Versailles, magnificence of, 65 Vervien, 164 Vestibule, 169 ——, 174 Viaucourt, 66 Vien, 263 Viollet le Duc, quotation from, 6–7 Voyelle, 277 Voyeuse, the, 32, 278, 363 Voltaire, 168 Vouet, Simon, 4 _W_ Wailly, Charles de, 257, 263 Wainscot (Early Georgian), 146, 147 Wall decorations (Louis XV.), 173 Wall-hangings, Ware on, 147–148 Wall paper, 336 Wallis, N., 290 Walpole, Horace, 17, 149, 150 ——, quotations from, 136, 149 Wardrobes (Heppelwhite), 325 Ware, Isaac, quotations from, 138–140, 145–148, 149–150 Watelet, 256–263 Watteau, 142, 161, 225 ——, designs by, 205 Weisweiler, 267 William, King of England, 110 Winant, 213 Window (Jacobean), 43–44 Window-blinds (Sheraton), 336 Window-curtains (Early Georgian), 153–154 —— (Louis XV.), 187, 200 —— (Louis XVI.), 270–271 —— (Sheraton), 336 Windows, 43 Window-seat, 44 —— stools (Heppelwhite), 315 Windsor chair, 152, 153 Wine-cooler (Chippendale), 246 Wolsey, Cardinal, 46 Woods (Early Georgian), 153, 154 —— (Empire), 379 —— (Jacobean), 38 —— (Louis XIII.), 11 —— (Louis XVI.), 276 Work-table (Sheraton), 357 Wren, Christopher, 296 Wressil Castle, 43 Writing-tables (Louis XV.), 190 _Z_ Zucchi, Antonio, 292, 304, 305 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Changed “feet long” to “feet wide” on p. 78. 2. Changed “dairy” to “diary” on p. 112. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors. 4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Superscripts are denoted by a carat before a single superscript character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}. End of Project Gutenberg's French and English furniture, by Esther Singleton
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