Ancient Egypt Greece and Rome

This example is made of wood and leather strips. Criss-cross webbing were used for the weaving of the seats (Connolly, 2001:29). The joints are of morts and tennon joints (Brunt, 1985:51).These chairs are essentially plain and are not really linked to any particular status or power. Rather they are more functional. They do not have the animal designs that were traditional at that time, in fact these chairs had no colour and no other decoration added.

In conclusion one can see that the Roman and Greek chair are closely liked with their constantly developing styles, but on the other hand the Egyptians have a totally different approach. They don"tmt develop their chairs at all; instead they stuck to what they had always done. The Egyptian designers, one can witness, were not at all concerned with the comfort of the sitter. Their main priority was religious. Displaying the right symbols, pictures and status. While the Greeks main priority when it came to their chairs was comfort and ergonomics. They angled the back rest and gave the Klismos chair a feminine form, because of who used it and generally were a lot more practical in their design. Then the Romans they were also very practical, especially with the folding chair, but they made their designs more complicated than the Greeks and more decorated. Although not as symbolic as the Egyptians.

lion"tms in this example. These are powerful creatures that demanded respect. So these shapes on this chair was to show that power and authority and to further represent this there is two lions heads on the throne as well (Brunt,1985:44).