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It was this "home" and community gathering ( Civilization ) that created the need for furniture.

The earliest furniture was understandably very Primitive and only practical, but gradually the furniture also began to have more importance and it became Decorated . At this point, furniture became an early Status Symbol . Wealthy homeowners became more refined and demanded that their furnishings reflect their status and Lifestyle s.
  • Early furniture has been excavated from the 8th-century B.C. Phrygia n Tumulus , the Midas Mound, in Gordion , Turkey . Pieces found here include Table s and inlaid serving stands.

  • There are also surviving works from the 9th-8th-century B.C. Assyria n palace of Nimrud .

  • The earliest surviving carpet, the Pazyryk Carpet has been dated between the 6th and 3rd century B.C. and was discovered in a frozen tomb in Siberia .

  • Recovered Ancient Egypt ian furniture includes a 3rd millennium B.C. Bed discovered in the Tarkhan Tomb , a c.2550 B.C. Gilded set from the tomb of Queen Hetepheres , and a c. 1550 B.C. Stool from Thebes .

  • Ancient Greek furniture design beginning in the 2nd millennium B.C., including Bed s and the Klismos Chair , is preserved not only by extant works, but by images on Greek Vase s.

  • The 1738 and 1748 excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii introduced Roman furniture, preserved in the ashes of the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius , to the eighteenth century.



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