Contents include: The proliferation and diversity of regional types: chests and cupboards for storage and display; joined and stick chairs and tables; dressers and longcase clocks. Design and decoration: flowing inlay, fretwork and panelling. The community of craftsmen. Diverging values: nonconformity, desks and preachers chairs. Estate craftsmen, the rural community and the archetypal farmhouse interior. Travellers accounts and artists impressions. Cross-influences: cabinet-makers, joiners and village wheelwrights. The diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks of furniture makers. Pride in the industrial home. Large-scale production alongside the persistence of local preferences. The Arts and Crafts Movement, Eisteddfod chairs, and nostalgia for a rural past. The international antiques trade. Some Welsh light on the development of furniture. Continuity and change: influences from outside with development and innovation from within. The evolution of the dresser to its present position as the epitome of the Welsh tradition. click below for Volume Two Contents Page