Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping. Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground), or to store things.
Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. It can be made from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflect the local culture.
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... The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers commonly referred to as the Furniture Makers or the Furniture Makers Company, is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London ... The Furniture Makers is the British furnishing industry’s central organisation, charity and patron ... to designers, craftsmen and manufacturers exhibiting the highest standards of British furniture production ...
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... All different type of woods have unique signature marks, that can help in easy identification of the type ... There are hardwoods and softwoods ...
Famous quotes containing the word furniture:
“An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also folding furniture and a complete camping outfit.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“There I was dragging the ocean, that knock-out,
in and out by its bottle-green neck, letting it chew
the rocks, letting it haul beach glass and furniture sticks
in and out.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)