Long before history began, a monkey relaxing on a tree twig with its back against a vertical branch may have inspired man to create furniture. Many episodes in the Ramayana and Pre-Ramayana revolve around a throne, an ornamental piece of furniture in the centre of the room. Wood and metals have been involved in this business since then. Today, furniture has become an expression of style. With a wide variety of materials, many forms, feelings, and facilities are possible. Cost is the chief criteria. Unfortunately, one cannot sit in some chairs that are attempts to express and combine the character of hard plastic with good design. A few of them have sculptural values but less mobility and comfort. Furthermore, they frequently restrict our human freedom of movement. Whatever the material and the form of the furniture, it must be ergonomic and economical. In these years, furniture has become a concept in practically all urban hostels. This does not imply that the application was correct or that it met the requirements.

The age of technology offers us advantages that should be expressed in our surroundings; so that experiments with form and construction are adjusted to contemporary technical and social realities. The careless and rough handling of furniture by students at their school-homes, the average standard of living of our average society, and simple expectations about comfort and beauty call for extremely studied, economic, functional, and ergonomic sets of furniture, respectively. The design also depends on the environment. In remote rural areas, schools can afford to have spacious rooms for hostels, but then they may face the problem of having the skills to convert the available raw materials into the necessary set of furniture. In this context, my design is based on standard industrial inputs.