Ancient Civilizations - Discussion

http://www.history1ah.blogspot.com/2014/01/ancient-egypt.html
http://www.history1hje.blogspot.com/2014/01/week-1-ancient-civilization-5000-bce.html

For my discussion post this week, I looked to Ariana's and Hannah's blog posts. 

I think Ariana made a really good point that when you hear "Egyptian style" you think of theme restaurants or really over-the-top furnishings. 

However, when you look back at the actual pieces discovered, the furniture did seem regal and sophisticated for the time, but not over done. It seems that some details that are commonly found in a time period are exaggerated when there is a revival of that style.


Also, Hannah pointed out the extensive use folding items in order to make them more portable. It was ingenious that they developed these pieces. The hinges and construction of folding items are far more complicated than simply building a traditional piece of furniture. The design insight to see how to transform a stationary object into a collapsed form, and then create the hinges and connections to achieve that is really spectacular.