The writer states that Victorian furniture design …….

Although there are designs that have come in for a good deal of abuse, the modern furniture design is both simple and efficient. It aims at relating methods of construction to real needs. In Victorian times, however, design got out of touch with life. Needless ornamentation made us forge: what furniture was really for. Modern design has stripped away all that is inessential. Its purpose is not to astonish, but to provide us with what is pleasing and useful. A piece of really fine modern furniture should never be seen in isolation, but as part of a setting. Only then can we judge its shape, colour, and utility.