Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors
Chats on Old Furniture is a 1906 collectors' guide by Arthur Hayden, published in New York by F.A. Stokes, written for amateur collectors of antique furniture. Its pictures are plain halftone photographs of individual chairs and one structural detail, shown in profile against white backgrounds with no setting. A designer could draw on their clear silhouettes, studded leather upholstery, carved back panels, cane seats and turned legs for period furniture forms and ornament.
