21 Facts About Office furniture

The first surviving extant Office furniture is in the homes of Skara Brae in Scotland, and includes cupboards, dressers and beds all constructed from stone.

The evolution of Office 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.

One unique outgrowth of post-modern Office furniture design is a return to natural shapes and textures.

English word Office furniture is derived from the French word, the noun form of, which means to supply or provide.

The earliest evidence for the existence of constructed Office furniture is a Venus figurine found at the Gagarino site in Russia, which depicts the goddess in a sitting position, on a throne.

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Range of unique stone Office furniture has been excavated in Skara Brae, a Neolithic village in Orkney, Scotland The site dates from 3100 to 2500 BCE and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara Brae were forced to build with stone, a readily available material that could be worked easily and turned into items for use within the household.

Each house shows a high degree of sophistication and was equipped with an extensive assortment of stone Office furniture, ranging from cupboards, dressers, and beds to shelves, stone seats, and limpet tanks.

Ancient Office furniture has been excavated from the 8th-century BCE Phrygian tumulus, the Midas Mound, in Gordion, Turkey.

Egyptian Office furniture was primarily constructed using wood, but other materials were sometimes used, such as leather, and pieces were often adorned with gold, silver, ivory and ebony, for decoration.

Greek Office furniture construction made use of dowels and tenons for joining the wooden parts of a piece together.

Wood was shaped by carving, steam treatment, and the lathe, and Office furniture is known to have been decorated with ivory, tortoise shell, glass, gold or other precious materials.

Roman Office furniture was based heavily on Greek Office furniture, in style and construction.

Roman Office furniture was constructed principally using wood, metal and stone, with marble and limestone used for outside Office furniture.

The variety of Byzantine Office furniture is pretty big: tables with square, rectangle or round top, sumptuous decorated, made of wood sometimes inlaid, with bronze, ivory or silver ornaments; chairs with high backs and with wool blankets or animal furs, with coloured pillows, and then banks and stools; wardrobes were used only for storing books; cloths and valuable objects were kept in chests, with iron locks; the form of beds imitated the Roman ones, but have different designs of legs.

Shaker-style Office furniture became popular during this time in North America as well.

Prime examples include Office furniture designed by George Nelson Associates, Charles and Ray Eames, Paul McCobb, Florence Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Harvey Probber, Vladamir Kagan and Danish modern designers including Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen.

Transitional Office furniture is intended to fill a place between Traditional and Modern tastes.

One unique outgrowth of post-modern Office furniture design is Live edge, heralding a return to natural shapes and textures within the home.

Traditional Japanese Office furniture is well known for its minimalist style, extensive use of wood, high-quality craftsmanship and reliance on wood grain instead of painting or thick lacquer.

Simplest form of seat is the chair, which is a piece of Office furniture designed to allow a single person to sit down, which has a back and legs, as well as a platform for sitting.

Higher quality Office furniture tends to be made out of hardwood, including oak, maple, mahogany, teak, walnut, cherry and birch.