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    Chairs have a long history, dating back to ancient Egypt where they were used by the wealthy and as a symbol of authority. They became more common in Europe during the Renaissance when they stopped being a privilege of nobility and higher classes. In the 19th century, chairs became standard furniture in American households as they became more widely manufactured through factories. The 20th century saw innovations in chair construction materials and designs, including the introduction of recliners and ergonomic chairs, as well as new modern designs in the 1960s that used new materials like molded plywood and polymers.

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    Chairs have a long history, dating back to ancient Egypt where they were used by the wealthy and as a symbol of authority. They became more common in Europe during the Renaissance when they stopped being a privilege of nobility and higher classes. In the 19th century, chairs became standard furniture in American households as they became more widely manufactured through factories. The 20th century saw innovations in chair construction materials and designs, including the introduction of recliners and ergonomic chairs, as well as new modern designs in the 1960s that used new materials like molded plywood and polymers.

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    Chairs have a long history, dating back to ancient Egypt where they were used by the wealthy and as a symbol of authority. They became more common in Europe during the Renaissance when they stopped being a privilege of nobility and higher classes. In the 19th century, chairs became standard furniture in American households as they became more widely manufactured through factories. The 20th century saw innovations in chair construction materials and designs, including the introduction of recliners and ergonomic chairs, as well as new modern designs in the 1960s that used new materials like molded plywood and polymers.

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    Main article: History of the chair

    Five three-legged chairs around a low-legged table from Sliven 19th Century Lifestyle Museum
    Early twentieth century chair made in eastern Australia, with strong heraldic embellishment
    The chair is known for its antiquity and simplicity, although for many centuries it was an article
    of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. "The chair" is still extensively used as
    the emblem of authority in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and Canada, and in
    many other settings.
    Committees, boards of directors, and academic departments all have a 'chairman'. Endowed
    professorships are referred to as chairs.
    In fact, it was not until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. Until then the chest,
    the bench and the stool were the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which
    have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most examples are of ecclesiastical or
    seigneurial origin.Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity is derived almost entirely
    from monuments, sculpture and paintings.
    Chairs were in existence since at least the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. They were covered
    with cloth or leather, were made of carved wood and were much lower than todays chairs, chair
    seats were sometimes only 25 cm high.In ancient Egypt chairs appear to have been of great
    richness and splendor. Fashioned of ebony and ivory, or of carved and gilded wood, they were
    covered with costly materials, magnificent patterns and supported upon representations of the
    legs of beasts or the figures of captives.Generally speaking, the higher ranked an individual was,
    the taller and more sumptuous was the chair he sat on and the greater the honor. On state
    occasions the pharaoh sat on a throne, often with a little footstool in front of it.
    The average Egyptian family seldom had chairs, and if they did, it was usually only the master of
    the household who sat on a chair. Among the better off, the chairs might be painted to look like
    the ornate inlaid and carved chairs of the rich, but the craftsmanship was usually poor.
    The earliest images of chairs in China are from sixth-century Buddhist murals and stele, but the
    practice of sitting in chairs at that time was rare. It was not until the twelfth century that chairs
    became widespread in China. Scholars disagree on the reasons for the adoption of the chair. The
    most common theories are that the chair was an outgrowth of indigenous Chinese furniture, that
    it evolved from a camp stool imported from Central Asia, that it was introduced to China by
    Christian missionaries in the seventh century, and that the chair came to China from India as a
    form of Buddhist monastic furniture. In modern China, unlike Korea or Japan, it is no longer
    common to sit at floor level.
    In Europe, it was owing in great measure to the Renaissance that the chair ceased to be a
    privilege of state, and became a standard item of furniture for anyone who could afford to buy it.

    Once the idea of privilege faded the chair speedily came into general use. We find almost at once
    that the chair began to change every few years to reflect the fashions of the day.
    In the 1880s, chairs became more common in American households and usually there was a chair
    provided for every family member to sit down to dinner. By the 1830s, factory-manufactured
    fancy chairs like those by Sears. Roebuck, and Co. allowed families to purchase machined
    sets. With the Industrial Revolution, chairs became much more available.
    The 20th century saw an increasing use of technology in chair construction with such things as
    all-metal folding chairs, metal-legged chairs, the Slumber Chair,[citation needed] moulded
    plastic chairsand ergonomic chairs. The recliner became a popular form, at least in part due to
    radio and television.
    The modern movement of the 1960s produced new forms of chairs: the butterfly chair (originally
    called the Hardoy chair), bean bags, and the egg-shaped pod chair that turns. Technological
    advances led to molded plywood and wood laminate chairs, as well as chairs made of leather or
    polymers. Mechanical technology incorporated into the chair enabled adjustable chairs,
    especially for office use. Motors embedded in the chair resulted in massage chairs.

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