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Furniture is movable objects intended to support various individual activities such as seating (e.g., recliners, stools, furniture and sofas) and sleeping (e.g., bedrooms). Furniture is also used to carry things at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as furniture and desks), or even to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves). Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's useful 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 echo the local culture.Folks have been using natural objects, such as tree stumps, rocks and moss, as furniture because the beginning of human being civilisation. Archaeological research shows that from around 30,000 years ago, people started out carving and constructing their own furniture, using wood, natural stone, and animal bones. Early furniture from this period is well known from artwork like a Venus figurine found in 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 constructed from rock. 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 range was usually heavy, oak, and ornamented. Furniture design widened during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth hundred years. The seventeenth century, in both Southern and Northern Europe, was characterized by opulent, often gilded Baroque designs. The nineteenth century is described by revival styles. The first three-quarters of the twentieth hundred years are seen as the march towards Modernism often. One unique outgrowth of post-modern furniture design is a return to natural shapes and textures
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