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Today in our everyday life we use chairs of any kind, starting from ordinary four-legged chairs to office chairs on wheels, and consider it a normal thing. It is indeed normal nowadays, and no one thinks of it as a luxury.

The understanding “chair” comes through centuries. The term has several meanings, starting from the ordinary chair we sit on to the emblem of authority in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and Canada. However, all its meanings have the same prehistory.

Firstly, ancient people did not have any chairs or any imagination about such things. Later when tribes started to have their leaders, they made chairs for them to sit on as a sign of superiority. And for many centuries it stayed as an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use.

All our knowledge about chairs of ancient times is gained by monuments and statues of those times. Studies show that Egypt made splendid and rich chairs, not typical of the time. They were fashioned of ebony and ivory, of carved and gilded wood covered with costly materials. Greeks, on the contrary, had very simple straight chairs with a very tall back. By the 12th century China also had already started making chairs though the form is not known to us, but the fact is known that chairs were only destined for leaders.

In Europe in the times of the Renaissance the chair lost its idea of privilege, and everyone who could afford buying a chair bought and used it as a part of furniture for everyday life.

In the 20th century, the century of technology, the chair as well as everything else did not escape development. Now you have a wide range of choices and can get any kind of chair you like: nice wooden or leather chairs for your home furniture, light and plastic chairs for the garden, straw chairs for having a good rest, huge and tiny office chairs, and so forth. And the most exciting thing about a chair is that you can use it whenever and wherever you want, even if you don’t occupy a superior post at all.

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