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Sometimes you walk into an exhibition and the stuff hits you over the head. Sometimes you walk in and it takes a while to sink in. The new furniture rooms that are part of the 
By going from room to room you can see how the styles evolved and impacted dressers, chairs, and desks.
My favorite piece was a gaming table probably by Seymour, but the whole show, by having a context, had me going back and forth between the rooms many times. In other parts of the National Gallery they have interesting furniture scattered around the paintings. Some of it is quite wonderful. However the Kaufman exhibit, which isn't huge, only three or four rooms, really made the difference because it had a story, a message, I learned a lot, it wasn't just nicely displayed stuff. If you are in DC do not miss it. 
The summer recall of 
You might have noticed - I really hope you noticed - a major format change to our store this past week. I hope you like it. The goal is to make it easier to drill down from the main menu, through various departments to actual products you might be interested in. More subtle changes are coming in the weeks as the we add in missing images and other things. We might also consolidate some of our menu structure. We have a lot of great products that seem to get buried. Since I'm the guy who does all the programming, I have to fit it all in while I am working on new products, helping customers, and run the business. So it might take a little while to get it all done. 
Holdfasts are back in stock and we will be bringing several cases of them with us to 
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Regarding the raised platforms. I suspect that these are, to some degree, influenced by the American Disabilities Act. They act as guards that a blind visitor using a cane could follow to avoid stumbling into the objects. Anytime we (I work in a museum) put something out into a space that you could run into in the vertical space, we need to make sure to have a ground level blocking to make sure that cane users can avoid it.
I'm sure there are other solutions to this problem, and who knows, these might be entirely an aesthetic choice, but even a fence of some sort would need a floor level guide for the blind.
Cheers.
bk
It seems to me there is no reason for the platforms except to make it clear these are a display or to provide a demarcation without the typical rope. The Yale art museum has an excellent period furniture collection and they have elected to put it all on the floor. Its really nice to be able to get down on your hands and knees close to a piece and study the details. Of course under the eyes of a watchful guard.
I look forward to further museum tours. I am sure you have already visited them, I think some of your audience might find Yale (recently renovated), the Yale furniture study and Historic Deerfield's museum. These are smaller museums with some real treats.