Furniture (from the Latin mobile - “movable”) is the collective name for movable and built-in room furnishings that are located in residential or public spaces. Furniture not only provides comfort to people's daily lives, but is also an important part of interior decoration. It is also often used to create a comfortable living environment in production, in the service sector and in various modes of transport.
Furniture has an ancient and rich history. It appeared more than 30,000 years ago, when our ancestors switched to a sedentary lifestyle and began to decorate their homes with the first household items. Over the course of many millennia, in parallel with the development of art and science, people have come up with new types of furniture. In different parts of the Earth, unique styles were created that combined the cultural characteristics of a particular civilization.
Furniture classification
Furniture surrounds a person from all sides throughout his life. A variety of furniture production items can be classified according to the following parameters:
- Location (for home, public premises or vehicle equipment).
- Purpose (for sitting, resting (sleeping), storing things, ensuring daily activities (tables).
- Manufacturing materials (solid wood, wood boards, metal, plastic, glass, bamboo, rattan).
- By type of production (serial, custom-made, experimental).
- According to design features (non-removable, collapsible, built-in).
Sets of several pieces of furniture made in the same style and intended for installation in one room are traditionally called sets. Such kits are most often installed in the rooms of a house or apartment:
- living room;
- bedroom;
- children's;
- kitchen;
- hallway;
- work office.
Furniture that is located outside the premises also plays an important role in a person’s life. It is usually installed in public places or in areas near a private home. This category includes a variety of options for garden, park and street furniture.
Jokes about furniture makers and furniture
Conversation between two businessmen: “I’m so glad, my friend, that you and your partner have finally made peace!” - Why do you think so? - But I myself saw how you sawed and chopped wood together! - A! We were the ones sharing the furniture from our office.
Ad in the paper. I upholster doors and furniture with customer leather.
The girl comes to visit and sees that all the furniture is upholstered in the same material from which her dress is made. Young woman. Horrible! We'll have to chat non-stop all evening. Boy. For what? Young woman. So that no one will mistake me for a chair.
A black man comes to the doctor and says: “Doctor, my lower back hurts.” - Well, take off your clothes. Completely, completely: Get on all fours... Yes!.. Well, bend your elbows... just about... And now stand the same way here near the window... No, let's go here to the closet... No, it's better here in the corner ... So... - Doctor, do I have radiculitis? - Yes, radiculitis, radiculitis, of course, now I’ll prescribe an ointment... - And why - Yes, I want to buy a black table, so I’ll see how it will look...
Husband. When my wife left me, I had a huge feeling of emptiness in the house. And once upon a time there was furniture everywhere.
A competition was announced for furniture for a small apartment. 1st place went to a pot with a handle inside.
A man buys a chandelier at the market. He chose the right one and asked: “Is this one durable?” Won't it break? - Take this one! It’s twice as expensive, but if you throw it from the ninth floor, it won’t break! A man bought a chandelier, takes it home and thinks: “And why the hell did he overpay?!” I live on the first floor!
– It’s strange how your furniture is somehow arranged: a piano on the closet, a TV in the refrigerator... Did you rearrange it? - Yes. – According to Feng Shui, I guess? - Drunk...
Beaver dad went hunting and caught a stool in the river. The whole family gathered in the evening for a gala dinner. They are sitting at the table, napkins tied, a stool on the table. And the smallest beaver says: “Dad! Can I have a leg?!”
A woman sends her child to kindergarten. The first time for both her and him. They walk along the road and are given various instructions about obeying elders, not arguing with anyone, obeying everyone, etc. They arrive, she quickly runs to the side to be nice to the teacher and, returning to the child, hands him over to the teacher (or nanny? ) And she steps aside and looks, wiping away a stingy tear. The nanny takes the child by the arm and leads him to the rows of lockers: “Well,” she says, “Choose the locker that you like best.” The child has a crisis on his face, a slight insanity, then he casts a sad look at his mother and stretches out his hand to the cabinet “with a pear”. Then everyone went nuts: He climbs into the locker, timidly closes the door behind him and says, “Goodbye, Mom...”
