VISD-3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Music Stand, Empire Style, Chaise

• School: OCAD University
• Department: Visual Culture - Design
• Course: VISD-3003
• Professor: Janna Eggebeen

Document Summary

Choose to study within the contents of the course. Ashurbanial and his queen in the garden, 647 bce: written language is invented. King and queen are easy to pick out. Just an individualized sense of power: animalistic legs of furniture, no surviving furniture from ancient sumerian, aspects of chairs are to show status, ordinary furniture aren"t representative in art, especially not survived now. Furniture and portable canopy 2575- 2557 bce: queen was the mother of someone who had the largest giza. Model of a mud house from a tomb, old kingdom, 2600 bce. Mainly things that were intentionally buried: were largely only royalties. Carpenter making a chair, 1479- 1400 bce. Tables and seats are low to the ground. Other postures are to have your legs up. Stool seats are form- fitting, reflective of body. Symbolic, high/ elite furniture have meaning to them: sema tawy, union symbol symbolizing upper/ lower egypt.