The Chair Was Never About Sitting. It Was About Power.

We look at chairs and see furniture. Comfort. Convenience. But for 5,000 years of human history — the chair had nothing to do with any of that.The pharaoh sat on a throne. His nobles sat on stools. Everyone else sat on the floor. Every cathedral in the world is literally named after a chair — cathedra — because that's where power lived.In this episode of Hidden History with Aiden Thomas, we trace the chair from Egyptian thrones to the Thonet No. 14 — the bentwood design that made the chair an object of mass production and finally put one in every home.It wasn't furniture. It was a symbol of who got to sit and who had to stand.Take a look around. History is everywhere.