How did the concept of a chair come about?

Answer 1

after getting knee pain...

Answer 2

The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years 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 and in public meetings. It was not, in fact, until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most of such examples are of ecclesiastical or seigneurial origin. Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity is derived almost entirely from monuments, sculpture and paintings. A few actual examples exist in the British Museum, in the Egyptian museum at Cairo, and elsewhere.

In ancient Egypt chairs appear to have been of great richness and splendour. Fashioned of ebony and- ivory, or of carved and gilded wood, they were covered with costly materials and supported upon representations of the legs of beasts or the figures of captives. The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries before Christ, had a back but stood straight up, front and back. During Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), a higher seats first started to appear amongst the Chinese elite and their usage soon spread to all levels of society. By the 12th century seating on the floor was rare in China, unlike in other Asian countries where the custom continued, and the chair or more commonly the stool was used in the vast majority of houses throughout the country.

In Europe, it was owing in great measure to the Renaissance that the chair ceased to be a privilege of state, and became the customary companion of whomsoever could afford to buy it. Once the idea of privilege faded the chair speedily came into general use. We find almost at once began to change every few years to reflect the fashions of the hour

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, moulded plastic chairs and ergonomic chairs. The recliner (easy chair) became a popular form, at least in part due to radio and television, and later a two-part The modern movement of the 1960s produced new forms of chairs: the butterfly chair, Bean bags, the egg or pod chair. Technological advances led to molded plywood and laminate wood chairs, as well as chairs made of leather or polymers. Massage chairs are now sold and used in homes all over the world.

Answer 3

The great god ghuchigahima was all powerful and created god children every day about an hour after he ate. All his children were deformed. One day he found a magic stone with a hole in it, it looked comfortable and at that very moment he had to give birth again. So he sat on the hole in the magic stone and gave birth to a brown baby boy. ghuchigahima gave this idea of a magic hole stone to his creation, man, who took this idea and developed it into the furniture industry.

Or a cave man got tired and sat on a rock, and later when he got tired again and couldn't find a rock, made something that he could sit on. (sorry for ending a sentence in a preposition).

Answer 4

Hmmm, I think man got tired of squatting in caves, looked around, saw a big rock, and lo, the first chair!

Answer 5

People needed to change their light bulbs. So they built the chair to stand in.

Answer 6

Thomas Edison was tired to stay at his feet, so he invented the chair.
Or Nikola Tesla, may be... I'm not sure...

About Thomas Edison, see

http://www.thomasedison.com/

And about Nikola Tesla -
http://nippur.irb.hr/hrv/znanstvenici/tesla.html

Answer 7

Well, thousands of years ago, someone was starting to get tired of standing, so he/she decided to sit on the floor, but that wasn't comfortable, so he/she saw a large rock nearby, and decided to sit on it.

Answer 8

Austrilopithicus' wife saw one in Target and demanded one for the cave. Sure beats the divan they had been using...

Answer 9

it came from the chinese emporer... nasi goreng. his legs we're sore, and his **** was getting dirty from sitting on the ground

Answer 10

Bic, You get best answer from me.