Furniture is movable things intended to support various individual activities such as seats (e.g., chair, stools, dining tables and sofas) and sleeping (e.g., mattresses). Furniture is also used to carry things at a convenient elevation for work (as horizontal surfaces above the bottom, such as furniture and desks), or even to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves). 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 can be created from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be produced by using a variety of woodworking joints which often echo the neighborhood culture.People have been using natural things, such as tree stumps, moss and rocks, as furniture because the beginning of real human civilisation. Archaeological research implies that from around 30,000 years ago, people started out carving and constructing their own furniture, using wood, rock, and animal bone fragments. Early furniture from this period is known from artwork such as a Venus figurine found in Russia, depicting the goddess on a throne. The first surviving extant furniture is at the true homes of Skara Brae in Scotland, and includes cupboards, bedrooms and dressers all made of stone. Complex construction techniques such as joinery begain in the first dynastic period of Egypt, with constructed wooden pieces including tables and stools, adorned with valuable metals or ivory sometimes. 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 broadened during the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and fourteenth hundred years. The seventeenth century, in both Southern and Northern Europe, was seen as a opulent, gilded Baroque designs often. The nineteenth century is usually defined by revival styles. The first three-quarters of the twentieth century are seen as the march towards Modernism often. One unique outgrowth of post-modern furniture design is a return to natural textures and patterns
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