sofa history

European Traditional Chaise

Sofa history can be traced back to ancient Egypt of around 2000 BC, But true sofa was invented in the end of the 16th to the early 17th century.

At that time, horse hair, bird feather, plant villi such as natural flexible materials made as the filler, with the outside velvet, embroidery, or other fabrics masked, to form a soft sofa surface.

At that time in Europe, the most popular Farthingle chair is one of the earliest sofa chair.

1828, spring started to be one material in sofa.

1904, Morris invented Pocket Spring, he grouped Pocket Spring into sofa wooden framework to make sofa. it was originator of modern spring sofa.

in the 1920s, Dunlop had created a new pad technology–rubber foam. Filling the gas in the natural rubber latex, forming into the mold and trying, at last he got a flexible filler - rubber foam. The application of foam rubber greatly simplified the process of filling masked, also had same appearance and quality.

In the 1960s, people developed inflatable and water cushion sofa success, which indicates the sofa manufacturing technology was mature.

that is the whole sofa history.

the ancient sofa picture and introduction:

Empire couch as it was when donated to the White House in 1962 and as it is in the Red Room(WHHA, White House)