Furniture: A Concise HistoryTreating furniture as a statement about the society that created it, this illustrated survey focuses on the ways in which people's lives, self-images, and preoccupations affect the form and function of furniture. |
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Meanings of furniture | 7 |
Ancient Egypt Western Asia Greece | 17 |
The middle ages | 33 |
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12th Dynasty Adam American architect architecture armchair Art Deco art furniture Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Assurbanipal Bauhaus became Biedermeier Breuer buffet cabinet cabinet-makers cantilever chair carved chair designed Charles chest classical comfort contemporary Crafts Movement craftsmen created cupboard ébénistes ebony Egyptian eighteenth century elaborate Empire England English Europe European example fact fashion France French function furnishings furniture-designer furniture-makers furniture-types Germany Gothic grammar of ornament Greek Guild Hetepheres important influence inlay innovation interior decoration inventory Italian Italy kind lacquer laminated late Le Corbusier London Louis XIV Louis XVI luxurious material metal modern Morris Museum neo-classicism nineteenth century ormolu ornament painted palaces panels particular period Photo piece of furniture Queen renaissance revival rococo Roman rooms Ruskin sarcophagus sculpture seat seat-furniture seventeenth century sixteenth-century Skara Brae sometimes stools style stylistic survived tables taste Thonet throne Tutankhamun typical upholstery Victorian Wiener Werkstätte wood