A stool is one of the first pieces of furniture to sit on. It has many similarities to a chair. It consists of a single seat, for one person, without a back or armrests, on a three or four legged base. A stool is generally distinguished from a chair by its lack of armrests and a backrest. There are variants with one, two or five legs and some people refer to these stools as "backless chairs". Some modern stools have backs.
The shape of the stools, as well as their construction, has varied according to the times and civilizations, to be repeated in more distant times and in cultures more remote from each other. Numerous stools from the Egyptian civilization are kept in museums, mainly in the British and in Cairo, some of three feet and others of four in the same way as the small modern scissor chairs.
Of these, the oldest known specimen is the one discovered by the Count of Carnavon in the tomb of Tutankhamun. It is made of ebonite with ivory inlay and gold frames; the seat represents an animal skin thrown on the four supports that end in a duck's head. Despite its indisputable and remote antiquity, it seems from its art and forms a piece of furniture of our days.
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