The examples to be discussed are Tutankhamen’s Ceremonial Chair form Ancient Egypt, the Klismos Chair from Ancient Greece and the ‘Sella Curulis’ (a folding chair) from Ancient Rome. These examples have been chosen, because they demonstrate well the traits, culture and daily life of their particular nation. They also give very good insight into how the people who made the chairs approached design and how the different surrounding that these designers were in influenced their decisions.

The examples will be analysed and placed in context each separately, with attention brought to their own individual features, styles and the reasoning behind them.

The first example to be discussed is

The coned seat of the throne was supported by legs shaped as an animals paw, a

The chair is very formal; it is just a straight solid back, with arm supports, not very comfortable and no use of ergonomics. The Egyptian chairs stayed like that for years. They did not evolve their designs. Instead they followed a ‘set of rules’ as to how things were done and things were done all to the proportion of the body and a set of stylized fashions.

Tutankhamen’s Ceremonial Chair, from Ancient Egypt. This chair was found in the elaborate burial chamber of Tutankhamen who was a pharaoh (i.e. ruler) in Ancient Egypt. The Egyptian society was one of a strong hierarchy and the pharaoh was the most important, in fact the Egyptians even believed him to be a god. They also were obsessed with the after life and believed people needed their earthy possessions for this after life, hence burying it with them.

(Online: MSN: Encarta). They also believed strongly in pleasing their wide variety of gods through sacrifices and rituals. This is what they lived for.

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