Romanesque

The Romanesque period had two different kinds of important chairs.  The first chair was know as the X-frame chair.  The X-frame chair already existed in Egypt, Nubia, Greece, and the Byzantine Empire.  Dagobert I was the ruler at this time and he loved metalwork.  He had an X-frame chair made for him out of metal.  It slightly resembles a sella curulis chair.  The second important chair was Charlemagne's throne.  It is mainly famous because it was Charlemagne's.  The chair was situated on a raised platform.  The height of it shows his authority and status.  Charlemagne was so important to history because of his success in creating a unified government.

Chests were still important to people at this time.  They used them to store household possessions.  The chest came in many forms and was considered a piece of luggage.  Most chests were made out of oak, walnut, poplar, and pine.  The most basic type of furniture is a chest.  Not only was the chest used for storage, but people in the Middle Ages designed it to have a work surface on top.  They also used these work surfaces for sitting, dining, or sometimes sleeping.  Footed chests were very desirable because they lifted contents off of the cold floor.  Large numbers of chests survived because the contents inside were considered valuable.  Chests that had flat bottoms and curved lids were used for transportation.  The curved lids helped prevent water for coming in.  In the Romanesque period furniture had to resist the unwanted intruder.  To tell that a chest came from the Romanesque period is if it has a semicircular arch.

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