| History of the chair principal Article: History of the | | | | their use deviated soon on all the levels of the |
| chair the chair is extreme antiquity, although | | | | company. By the 12th century the allowance of |
| during much of centuries and indeed for | | | | the places on the floor was rare in China, unlike in |
| thousands of years it was an article of state and | | | | other Asian countries where the continued habit, |
| dignity rather than an article of an ordinary utility. | | | | and the chair, or generally the stool, were |
| "The chair" still is intensively employed like emblem | | | | employed in the great majority of houses in all |
| of authority in the House of Commons in the | | | | the country. |
| United Kingdom and Canada, and at the public | | | | In Africa, it had on the whole with the war of Bull |
| meetings. It did not take place, in fact, until the | | | | that the chair ceased to be a privilege of state, |
| 16th century that it became common anywhere. | | | | and went well to the usual companion of that |
| The trunk, to put it except play and the stool | | | | which could have the means of buying it. Once |
| were up to that point the ordinary seats of the | | | | the idea of the privilege faded the chair quickly |
| everyday life, and numbers it chairs which | | | | inherited the general use. We find almost |
| survived of more brought closer date is | | | | immediately that the chair started to change all |
| excessively limited; the majority of such | | | | the few years to reflect the modes of the hour. |
| examples are of ecclesiastical origin or seigniorial. | | | | The 20th century saw an increasing use of |
| Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity | | | | technology in the construction of chair with things |
| is derived almost entirely monuments, sculpture | | | | such as the entirely metal collapsible chairs, the |
| and paintings. Some real examples exist in the | | | | chairs metal-with legs, the chair of drowsiness, the |
| British museum, the Egyptian museum in Cairo, | | | | molded chairs in figure and the ergonomic chairs. |
| and elsewhere. In ancient Asia the chairs seem to | | | | To incline became a popular form, at least partly |
| have been large richness and splendor. Worked | | | | due to the radio and on television, and later one in |
| ebony wood and ivory, or cut out and gilded | | | | two parts. The modern movement of the Sixties |
| wood, they were covered with expensive | | | | produced the new shapes of chairs: the chair of |
| materials and were supported on representations | | | | butterfly, bean bags, and the egg-formed chair of |
| of the legs of the animals or figures of the | | | | thimble. Technological progress led to the chairs |
| prisoners. | | | | out of laminate molded of plywood and wooden, |
| The known shape earliest of Greek chairs, going | | | | as of the made chairs of leather or polymers. |
| again to five or six centuries before Christ, had a | | | | Mechanical technology incorporated in the |
| back but held directly to the top, before and back. | | | | adjustable chairs permitted by chair, particularly |
| During the dynasty of savor (618 - | | | | for the use of office. The built-in motors in the |
| ADVERTISEMENT 907), a seat higher initially | | | | chair had like consequence of the chairs of |
| started to appear among the Chinese elite and | | | | massage. |