The twentieth century was marked by elegant chairs by Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann. However, the European avant-garde and a famous artistic association "Bauhaus" searched for new forms of familiar things, including chairs. The First World War and the Revolution have worn the Old World. People wanted comfort, but without the "frills" old times. It was at this time last director of the Bauhaus "Miss Ludwig van der Rohe presented the generation ascetic chairs without legs on the springy construction of bent metal tubes.

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The first stools and low stools - klismos appeared in ancient Greece. Their use borrowed Ancient Rome, transforming a functional piece of furniture in the attribute of power and might. Every Roman officials - KOURULA walked servant, who wore a folding stool. Thus KOURULA could at any time with dignity to sit in the shade and comfort to repair justice and punishment. For more bombast stools trim ivory and preachy maxims.

Since social stratification emerged two basic types of chairs: household and a representative, in other words - the throne. Tron - is almost the same chair, only a piece of work, for the deserved or positions of authority in the community. This seat is trying to do especially beautiful and ... ascetic. Despite the wealth of decoration, the throne had a rather hard seat and a straight high back to help straighten your posture and maintain a majestic appearance. Can not govern reclining, this process requires strict concentration and posture. In Russia, the royal chair, wearing the emperor as a sign of prestige. Well-known German traveler XVII century Olearius described solemn procession, in which the king Mikhail Fedorovich respectfully carried the red chair. Very exciting stories thrones of some Russian rulers.

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As soon as people came home, vnem always have to find a place. Apparently, due to the fact that most of the time, until the man is not asleep, he preferred to sit than to stand (not counting the most lazy J). In recent years the world has a new kind of furniture, with which a person may hold a sitting position. This furniture -- bar stools.

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