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 GRECIAN AND MODERN VILLA FURNITURE. 1061 2107. Ottoman Footstools, Figs. 1921 and 1922 are ottoman footstools, which may have the same-coloured coverings as the ottomans, ov as the curtains ; the material being fine cloth. The carved part may be of mahogany or rosewood. 2108. Chairs. Figs. 1924, 1925, 1926 exhibit three varieties of easy chairs. They may be covered with morocco, or with the same furniture as the sofas and window curtains. Fig. 1 923 is another easy chair, with a richly carved frame, and cane seat. It should have a cushion covered with the same stuff as the curtains. These chairs are all to a scale of three quarters of an inch to a foot. Fig. 1 927 may be made of maple, or any other veined wood ; or of beech painted or japanned. The variety of chairs of this kind is endless; they are not very strong, but their,. appearance is light, and, their proportions being slender, they may be considered as not inelegant. Figs. 1928 to 1932 are what are called fancy chairs for drawingrooms ; they may be made of rosewood, maple, satin, or any other kind of fancy wood ; and French polished (that is, polished and varnished with a par- ticular composition invented in Paris, and brought to this country after the peace of 1814). The seats are first caned, and then covered in patterns with willow (split wiUow rods) of different colours, produced by stain- ing, so as very successfully to imitate various kinds of wood. These chairs, when not so expensively finished in the seat, will also serve for bed-rooms. Theii* great advantage in a drawingroom is their lightness. They may have hair cushions covered with the same furniture as the curtains and sofas ; or they may have stuffed seats covered with da- mask. Figs. 1933, 1934, and 1935 are also drawingroom chairs. The first has a carved seat and back ; the other two are made of maple or satin wood with matted seats. The splats (the middle part of the back, which either connects the top and bottom rails, or the two side styles) are carved in the forms of the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle. Figs. 1936 and 1937 are di-awdngroom chairs. Fig. 1936 has an open back, which may be executed in rosewood or mahogany. Fig. 1 937 has a stuffed back, and is a very easy chair to sit upon, though rather expensive. In point of taste, the chairs from