Furniture includes objects like tables, chairs, beds, cupboards etc. It helps facilitate day to day activities like eating, sleeping, writing etc.
Furniture can be made of different materials like wood, plastic, stone and metal. The materials and designs used for furniture have been changing throughout history.
Prehistoric & Middle Ages Furniture
When nomadic life stopped and people started settling down in permanent homes, they felt the need for furniture. The earliest known furniture is known to be from a stone-age village in Sara Brae in the Orkney Islands in Scotland in 2,000 BC. The made stone furniture like beds and cupboards.
Rich people in ancient Egypt lived in large and comfortable houses. Inside, they had wooden furniture like tables, chairs and chests for storage etc. They used wooden head rests instead of pillows. While this flamboyance existed, peasants lived in homes made of mud - the concept of furniture for them,
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Furniture here included wall paintings called murals. The furniture was usually finely carved and beautiful to look at. They were also one of the first to use oil lamps for lighting. Here too, peasants used extremely basic furniture.
Furniture till Present
In the 16th century, life became even more comfortable for the wealthy. There was a wider variety of choices than in the middle ages, and not as basic. Oak furniture was extensively used in wealthy homes, which made the furniture bulky.
Glass windows became common, although the poor still used strips of linen soaked in linseed oil.
In the late 17th century walnut or mahogany replaced oak. Decoration too was done in different and newer ways. One was veneering. (Thin pieces of expensive wood were laid over cheaper wood). Some furniture was also inlaid with the mother of pearl to add value.
In the 18th century, furniture was mass produced for the first time. It was cheaper, but unfortunately this led to fall in quality and design
The furniture represents the Birling families longing for status. In the early 1900s social status was virtually everything. This was because socialism dominated the whole of the United Kingdom. The vertical social ladder of status was what controlled who was a "somebody" and who was a "nobody".
it has nice furniture and antiques so that it appears to be comfortable and old
Beginning in the 1830's, the first influences of Victorian furniture were from the English architect, Augustus Pugin. These were of the "Neo-gothic Design (Sometimes More is More)" characterized by dark woods, pointed arches, trefoils and other Gothic cathedral carvings. By incorporating previous influences from cathedrals, furniture represented morality in the Victorians lives (Sometimes More is More). A trefoil looks like a three-leaf clover and is found in wooden furniture.
Even more ironic is the fact that Queen Anne architecture got its roots and thrived during the machine age. It is ironic in the fact that a style so lavish could exist in an era where factories were becoming a large part of America. Heading into the late 1800's America had been mostly an agricultural country. Our nation was mostly made up of farms and plantations. This began to change in the late 1800's.
Many different classes of people existed in the Middle Ages. Each class had a certain and very different way of life than the other. Peasants in the Middle Ages had extremely difficult lives. Domestic life for the peasants during the Middle Ages was endured with many hardships and sacrifices, but in the end they were just everyday citizens doing what they had to in order to survive.
Interior Decorators such as Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy Draper helped to pave the way for the Interior Design profession today. Their influential decisions to stray away from the Victorian style of design helped guide both the interior decorating profession, as well as architects who no longer wanted to design in the bulky and cluttered Victorian Style. Elsie de Wolfe designed during the Victorian movement, however “had adopted the 1890’s preference for Neoclassicism” (Smith, 22). Unlike the cluttered and dark interiors of an average Victorian interior, her interiors were, “in the words of one visitor, ‘[models] of simplicity’” (Smith, 20).
The furniture you see was built for these rooms and for these rooms alone. " (House Beautiful, April 1937) The furniture that was designed for Greenbelt needed to be very affordable. " The idea was to provide essential items of furniture which will fit into a minimum amount of space and at the same time make them attractive, low-priced and extremely durable. " (Daily News, April 20, 1937)
Swarbrick, John. Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture decoration and furniture. London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner 1915.
A lot of the furniture was made out of native black walnut, yellow pine, white oak,
Marquetry is the art of inlaying different woods, and other natural materials to create a picture. To inlay is to set a material onto another surface, but still level with the surface. In most cases the inlayed material is wood but it could be ivory, tortoise shells, bark, straw, stone, metal, gems, or any other attractive material to the artists liking. All the defects are used in the overall effect of the picture. Marquetry is often found on the finest furniture. It has been around for thousands of years, and today is considered something of a dying art.
The covetable was brown, the lamp was tall and skinny and its color was like a badge color, the headphones were black, and the couch was a tannish color.
According to this situation, we found out the various essential elements of “Your Choice Furniture”.
Charles Santore said “Windsor furniture is the most historically significant furniture style to emerge from eighteenth-century America,” and backs up his claim by talking about the history of the furniture. First, Santore goes on by talking about important people from history like Benjamin Franklin, Charles Carroll, George Washington, John Adams, and others that have been seen sitting on Windsor chairs and furniture. Then, explains initially what is Windsor, how people use this furniture and history on the Windsor design.
Close to the wall with books and papers haphazardly placed all over its surface sits the one piece of furniture no home can do without one. Some purchase this piece of furniture to fill up a space in a home and eat a meal or two. For others, it is a nothing more than a pretty addition to a beautiful home topped with an elegant table runner and properly placed plates and silverware. This furnishing comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors made of wood, stone, metal, and plastic. For most, the dining room table is a gathering place to share stories of their day and enjoy fellowship together. The family table in our house is plain, aging, and well used, not fancy and untouched.
As elements of interior design develop, “Interior Designipedia is solution orientated for each of your design projects and in constantly changing” (Yule 1). “Of all the component elements that together form a completed interior, the single most important element is space” (Britannica School High 3). Many parts of design make a big impact on how they make the room feel. “Interior design styles are essentially about building an environment to seduce the emotions” (Yule 1). For example the “Textures can evoke feeling of elegance such as silk or informality such as rough, tweedy materials” (Britannica School High 6). Sculptures are very traditional pieces that add a great element to rooms (6). Another design element is lighting, which is one of the most important parts of design (Yule 3). As stated before, “light, both natural and artificial, is one of the most important design elements” (Britannica School High 4). Many of the interior designs used in the United S...