They bring furniture into the client's apartment. The first mover brought in the parts, the client gave him a blowjob in gratitude. The second loader brought in the details, the client gave him a blowjob in gratitude. The driver also wanted it, the client brought in the details for him a hundred rubles - she drove indignantly, well? Client: -The husband told the driver to suck the rest of the hundred.
- Mom, why do the boys in the yard call me “Excavator”??? - Shut up! - You'll scratch the furniture!
Chukchi bought a wardrobe with an internal mirror. He opens it at home: “Wife, look, my brother has come to see me!” The wife comes up: “And there’s some kind of woman with him...”
Leather furniture “Mozart” will creak for you the most famous melodies of the great author.
A man bought furniture. Trying to drag him through the staircase door into the apartment. The sofa is stuck. A neighbor comes out onto the site. - Listen, neighbor, help me move this damn sofa. The two of them began to drag. They puff, they struggle, the sofa doesn’t move. The one who bought: - Okay, that's enough. I feel like we'll never get him through. Neighbor: - Shall we drag it in?!
-What is a wardrobe? -This is when you open the closet and nothing falls out.
- Hello! This is a restaurant? - Yes, hello. – We would like to reserve a table with you for seven o’clock. - Fine. Will you order chairs?
My wife went on a business trip and comes back, and there are empty bottles in the rooms instead of furniture. Wife: – Where is the furniture??? - Sold! -Where is the money? - In bags! -Where are the bags? - Under the eyes!
SMS message: “The neighbor bought furniture. Tonight I will come to strangle you. Signed: Toad”
The phone rings in the restaurant. — Can I order one table from you? The administrator mutters through clenched teeth: “How many times have I told you that we don’t sell furniture here!”
Motto in a furniture store: A high-quality office table simply must withstand two...
The woman called a locksmith. – You see, something happened to my closet. When a tram passes on the street, the doors fly off their hinges. Maybe the hinges should be replaced or tightened? The locksmith took off his shoes, climbed into the closet and waited for the tram to understand what was going on. Suddenly my husband came. He sees men's shoes, goes to the closet, opens the door and sees - man! -What are you doing here, you bastard? - I’ll be a bastard, master, you won’t believe it - I’m waiting for the tram!
The guy is sick of bedbugs. One day he returns home from work drunk and angry. He looked at the sofa and slammed his fist on the table: “Come on, let’s all get out of here!” The bugs are frightened and head out the door in a chain. Only the smallest one constantly looks back from behind. The guy sobered up from such a picture and started laughing. The smallest bug, joyfully: - Guys! Let's go back, he was joking!
- Shop on the couch, restaurant on the couch, work on the couch, home on the couch, disco on the couch. Whole life on the couch! That’s how it is with us bedbugs...
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Types of furniture
Over the course of many millennia, humanity has come up with a huge number of types of furniture. Some of them are outdated and hardly used these days, others are still very popular.
The following types of furniture are distinguished:
- Seating furniture;
- Furniture for relaxation and sleep;
- Furniture for eating;
- Furniture for storing and storage of things;
- Other furniture.
Seating furniture items include:
- chair and armchair;
- bench, sofa and sofa;
- stool and pouf.
Furniture for relaxation and sleep includes:
- beds (single or two-tier, canopy, collapsible, folding, children's, water, inflatable);
- sofas;
- couches;
- hammocks.
Modern manufacturers also offer people a huge selection of all kinds of tables:
- kitchen;
- computer;
- magazine;
- billiard rooms;
- written;
- transformers.
The following furniture samples are used for storing things:
- cabinets, cupboards and cabinets;
- chests of drawers, sideboards and trellises;
- chests, racks and shelves;
- dressing table and shelves.
Other types of furniture include various screens and hangers.
25 facts about furniture 1
1. The oldest examples of furniture were found in Egypt in the burials of pharaohs, priests and nobles of the 3rd century. BC e. They are made of ebony and inlaid with ivory, malachite and turquoise. 2.Only in the 5th century. BC e. In ancient Greece, wood began to be used to make furniture; before that time, the Greeks made beds and benches from stone. The word "bed" comes from the Greek kline. The ancient Greeks called a room with many beds a polyclinic.
