Contents include: Is there a Welsh style? An examination of the way Welsh furniture has been studied. The cultural region of Wales. The development of the chair. Establishing provenance: research methods, combining artefactual and documentary evidence. The central role of the craftsman: timber, construction and trade organization. A study of different social levels: Gwydir Castle and Gelli farmhouse. The Medieval Court, manuscripts and bardic praise. Elementary furniture types; elaborate church screens; great turned chairs; chests, cradles, tables and buffets. The elusive Harri ap Gruffydd’s cupboard. The Court of Rhys ap Thomas. A native style of heraldic and polychromed furniture and panelling. Advanced Renaissance tastes and Continental influences: standing bedsteads, court cupboards and drawleaf tables. A productive group of Pembrokeshire carvers. click below for Volume 1 Contents Page Gentry patronage of 17th century craftsmen. Domestic developments and probate inventories. Fine carving and turning, and the ‘Cromwellian’ taste. Widespread production and even export of furniture. The distinctive cwpwrdd deuddarn and cwpwrdd tridarn and the emergence of the ‘Welsh dresser’.