ABSTRACT
This article by one of the Strand Magazine’s regular contributors introduces the topic of ‘animal furniture’ as an aspect of interior decoration. Fitzgerald also published a version of the article in the American journal The Decorator and Furnisher in the same year. A fur-rigged bear sculpture is standing with a plate of glasses and a bottle on it. It is quite astonishing to learn how many defunct animals are called upon to throw light upon things. The backrest of the chair is extended with a giraffe body, and its head sits at the top. The legs of the chair were covered with cloth. For some reason, innumerable monkeys were sold to light up billiard-rooms, the little animals swinging from a hoop with one hand and carrying the lamp in the other. Of course the idea of turning into useful articles pets that have died from natural causes or old age is at once ingenious and praiseworthy.
