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Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, eating and/or working with an item, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).

Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards, shelves, and drawers).

Furniture can be a product of design and can be 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 a vast multitude of materials, including metal, plastic, and wood.

Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflects the local culture.

Basic form of the console table.

The bracket supports are frequently highly decorative.

Console tables serving as pier tables underneath pier glasses, Denmark.

A gilded Baroque table, with a stone top (most probably marble), from the Cinquantenaire Museum (Brussels, Belgium).

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a of lignin that resists compression.

Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs.

In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves.

It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots.

Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or woodchips or fiber.

Three versions of Marcel Breuer's "Wassily Chair".

Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th century through the present that is influenced by modernism.

Post-World War II ideals of cutting excess, commodification, and practicality of materials in design heavily influenced the aesthetic of the furniture.

It was a tremendous departure from all furniture design that had gone before it.

There was an opposition to the decorative arts, which included Art Nouveau, Neoclassical, and Victorian styles.

Dark or gilded carved wood and richly patterned fabrics gave way to the glittering simplicity and geometry of polished metal.

The forms of furniture evolved from visually heavy to visually light.

This shift from decorative to minimalist principles of design can be attributed to the introduction of new technology, changes in philosophy, and the influences of the principles of architecture.

As Philip Johnson, the founder of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art articulates: