FURNITURE

In this illuminating history, text and illustration 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 prehistor ic to the postmodern- from Neolithic tables to 1960s conversation pits, and from the ceremonial chairs of Egypt in the thirteenth ce ntury bc to the designs of John Makepeace.