One of the first human inventions was the stool. It is she, along with the bed and the table, who is the progenitor of all that we are sitting on now. Before ancient man came up with a stool, he sat on the ground. When people realized that it was cold and damp on the ground, they began to put skins, bundles of grass or branches under them. The prototype of the chair was a log. But since it rolls around, someone thought of chopping it into pieces and sitting on the resulting log. Such a block was not very easy to carry from place to place, and they began to cut off unnecessary parts from the sides or bottom, so that at the same time it remained stable. Stools are backless chairs or short benches for only one person only. In confined spaces in rooms, they are the most suitable furniture products, they take up little space. Similar to a stool, a wooden block is considered, it can act as seats or tables. It is made industrially from a debarked cedar, oak, or birch trunk. The shape of a barrel is often used in their work by modern designers. It is very comfortable to sit on a log that is placed on the butt, but it is difficult to drag it. To make the stump lighter, grind its middle. This is how the stools have a “waist” that is very comfortable to grasp. Similar patterns are still found among African tribes. Models with chiseled silhouettes look great in absolutely any interior - both classic and modern.
The oldest specimens found on stools date back to around 3000 BC. It was these ancient stools that later became the progenitors of chairs.
In Ancient Egypt, wood was actively used for the manufacture of furniture, including stools. Even kings and pharaohs used stools in those days. Moreover, not only ordinary, but also folding stools were in use, the seats of which were made of wood, and the legs resembled hooves and were made of elephant tusks.
Ancient samples of wooden furniture have been found in Egyptian burials, which are more than 5 thousand years old. The craftsmen of those times did not know lathes and owned frame-paneled viscous structures. Chiseled furniture appeared much later in Mesopotamia. Because the tree rots, then the Egyptian finds have great luck. Among the more noble and important furniture was a simple stool that went through all eras and styles. At all times, artists, woodcarvers and architects have made changes in its design and shape.
During the First Dynasty, the stool served as a throne for the pharaohs. But the pharaohs of the Second Dynasty already had thrones with a back, and the stool faded into the background.
A little later, all the furniture makers from the bank of the Nile pulled a mat between the supports. Under the weight of the seated person, she begins to deform exactly as necessary. And the stability of this structure will provide an x-shaped base.
The Romans made the mounts movable - this is how folding stools appear. Portable folding chairs followed the senators to various meeting rooms. Later they were transformed into camping chairs, from which the director's chairs also originated.
Even later, a saddle-shaped form appears, peeped from the nomads. The representative of the steppe peoples, in order not to sit on the cold ground, used the harness removed from the horses as a seat. In the middle of the last century, Achille Castiglioni was the very first to remove the seat from the bicycle and put it on a steel rod with a stand - it turned out to be a stool. The shape of the saddle stool has been favorably approved by physiotherapists because it allows you to redistribute the load from the lumbar spine to the ischial bone. Therefore, there is no need to lean on the backs of chairs.
Gothic stools can be seen in medieval miniatures and paintings by old masters. Such a stool can be seen in one of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum. It is a seat, located on two legs-struts, carved, wide and flat. At the bottom there is one crossbar, two more carved crossbars are located under the seat. The entire structure was assembled without a single nail.
Mass production of stools began in the 30s of the last century. In those years, the ingenious simplicity of the stools, bordering on perfection, conquered many - the round seat and the plywood legs in the shape of the letter "L" were the height of grace. And thanks to the simple technology and the minimum number of parts, the production of stools was very cheap. Historians find symbolic features in such a stool. For example, a round wooden seat symbolizes the sun, and the legs of a stool represent rays. Thus, a sun appeared in the house, one frost. In addition, the environmental friendliness of such furniture is a big plus. Moreover, these stools are easy to store. They can simply be stacked one on top of the other and put away in the closet.
In the French court, luxurious, silk-covered chairs played an important role in palace ritual. At the royal reception, everyone was required to stand. Only a few of the ladies of the court were granted by the king the “right of a stool,” that is, the right to sit in his presence.
A miracle of folk design thought - a one-legged stool with straps for tying around the waist. When a lazy shepherd grazed his goats on the slope, he did not even need to take a stool in his hands - he constantly carried it on himself, and stopping to sit down, he simply stuck his leg into the ground.