3. The ancient Romans are considered the inventors of upholstered furniture - it was they who began upholstering furniture with animal skins.
4.In the XVI-XVII centuries. French kings habitually received their subjects directly in their bedrooms, lying in beds decorated with a canopy. But in those days, the canopy served more for warmth than for beauty, since it was very cold in the palaces.
5.At the court of King Louis XIV, the opportunity to sit in the presence of the royal family was considered a special privilege. To make sitting not too comfortable, holders of the privilege were brought a stool. The court table of ranks even included the position of “stool bearer.”
6. Louis XIV also owned the largest collection of beds: he had 413 of them.
7. The bed of the European courtesan Marquise La Paiva, one of the brightest symbolic figures of the 19th century, had an area of 10 sq.m. And the largest bed was made in the late 90s of the twentieth century in the Netherlands: its length was 5.79 m and its width was 3.81 m.
8. First there was a chair, then a bed appeared, the third invention of furniture was the wardrobe. The “ancestors” of modern cabinets were ordinary chests, which gradually grew in height. It is believed that the first cabinets appeared in feudal Europe, from where they spread throughout the world. Medieval cabinets looked like copies of castles, turrets, columns and even wooden sculptures.
9.Today it is difficult to find out who invented the wardrobe. Most often, the authorship of such cabinets is attributed to Napoleon, who ordered the organization of sliding screens in the small apartments of officers, behind which the uniform was hidden. Thanks to this, the housing was kept clean and tidy, and the uniforms were in excellent condition.
10.The chest of drawers, the so-called “drawer on a drawer,” was invented a little over 300 years ago by the American Thomas Elf, a legend in furniture production. In his hometown of Charleston, wealthy people often moved into summer or winter homes depending on the season. And it is easier to move three small cabinet parts than one large one.
11.The high bar counter and bar stools also first appeared in the Wild West. This stand acted as a protective barrier and saved the owner from bullets. The bar stools matched the bar counter. They provided an opportunity to quickly knock back a glass, look at the range of alcoholic drinks and chat with the bartender.
12.The first writing desk appeared in the 17th century. The drawers in it were located below the tabletop, so you had to stand up at such a table. And only after some time the craftsmen moved the boxes to the side.
13.The first attempt to create inflatable furniture was made back in 1895. A certain Linford Root tried, as an experiment, to inflate mattresses on hard shelves in sleeping cars of trains with steam. But the idea had to be quickly abandoned: mattresses inflated with hot steam quickly failed and, bursting, burned passengers.
14. In 1911, the famous Thomas Edison introduced concrete furniture to everyone, about which he proudly said that such furniture could be as beautiful as wooden furniture, and at the same time it was much cheaper. But except for the inventor, no one was delighted with concrete interior items.
15. A friend of Mark Twain once complained to the writer that he was afraid to sleep because it always seemed to him that there was someone under the bed. “Don’t be afraid,” advised Mark Twain. “They just drank the legs by the bed.”
16. For his cover, the famous mafioso Al Capone sold wooden furniture - beds, wardrobes, sets, chests of drawers, as well as parts for stair railings. His business card read: Alfonso Capone, antique furniture dealer.
17.Furniture has long attracted the attention of famous architects and artists. The chairs were designed by Francesco Rastrelli, Antonio Rinaldi, and Charles Cameron. The great artist Salvador Dali created a sofa in the shape of the lips of the outrageous movie star Mae West. In 1988, this sofa was sold for 90 thousand euros at Sotheby's auction.
18. Selling furniture using a catalog was invented by Thomas Chippendale. In 1754, he published a luxurious catalog containing 160 engravings and the first description of the five classical movements in architecture and furniture. The book was intended to shape the taste of aristocrats, but the instructions were aimed at cabinetmakers.
19.The most expensive piece of furniture is considered to be the Badminton office bureau, created in the 18th century. Its value in December 2004 was US$19,045,250. Previously, in 1990, the bureau was purchased for a record $15,178,020. Badminton was paid for from the personal funds of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein.
