniture derives some of its characteristics from the events and conditions of its period, others from the past, and still others from the great cabinetmakers and designers, such as Hepplewhite and Adam, Mackintosh, and Mies van der Rohe.