Could you envision living in your home or apartment without chairs? Sure, some of us might have done for a bit after moving into our first college apartments, but most of us consider chairs, sofas, love seats the most necessary of all our home furnishings. However, historically speaking, chairs are a relatively new phenomena, at least among the common social classes. Way back in the middle ages, long before the first Eames lounge chair was manufactured, chairs were the sole province of the wealthy classes. In fact, during those rare occasions when medieval nobleman rubbed elbows with individuals of inferior…