20. Singer John Lennon's favorite color was white. It was with this color that he tried to surround everything around him: his apartment was absolutely all snow-white - from the walls to the furniture and carpets. 21.In Moscow, in Mayakovsky Lane, the Furniture Museum is located. At its entrance stands the Monument to the first stool of the Russian land, the height of which is 3 m. And in the American state of Ohio, in memory of the distant past, a stone monument to the bed was erected.
22.The first bed that flies in the air was invented by the Dutchman Janjaapom Ruijssenaar. The effect of its hovering between the floor and the ceiling is achieved through powerful magnets built into the bed body. This bed can withstand a weight of more than 900 kg.
23.9 years ago, Englishman Gavin Monroe founded furniture by planting the first 3,000 trees. To do this, the ends of young trees are cut off and the branches are connected into a single structure. When the trunk gets stronger, the frame is removed. Each product contains, on average, 10 branches and 100 shoots. Depending on the tree, the chair is “grown” in 2-4 years. Now the furniture factory annually produces about 50 units of finished products of 400 items.
24.Dutch designer Mario Philippona developed a model of furniture of an erotic nature, in the form of a female body. Tables with feminine legs and cabinets with huge breasts are popular with some buyers.
25. Designers believe that the future lies with “smart” furniture. In 2008, engineer Steve Norris invented the RoboStool robotic ottoman, which independently moves around the user's apartment.
In the dictionary Synonyms 4
boudoir, boulevard, buffet, bureau, wardrobe, set, slide, sofa, jacob, jardiniere, canapé, cornice, rocking chair, cradle, chest of drawers, desk, chair, bed, kitchen, couch, lounger, longchair, cradle, furniture, furnishings, set, furnishings, office furniture, ottoman, desk, shelf, sedan chair, pouf, secretary, sideboard, bench, sofa, rack, wall, table, chair, stool, stool, ottoman, trestle bed, trellis, tripod, tripod, tribune, dressing table, toilet, bedside table, corner, hepwhite, chippendale, chaise longue, Sheraton, screen, wardrobe, wardrobe, wardrobe, bookcase
In the Dictionary of Synonyms
furniture, furnishings; screen, chair, kitchen, slide, tribune, wardrobe, bench, dressing table, ottoman, secretary, set, bed, stool, sideboard, office furniture, pouf, boudoir, wardrobe, cradle, table, corner, stool, trestle bed, sofa, lounger, rack, desk, couch, bookcase, chaise longue, wardrobe, hepwhite, jacob, boule, sheraton, buffet, chippendale, bureau, cornice, tripod, furniture, chair, bedside table, chest of drawers, wall, desk, shelf, trellis, rocking chair, tripod, sofa, jardiniere, sedan chair, cradle, ottoman, wardrobe, longchair, toilet, sofa, set
In Dahl's dictionary
and. French standing utensils in the house; smart outfit; tables, benches, chairs, cabinets, etc. Furniture related to it. - master, - chintz. Furniture maker, female worker who makes furniture himself, a carpenter; owner of a furniture workshop or shop owner. -kov, -tsyn, him, belonging to her. Furnish the house, clean, supply with utensils; dress up. -sya, be furnished; | furnish your own home. Furnishing Wed. duration -rovka w. about. valid by value verb -digger m. -shchitsa f. who earns a living by cleaning rooms and keeping them fully dressed.
Promotion of furniture in social networks and online stores
If you are not on the Internet, then you do not exist. Bill Gates
If you look at thematic communities on social networks, in 8 out of 10 cases we will see only bright designer photos. Of course, photographs are important. But how do you want to sell with them?
Bright photos convert only hot clients. A person wants to buy a wardrobe, scrolls through his Instagram or VK feed, sees the option he needs, and orders it. If he didn’t plan to order here and now, then we won’t be able to catch this visitor. With such a sales funnel, the customer value is very high.
But you can do it differently. We are preparing a pool of useful articles, for example:
- How to choose furniture for a small room: 9 examples with photos
- 10 ideas for arranging a kitchen in Khrushchev.
- Designer tips. What furniture to choose to expand the space.
The list of ideas goes on.
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