AN EVALUATION ON THE HISTORY OF FURNITURE AFTER THE INDUSTRUAL REVOLUTION

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 37 - 47, 25.12.2021

Okşan Ölmez İnci Versan Alkan

Abstract

Since prehistoric times, people have built shelters to survive and live in a sheltered place. In the built shelters, raised areas according to the needs, protrusions or hollows formed on the walls, softened and ovalized parts of natural materials; although we have not reached the present and do not see a precise example, it can be thought that it includes the first approaches that reveal the concept of furniture.
These furniture, which were originally produced to provide the needs in order to facilitate the living conditions, have become reflective of the socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural situation of the period. And its purpose produced of these furniture shows in connection with concepts such as showing status, power, wealth, divinity. With the development of tools and machines, furniture styles and models have changed with the increasing needs, and the artisans started to reflect their own style on the furniture by being influenced by the environment and the period they live in.
After the industrial revolution, the furniture, the use of furniture has become widespread, not only its handmade production but also with its ability to produce in factories and with providing cost less; diversified in form, function and material.
In this work, the movements emerging as reflections of changing thought systems with the development of furniture in history and the beginning of the industrial revolution and furniture styles, models and types that will change with the movements were examined.

Keywords

Furniture history, Industrial revolution, Movements, Design

References

• Reference1 VI. International Furniture Congress - Karadeniz Technical University