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19th century drawing of ancient Romans on accubita. Accubitum (pl.: accubita) was one name for the ancient Roman furniture couches used in the time of the Roman emperors, in the triclinium or dining room, for reclining upon at meals. It was also sometimes the name of the dining room itself or a niche for a couch.
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, with reconstructed furniture [1] The bedroom without furniture, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A cubiculum (pl.: cubicula) was a private room in a domus, an ancient Roman house occupied by a
Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles , Palace of Fontainebleau , the Tuileries Palace , and other royal residences.
Roman furniture was based heavily on Greek furniture, in style and construction. Rome gradually superseded Greece as the foremost culture of Europe, leading eventually to Greece becoming a province of Rome in 146 BC. Rome thus took over production and distribution of Greek furniture, and the boundary between the two is blurred.
The most important source for wooden furniture of the Roman period is the collection of carbonized furniture from Herculaneum. While the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E. was tremendously destructive to the region, the pyroclastic surges that engulfed the town of Herculaneum ultimately preserved the wooden furniture, shelves, doors, and shutters ...
Middle-class and elite Roman houses usually had at least two triclinia; it is not unusual to find four or more. Here, the triclinium maius ("big dining room") would be used for larger dinner parties, which would typically include many clients of the owner. Smaller triclinia would be used for smaller dinner parties, with a more exclusive set of ...