- The average life-span of a sofa is 2,958 days (that’s roughly 8 years). The oldest bookcase in the world is located in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University – which is also one of the oldest libraries in Europe.
- After a house and a car, upholstery is usually the third most expensive item a person will buy during their lifetime.
- Have you ever wondered who invented the office chair? It was none-other than Charles Darwin in the 1800s, who added wheels to his chair to get around his study quicker.
- Throughout a sofa‘s life, it will host roughly 782 visitors.
- An average sofa is used as a place to sit while eating a meal 13 Xs a month. That translates into (1,261 meals over the sofa’s lifetime).
- The oldest known chairs were ceremonial furniture from Ancient Egypt 5,000 years ago.
- Chairs didn’t come into common use until the 16th century. Before then people sat on stones or wooden benches.
- Why do kings sit on thrones? In early history, chairs or thrones were generally used by people of higher society. People with less calibre sat on stools.
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