Custemer Product Awareness in Tip Top Furniture

1. INDUSTRY PROFILE

Introduction to furniture

        Furniture is the name given to all movable and some immovable accessories provided for rooms or other areas of any structure from cottage to palace or religious edifice. It may be made from a wide range of materials but wood and metals are usual. What is known about furniture stretches back to the ancient Egyptian and progress with some breaks to the present day. During these long span basic forms, such as the chair, table and bed were evolved and passed on to the succeeding people and cultures for refinement and amplification. The steps of this progression from the history of furniture design. 

History of furniture 

      Modern furniture designs after world war first were of three kinds:-Functionalist modern, Transitional modern and Commercial modern. The commercial modern became associated with extra values which commercial furniture often offered by the manner in which it was advertised. All furniture design was influenced by the social and economic trends of the era, formal living standard declined, mechanization of house hold labour expanded. Living spaces shrank, particularly in height and home entertainment became important.

      After world war second especially people married at a younger age. Total population growth accelerated and a generally rising standard of living was enjoyed by a vastly enlarged middle income group. Furniture became smaller, lighter, easier, to maintain and more widely distributed.

          The word furniture comes from the French word “FURNITURE”, which means equipment. In most other European languages, however the corresponding word (German umbel, French Meoble, Spanish Meoble, Italian mobile) is derived from the Latin adjective mobiles, meaning movable. The continental terms describe the intrinsic character of furniture better than the English word. To be furniture it must be movable.

          In general furniture produced in the last 5000 years has not under...