Furniture: Making it Movable in a Movable Society

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The paper studies people's changing method of furniture buying as society's tastes change. Society today is very different than what it was thirty years ago. Our tastes today are very mobile, and hence, furniture is reflecting this notion. The paper shows that as technology has advanced our society, our tastes have also changed and these tastes further affect what the general public wants as far as art, film, and furniture. The paper explores how the growing aspect of technology today has influenced manufactures to develop furniture with interchangeable parts, as well as furniture that is flexible, easier to move, assemble, and reassemble. All of these factors also assist people with saving space within their living quarters as well as moving their furniture more easily. The paper explores the use of plywood and the need of saving time and space.

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"The formation of plywood in layers permits it to be bent into curved shapes by stretching and compression under heat or steam. Again, this permits people in our ever-moving society to skew their furniture to fit their needs. For the piece that forms the continuous back and seat of a chair it can be used as thin as a quarter-of-an-inch. Because of the cross-grained lamination, expansion and contraction under changes of heat or humidity become negligible. Nor can plywood split or warp under normal conditions."

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