Well, it's hard not to remember the stool in connection with the work of Ilf and Petrov, from whose light hand the moonshine got another name - stool. In their novels, there is a constant opposition of a noble chair to a prosaic stool. The stool becomes a social detail describing office life.
Stools are very popular to this day, and the variety of shapes, sizes and colors is simply amazing.
Stools are the largest group of furniture items. Now stools are almost any seat without backs and armrests. A modern stool is made from a wide variety of materials (wood, plastic, metal, leather, fabric, etc.). A soft and hard stool is produced, with a round, square or rectangular seat, which rests on 3 - 4 legs and stands on two frames.
A separate category is made up of "one-legged", the so-called screw chairs on a single central support. Very often they rotate, and some of them are also able to rise to a height from the traditional 40 cm to 80-85 cm. Of course, bar chairs are a special variety.
Modern stools are bright, colorful, functional pieces that can transform the interior of any kitchen. For this, the choice of a stool for the kitchen or living room should always be approached with special attention, since they should ideally fit into the design idea of the room.
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Stools are the same chairs that were invented by primitive people for convenience and placement after hunting. At that time, people still did not understand much about the beauty of design and decoration of dwellings. For them, the most important criterion was convenience. The first stools and chairs, in the form in which we perceive them, appeared in Ancient Egypt. At the same time, only people belonging to the upper classes, priests, pharaohs, in a word, all those who were in the rank of gods or close to them, could sit on chairs. History counts many civilizations in which chairs were an unprecedented luxury. Even in the 19th century, in Russian houses, benches were used, on which several people were sitting.
Today, the kitchen stool is the most common type of stool used in household use. And if 20 years ago, stools for kitchen exactly the same, today the choice is very large and their design boggles the imagination.
The assortment of our catalog, which includes stools for the kitchen, is very wide. Whatever your interior, whatever furniture is installed, you can always choose them in accordance with the shape and color of the rest of the elements. If you prefer to buy stools outside the dining group, then most likely the criteria for your choice will be based on such parameters as ergonomics, color, shape and price. As you can see, this is no longer enough.
Everything for your convenience.
Sometimes wooden stools for the kitchen come with soft upholstery on the seat, this will add comfort to the kitchen, since textiles always bring notes of home comfort.
When choosing stools, people often look at the price. This point is very controversial, no matter what, you must first of all choose a quality product. A lot of people, grabbing at cheap goods, buy goods that later do not bring any benefit, and in the worst case, can do harm. Therefore, if you decide to buy stools, carefully look at the material from which they are made. Using our website, you can buy stools at the most attractive prices, but the quality of our furniture is guaranteed. We have a wide range of stools and chairs that will perfectly fit into your interior and highlight the good taste of the hostess. Almost all models of kitchen stools are covered with water and dirt-repellent fabric upholstery. This is a very big plus if you have small children in your home.
Stool care.
Wooden stools are easy to care for. Since all furniture in the kitchen from time to time gets dirty with a coating of grease and dust, it is necessary to wipe them from time to time with a damp cloth. For stubborn dirt, you can use a soap solution.
Also, it is necessary to observe the measures for the maintenance of furniture, monitor the humidity of the air, from which it can subsequently swell. To do this, you can use an air dryer.
Stools very well complement the interior of the kitchen, so they can rightfully be considered a piece of furniture that is indispensable in any home.
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Stools are made of wood, metal, plastic, chipboard, MDF, plywood and other materials. The stool seat can be either rigid (including lining made of abrasion-resistant material, such as plastic), and a soft element with fabric or leather upholstery.
Design features
The main parts of the stool are the leg (support) and the seat. The legs of the stool can be connected with each other by the upper drawers and additionally by the lower legs.
Types of stools by functional purpose
- kitchen stool- a stool designed for work in the kitchen.
- for tourists- a folding stool with a light, sturdy base, resistant to moisture and heat (aluminum tubes, etc.).
- bar stool- high stools with foot support.
- for playing a musical instrument- stools, with a rotating, height-adjustable seat.
- special purpose- designed for a certain type of work, and having specific features (size, strength indicators, coatings).
In Moscow, on Taganskaya Street, there is a monument to a stool: since April 3, 2007, the Museum of Furniture is located in the former estate of the Arshenevsky brothers, in front of which there is a three-meter monument to a stool.
