Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . ith the furnishingand upholstering of to-day. For another, its naturepresents little that would be strange to us or thatwould require explanation. Among the most conspicuous differences betweenRoman and modern furnishing must be reckoned theabsence of carpets, the comparatively small use oftables and chairs, the absence of upholstery from suchchairs as were used, and the greater part played bycouches. In place of carpets there were the orna-mental floors, whether in geometrical pattern work,arrangements of veined marbles, or mosaic picturescomposed
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . ith the furnishingand upholstering of to-day. For another, its naturepresents little that would be strange to us or thatwould require explanation. Among the most conspicuous differences betweenRoman and modern furnishing must be reckoned theabsence of carpets, the comparatively small use oftables and chairs, the absence of upholstery from suchchairs as were used, and the greater part played bycouches. In place of carpets there were the orna-mental floors, whether in geometrical pattern work,arrangements of veined marbles, or mosaic picturescomposed of small blocks of coloured stone or making of carpets was well understood in the East,and Rome would have found no difficulty in obtainingas many as it chose, but so far as it employed tapestriesthey were for portieres and curtains, for the coveringsof dining-couches and beds, or for throwing across achair-back. The Roman kept his floors, walls, pillars,and ceilings carefully cleared of dust and stains by i8o ROxMAN FURNITURE i8i. ?Roman Folding Chair.(Schreiber.) means of brushes of feathers or light hair, brooms of palm or other leaves, and sponges. He thus saved himself both the labour and the unwholesomeness of carpets. We need not enter into dry details concerning such articles as were similar to our own. Of the Roman seats it is enough to say that they were either square stools without back or arms, or folding-stools, or they were true chairs either with straight arms and backs (the origin of the modern throne) Fig. 46. to be used by the owner when receiving clients or visitors on business, or with a long sloping back and without arms, as used particularly by women. A movable cushion consti-tuted all the the Roman manseldom took his ease in achair: even his readingand writing were com-monly performed whilereclining upon a writing, he doubled Fig. Seat. (Overbeck.) ^^^ ^-^^^ j^^ ^^^ ^.^^^^^j his tablets on his knee, and it m
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