he hunter-gatherer communities of the stone-age gradually began to acquire the skills of agriculture, and civilizations were born. From searching for food they began to produce food. They then began to look for comforts. Primitive and early civilization furniture was purely stone and sand in comfortable forms. They naturally used, supported, sat and slept on natural forms that suited the purpose. Man was not territory conscious then and when that evolved he began to move these pieces of wood and stone into his territory.  He then used one object against the other to break away portions that were not required to give him better comfort.
Tools were born. Thus started the wheel. He then carved, sculpted and broke everything to suit his greed and need.. Designing started. Ancient furniture was mostly wooden and stone.

The wooden ones have long since rotted away. Perhaps the earliest furniture in existence is that found at catalhuyuk in Turkey that dates around 3000 BC. The medieval time period (from the fall of the last Roman Emperor in 476 AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453) was the era in which furniture began to develop its wooden characteristics. Medieval furniture was primarily made of oak. Probably the most important piece of furniture then was the chest or coffer. Chests were originally made from hollow tree trunks banded with iron, hence the origin of the modern wood ‘trunk’ for travel cases.  The ‘cup-borde’ was made to store cups with shelves and doors. Beds in the Saxon time consisted of a board often placed in a recess hung above with curtain for warmth and privacy. The Normans brought with them from medieval France a more elaborate bed style where iron railings were used to hang the curtains. This gradually developed into the huge four-poster beds. Earlier beds were made of straw; it was in the 14th century that feather beds began to be used. The story of English furniture tradition and heritage is an interesting mirror of English history generally, was at first, little homegrown developments. In any interest there’s an assimilation of foreign influence and a flowering of great energy and creation spreading across the world until final decline. Brass beds were a staple in the modest form-of-the-century homes.

The glitter of tubular brass was meant to compensate for the lack of decoration.  Designs were conservative and the manufacturers tended to keep the same models in production for many years. Thanks to this journey, today INDeco Hotels  Swamimalai houses one of the Four Poster Luxury Brass Cot of the Raj Days (suite 119), which forms a part of The STEVE BORGIA INDIAN HERITAGE MUSEUM Interestingly, like yesteryears the typical English frilled laise decorates the cot.