In the 30's fashionable furniture with a limed oak finish would have the oak converted to a silvery-grey finish before the grain was filled.

To furnish the house, Ramsey's wife Anna filled two boxcars with fashionable and expensive Renaissance-revival furniture from the A. T. Stewart Company Store in New York to bring home to Minnesota.

In fact, they served as general contractors, designing and commissioning pieces of the most fashionable furniture, and often, in addition, worked outside of their shops as interior decorators, responsible for many aspects of a room's decor.

The 11 rectangular, boxlike works, all but one of them on the wall, suggest the most fashionable furniture and the most fashionable clothing - and the most fashionable equipment that campers, mountain climbers and deep-sea divers can buy.

Packed with the era's fashionable furniture, books, toys, food, and magazines, the 1950s House provides a window into mid-century visual culture.

But despite availability, popularity and an increasingly sophisticated set of references, this visitor to the 1999 fair found design's sense of leadership sadly missing among the largely fashionable furniture.

This particular dollhouse reflects the years 1660 to 1760, which the English call the age of walnut, because that was the chief wood used for fashionable furniture.

The use of teak in fashionable furniture and panelling regained popularity in the 1960s and items became chunkier as it progressed into the 1970s.

Furnishings from earlier administrations were sold at auction to fund the acquisition of newer more fashionable furniture.

By the middle of the 18th century walnut was no longer used for fashionable furniture but continued in favour in the provinces where, late in the century, pieces were made in the style of 50 years earlier.