This is the current collaboration of the week! Please read the nomination text, and help improve it to featured article standard. This is an article about items in a room. For information about the UK band, see Furniture (band). Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. Furniture can be a product of artistic design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Domestic furniture works, in conjunction with furnishings such as clocks and lighting, to create comfortable and convenient interior spaces. Look up furniture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cabinetry is the term for the skillset used in the building of furniture. Contents 1 History of Furniture 2 Furniture design 3 Furniture types 4 See also 5 Selected bibliography 6 Related links History of Furniture Furniture has been a part of the human experience since non-nomadic cultures developed. Murals from Pompeii depict benches with decorative legs, and wall paintings and sculpture from Egypt show chairs, thrones and tables in use. Medieval furniture was often heavy and thick, but the Renaissance inspired an explosion of design in the field. By the late 20th century, application of varied materials, from glass to steel to plastics led to avant-garde styles. Further applications of cantilevering and wire tension structures also influenced furniture's development. In other schools of thought, the idea of harvesting and shaping wood to enhance and celebrate it's origins in the tree developed, especially as seen in the large fletch based tables of George Nakashima. Furniture design Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts movement Art Deco Bauhaus Gjernes Shakers Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture types Storage: Bookcase Cabinet (furniture) Chest China cabinet Cupboard Dresser (Chest of drawers) Filing cabinet Hall Tree Sideboard Wardrobe Seating: Bean bag bench Chair Couch Footstool Love seat Ottoman Recliner Settee Sofa Stool (type of chair) Surfaces: Coffee table Desk End table Folding table Table Sets: Bedroom set (group) Dinette (group) Dining set (group) Other: Aquarium furniture Bed Door furniture Headboard Hutch Park furniture Stadium seating Street furniture Lamps are covered under furnishings or lighting. See also Decorative art Furnishings History of decorative arts Study of decorative arts Selected bibliography Gloag, John. A Short Dictionary of Furniture. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 1965. Hayward, Charles H., Antique or Fake?: The Making of Old Furniture. London: Evans Brothers, 1971. Related links American Seating Bean bags Common Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum) Decorative art Herman Miller Tripod G-Plan Grand Rapids, Michigan (or Furniture City) Self-assembly furniture Steelcase Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture" Categories: Consumer goods | Furniture | Home | Industrial design