Furniture is movable objects designed to support various human activities such as seats (e.g., chairs, stools, desks and sofas) and sleeping (e.g., mattresses). Furniture is also used to hold items at a convenient elevation for work (as horizontal areas above the ground, such as dining tables and tables), or to store things (e.g., cupboards and racks). Furniture can be a product of design and is known as a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's practical role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. It could be created from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be produced by using a variety of woodworking bones which often mirror the local culture.People have been using natural items, such as tree stumps, rocks and moss, as furniture because the beginning of human being civilisation. Archaeological research implies that from around 30,000 years ago, people started out carving and constructing their own furniture, using wood, stone, and animal bones. Early furniture out of this period is well known from artwork such as a Venus figurine within Russia, depicting the goddess over a throne. The first making it through extant furniture is within the true homes of Skara Brae in Scotland, and includes cupboards, beds and dressers all made of natural stone. Complex construction techniques such as joinery begain in the first dynastic period of Egypt, with constructed wooden pieces including tables and stools, sometimes decorated with valuable metals or ivory. The evolution of furniture design continued in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, with thrones being commonplace as well as the klinai, multipurpose couches used for relaxing, eating, and sleeping. The furniture of the Middle Age groups was usually heavy, oak, and ornamented. Furniture design extended during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. The seventeenth century, in both Southern and Northern Europe, was seen as a opulent, often gilded Baroque designs. The nineteenth century is described by revival styles. The first three-quarters of the twentieth century tend to be seen as the march towards Modernism. One unique outgrowth of post-modern furniture design is a return to natural textures and forms
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