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Antiques - Antique Furniture
The civilization of very early humans, called nomads, created "homes" and established communities, which in turn created the need for furniture.
This people are the earliest gypsies moving from location to location and sustaining on what is readily available in their surroundings. Eventually, their need for community work grew and much of their survival hunting activities ceased as they learned to cultivate the soil.
Houses were simple huts of wood and reed, perhaps daubed with clay or mud, and later of stone and baked clay bricks. And there are no elaborate or decorative furnishings; furniture to them was no more than a slob of log to sit on. It was a necessity but rather not being essential. After all, they can always trust the nature to provide for their basic needs including the vastness of earth's grounds to sit down and idle by.
The earliest furniture was understandably very primitive as it was practical. As people began to see its importance, they also felt the need to have them decorated. Even, wealthy homeowners became more cultured and made sure that their furnishings reflect their status and lifestyles.
Authentic antique furnishings are deemed treasures of the modern times. The likes of Assyrian, Egyptian, Roman, and Greek early civilizations have remarkable furniture produce like surviving works from the 9th-8th-century B.C. Assyrian palace of Nimrud.
There are tables and inlaid serving stands dated 8th-century B.C. of the Phrygian tumulus, the Midas Mound, in Gordion, Turkey origin. Ancient Egyptian furniture includes a 3rd millenium B.C. bed discovered in the Tarkhan Tomb, a c. 1550 B.C. stool from Thebes, and a c.2550 B.C. gilded set from the tomb of Queen Hetepheres.
Ancient Greek furniture design beginning in the 2nd millennium B.C., including beds, chairs and images on Greek vases. The 1738 and 1748 excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii introduced Roman furniture, preserved in the ashes of the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius, to the eighteenth century.
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