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This series of lectures will begin with a consideration of some of the first furniture (tree-stump chairs), and metalwork (leg-irons), made in the colony, as well as the earliest buildings and their interiors. The lecture will go onto discuss the great flowering of cabinet making in the early 19th century, the possibility of an identifiable Australian style, the boom of cabinet making and gold and silver smithing that occurred following the discovery of gold.The decorative arts has come to include a broad spectrum of disciplines such as furniture, silver, metalwork, jewellery, ceramics, glass, textiles, fashion, and the popular arts, such as quilt-making.