Only very meagre notices are to be found of the artists to whom we owe the designs of modern furniture. For a hundred and fifty years after the renaissance, furniture partook so generally, and the woodwork of rooms so entirely, of the character and followed so continually the details of architecture that the history of furniture-designers is that of the architects of the day. These found in the members of guilds of carvers, carpenters, or image sculptors admirable hands to carry out the ornamental details of their woodwork, such as chimney-pieces, &c., and who made sideboards, cabinets, chairs, and tables to suit the woodwork. We have space here only for the names; in the large catalogue a brief notice of almost every one of them is also given. ------------------------------+-----------------+---------------- |Country in which | Names of Artists. | they worked. | Date. ------------------------------+-----------------+----------------- A | | | | Adam, J. (and R.) |England |1728-1792. | | Agnolo, B. da |Italy |1460-1563. | | Agnolo, D. da | " |16th century. | | Agnola, J. da | " | " " | | Ambrogio, G. | " |17th " | | Ards, W. |Flanders |15th " | | Asinelis, A. |Italy |16th " | | B | | | | Bachelier, -- |France |16th century. | | Baerze, J. de |Flanders |14th " | | Baker, -- |England |18th " | | Barili, A. |Italy |16th " | | Barili, G. | " | " " | | Barili, S. | " | " " | | Baumgartner, U. |Germany |17th century. | | Beaugreant, G. de |Flanders |16th " | | Beck, S. |Germany | " "