What an Old Furniture Catalogue Can Teach Us About Decorating

A 1948 trade catalogue is a poor advertisement and an excellent document. What a list of dimensions and prices reveals about how people actually furnished a house.
Furniture and trade catalogues held in the archive.

A 1948 trade catalogue is a poor advertisement and an excellent document. What a list of dimensions and prices reveals about how people actually furnished a house.

Page after page of sideboards in a 1948 catalogue, and what that tells us about the room they were built for.