Ancient Greek Furnitures

Ancient Greek Furnitures


Μost information about ancient Greek furniture come from the representations that occur on the hundreds and thousands of vase paintings and reliefs from the 8th century BC down that have come to light. Ancient Greek furniture consisted of various kinds of stools, couches, tables and chests.
One basic category of ancient furniture were the various types of seats: the throne, usually provided with back and armrests, klismos, the light easy chair with curving back but without supports for the arms, thedifros, the backless stool with four perpendicular or crossed legs and the bench on which several people could seat. Very important furniture were the trapeza, which is the table, as well as the bed, thekline, and finally an amount of boxes for things to store, kibotia. The ancient names of all these furniture can be ascertained through the inscriptions and the mention of them by Greek writers from Homer down.



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Difros Okladias Stool Animal Legs

Made of Greek walnut with crossed animal legs. Seat made of one piece of leather and loose cushion...

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Difros Stool

Made of Greek walnut with four legs. Leather thongs on seat and loose cushion. Design taken from a..

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Difros Stool Round Legs

The Greek diphros according to ancient Greek literature seems to have served both as a humble stoo..

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Difros Stool With Square Crafted Legs

Made of Greek walnut with four legs. Leather thongs on seat and loose cushion. Design taken from a..

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klismos

Klismos chair is Made of Greek walnut. Back constructed with three pieces of walnut dowelled toge..

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klismos chair No3

A welcoming klismos armchair with maximum comfort, which stands out for its measured proportions bet..

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klismos chair No5

A welcoming klismos armchair with maximum comfort, which stands out for its measured proportions bet..

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klismos Armchair

Similar with the chair Klismos but with arms. Klismos chair is Made of Greek walnut. Ba..

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klismos Hegeso chair

klismos (Greek: κλισμός) or klismos chair is a type of ancient Greek chair, with curved backrest a..

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klismos Leather chair

A welcoming klismos armchair with maximum comfort, which stands out for its measured proportions bet..

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klismos Leather chair No2

A welcoming klismos armchair with maximum comfort, which stands out for its measured proportions bet..

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Klismos Slipper Chairs

A welcoming klismos armchair with maximum comfort, which stands out for its measured proportions bet..

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Trapeza Side Table

Made of Greek walnut with three legs. Design taken from a lekanis circa 400 B.C. in the Hermitage,..

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Ancient Greek Console

The ancient Greek console. The unique technique applied makes  it a piece that you will have ..

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Ancient Greek Console No2

The ancient Greek console. The unique technique applied makes  it a piece that you will have ..

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