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Russian military historians, insofar as logic is obligatory for them, involuntarily come to this conclusion and, despite lyrical appeals about courage and loyalty, etc., must involuntarily admit that the French retreat from Moscow is a series of Napoleon's victories and Kutuzov's defeats.But, leaving completely aside the people's pride, one feels that this conclusion in itself contains contradictions, since a series of French victories led them to complete destruction, and a series of Russian defeats led them to the complete destruction of the enemy and the purification of their fatherland.
The source of this contradiction lies in the fact that historians who study events from the letters of sovereigns and generals, according to reports, reports, plans, etc., have suggested a false, never existed goal of the last period of the war of 1812 - a goal that supposedly consisted of to cut off and catch Napoleon with the marshals and the army.
This goal never was and could not be, because it did not make sense, and its achievement was completely impossible.
This goal did not make any sense, firstly, because the upset army of Napoleon fled from Russia as quickly as possible, that is, it was doing what any Russian could want. Why was it necessary to carry out various operations on the French, who fled as fast as they could?
Secondly, it was pointless to stand on the road of people who directed all their energy to escape.
Thirdly, it was pointless to lose their troops to destroy the French armies, which were destroyed without external reasons in such a progression that, without any obstruction of the path, they could not transfer more than what they transferred in December, that is, one hundredth of the entire army, across the border.
Fourthly, it was senseless to desire to take prisoner the emperor, kings, dukes - people whose captivity would greatly impede the actions of the Russians, as recognized by the most skillful diplomats of that time (J. Maistre and others). Even more senseless was the desire to take the French corps, when their troops melted by half to the Red, and the convoy divisions had to be separated to the prisoners' corps, and when their soldiers did not always receive full provisions and the captured prisoners died of hunger.
The whole thoughtful plan to cut off and catch Napoleon and the army was similar to the plan of a gardener who, driving the cattle that had trampled his ridges out of the garden, would run to the gate and begin to beat this cattle on the head. One thing that could be said to justify the gardener would be that he was very angry. But this could not even be said about the authors of the project, because they were not the ones who suffered from the trampled ridges.
In ancient times, making furniture was equated with art. Original and high-quality pieces of furniture were available only to noble families with high incomes, the poor residents of cities and rural areas were content with only a minimal set of the most primitive furniture.
Modern furniture is able to find its admirers with a wide variety of incomes. Today I helped to choose and then order stylish chairs, which in itself was very exciting. Modern masters easily transfer the ideas of the past to the present, complement them with modern materials and after a while, our stylish butts sit comfortably on stylish chairs. Therefore, it is quite logical that I have a question, what is the history of the chair?
The history of the chair originated in ancient Egypt. At that time, there were no chairs in the form that is offered by manufacturers today. According to one legend, during the burial of the pharaoh, one of his subjects fell from an uncomfortable bench, which led to the development of new chairs with handles and backs. But such chairs played the role of a throne for wealthy people and pharaohs. The throne was comfortable enough for every ruler of the country to purchase such furniture for himself. Then the chair became an integral part of every wealthy family.
In Greece, the chair served only for women and children, and during small talk and feasts, men preferred to lie on couches. And in Rome, folding chairs already existed. Each member of a noble family had to bring such a chair with him to feasts or meetings. The lowest chair with rich decoration was the privilege of only the most respected citizens of the country. The head of the family had a special throne on which he received guests and sat during a meal.
In Europe, peculiar chairs were made for the royal family, I would say very original, with different pillows on the seats, noble courtiers sat on richly decorated seats, and the lower classes sat on small folding chairs. At the same time, the servants did not have the right to sit on the chair, it was strictly forbidden. Manufacturers of such furniture did not focus on comfort and convenience, but on rich design and stately dimensions. For this reason, the use of such chairs became a real torture for those sitting.
It wasn't until the end of the seventeenth century that the chair became a comfortable piece of furniture. They began to make sun loungers, which were used as loungers and as chairs. This piece of furniture was either solid or consisted of an upholstered chair and a footrest. But the chair was still used by secular youth in an unusual way. The men sat on a chair backwards in order not to wrinkle their tailcoat.
In the middle of the last century, the chair began to enjoy popularity among the poor population. The chairs were made from cheap wood and without rich designs. Then the chair was supplemented with details from other materials. Modern manufacturers create chairs of different sizes and shapes, they are able to satisfy the needs and demands of any part of the population and any wallet.