In this illuminating history, text and illustrations combine to offer a view of furniture not as a succession of collectors' pieces, but as a statement about the society that created it. Edward Lucie-Smith offers insights into almost every period, from the prehistoric to the postmodern--from Neolithic tables to 1960s conversation pits, and from the ceremonial chairs of Egypt in the thirteenth century BC to the designs of John Makepeace.
- ISBN13 9780500201725
- Publish Date 29 October 1979 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 July 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English