The Geffrye Museum's collections comprise furniture, textiles, paintings and objects displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. Reflecting changes in English domestic style and taste over the past 400 years, they include objects of national importance as well as specialist items including the earliest known piece of English furniture to bear a trade label, 18th and 19th-century tea caddies and workboxes, an important collection of Utility material and a extensive collection of 1950s curtain fabrics. Other key themes include the nationally significant Cotton Collection of English regional chairs.