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The word ‘“Furniture’”, is defined as “the mass noun for the movable objects intended
to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects
at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store
things”(www.en.wikipedia.org). This definition sums up a near entirety in our homes,
workplaces or any other space we use. From the moment one wakes up in their ‘bed’, the
‘chair’ one sits on during breakfast, the ‘desk’ at their workplaces, to the ‘couches’ one
rests on after a long day of work, our lives are made comfortable by the furniture we use
every hour of every day.
The origin of furniture, as with any other object in history, can be speculated seen as
an organic development caused by need, and perhaps even accidental discoveries.
Basic furniture could develop with the onset of a non-nomadic lifestyle, but superfluous
furniture probably originated much later in the evolution process. One can imagine
prehistoric furniture to be basic and simple in design and construction, and to be made
of materials that were easy to work with and naturally and indigenously available. In
this respect, the use of materials such as straw, twigs and timber can be accepted as
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