The oldest known samples of furniture were found in Egypt in the royal tombs of III century BC. This debris caskets made of black wood, inlaid with ivory, malachite and turquoise. There have been found and the first in the history of mankind stools, one of whom was even folding. Stools of these were made of wood, and legs in the form of hooves of animals carved from whole elephant tusks. Ancient Egyptians are also "authors" of beds and chairs.
The first furniture, created by man, was tight and very functional. Only the Egyptian pharaohs could afford to sit in a chair decorated with gold trim and elaborate carvings.
Great, but unpretentious in life, the Greeks invented GEL - original boxes, which served both couches and benches.
But in the palaces and villas of the nobility in ancient Rome, even the furniture was too luxurious, decorated with carvings and inlays, gold and colored enamel. In the quest for luxury Romans used and new materials for furniture production - bronze and colored marble, from which tables and benches made with mosaic tabletops. A Roman artisans for their homes, creating a convenient and inexpensive furniture, woven willow.
Much later chair, table and bed was born wardrobe. It happened in the Middle Ages in the Gothic castles of feudal Europe. The prototype served his chest-the chest, which tried to stretch upwards from the abundance of stored items and turned into a closet, just taking one of the main places in the hierarchy of the furniture. Cabinet began to imitate the Gothic castles, decorated with the likeness of turrets, columns and even a wooden sculpture. Very easy to use for different purposes, a case was the founder of an entire furniture "Dynasty": it later emerged from the cupboard with glass doors, which have learned to pour a large glass area, and then appeared, and a bookcase. With the development of carpentry and human imagination, creating a hybrid of the table and cabinet-office.
Upholstered furniture has arisen in the castles of European nobility in the period of classicism.
In France, the trendsetter in interior decoration, this time built residence of kings and not lagging behind the palaces of the nobility. First furniture, designed to seat just snug cloth. Then, when the owners of castles are becoming more used to the luxury and comfort, and their clothes became lighter, less insulated and multi-layered, sit on hard chairs and sofas was not very comfortable. "Crowded" upholstered furniture horse hair, sheep wool, swan's down, and later became used rubber, and in our time foam and sintepon.
As time passed, there were new styles in architecture and interior design, and each of them, or modifying existing items of furniture, or create something entirely new. Baroque "brought" canapes and sunbed, Rococo, with its love for the mirror - dressing table and a table for a toilet with a triple-mirror - The lattice. Modern "invented" a chair without armrests and with back in the form of half shells. Furniture being modified, then simplifying, the more difficult, depending on the fashion trends. Established a chair with no back - poof and without back the same, but with cushions, sofa - sofa bed. Secretaires, sideboards, chests of drawers and shelves - it has options for the transfiguration of the cabinet.
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