You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

FURNITURE FACTS
 
 
�       Amer­i­can com­pa­ny Steel­case was the lead­ing fur­ni­ture man­u­fac­tur­er
in the world in 2020. The com­pa­ny has approx­i­mate­ly 80 loca­tions
and 11,000 employ­ees world­wide. Steel­case pri­mar­i­ly makes office
fur­ni­ture.
 
�            The bean bag chair was invent­ed in 1968 by Ital­ian design­ers Piero
Gat­ti,  Cesare Paoli­ni,  and  Fran­co Teodoro. Its pop­u­lar­i­ty peaked in
the late 1970s.
 
�            It’s believed the ear­li­est fur­ni­ture was con­struct­ed in the Mesolith­ic
Peri­od (20,000–8,000 years ago) or the ear­ly Neolith­ic Peri­od (ca.
120,000–4,500 years ago). They were made from wood, stone, and
ani­mal bones.
 
�            Thomas Chip­pen­dale  (1718–1779) was a cab­i­net mak­er who
com­bined fur­ni­ture styles of his era to cre­ate a new style known as
“Chip­pen­dale.” He also designed the homes of the British elite. 
 
�            Amer­i­can com­pa­ny Ash­ley Home­Store is the top retail fur­ni­ture
store in sales in the US. Close at num­ber two is Swedish found­ed,
Dutch head­quar­tered, IKEA.
 
�            In 2020, Chi­na was the world’s lead­ing exporter of fur­ni­ture, with
$69 bil­lion worth. Poland was sec­ond with near­ly $13 bil­lion worth of
fur­ni­ture exports.
 
�            Although the Romans didn’t invent the sofa, they knew how to use
them! Roman patri­cians enjoyed loung­ing on sofas while they
enter­tained guests, who would also have had sofas to lounge on.
 
�            Amer­i­can tycoon, War­ren Buf­fett, got into the fur­ni­ture busi­ness in
1983 when his Berk­shire Hath­away bought Nebras­ka Fur­ni­ture Mart
for $60 mil­lion. Berk­shire lat­er bought oth­er fur­ni­ture chains.
 
�       Ear­ly book­shelves held papyrus scrolls, so they looked a bit dif­fer­ent.
It wasn’t until after the Gut­ten­berg Press was invent­ed in the 1430s
that books as we know them were cre­at­ed, requir­ing a true book­shelf.
 
�       Stay­ing true to their Swedish roots, IKEA also sells meat­balls. IKEA
sells about 150 mil­lion meat­balls every year.
 
�            The ancient Egyp­tians didn’t use pil­lows. The Egyp­tians used
head­rests, which all but ensured that a per­son would have to sleep on
their back.
 
�            The aver­age sofa gets 2,958 days of use, or just over eight years
before it gets sent to the curb.
 
�       The futon was devel­oped in Japan. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, Japan­ese futons are
placed on top of a mat­ting called tata­mi.
 
�       Mayflower Tran­sit, bet­ter known in the US as “Mayflower Mov­ing,”
was found­ed by Con­rad M. Gen­try and Don F. Ken­wor­thy in
Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana in 1927. The com­pa­ny is an agent-owned
coop­er­a­tive.
 
�       The finest Egypt­ian fur­ni­ture was made from ebony. Since ebony had
to be import­ed from the African inte­ri­or, it was more valu­able.
 
�       The “Bad­minton Cab­i­net” twice set the record for the most expen­sive
piece of fur­ni­ture ever sold. Built in 1726 for the 3rd Duke of
Beau­fort, the Cab­i­net was last sold by Christie’s in 2004 for £19
mil­lion (approx.) $36.7 mil­lion.
 
�            Although some believe a young Ben­jamin Franklin made the first
rock­ing chair, its inven­tor will prob­a­bly nev­er be known. First
designed in Amer­i­ca, rock­ing chairs began being sold in Eng­land in
1725.
 
�            When North Amer­i­can plains Indi­ans need­ed to move, they packed
up their belong­ings on a framed struc­ture called a travois. A travois
could be attached to a horse, dog, or human and then dragged, as it
had no wheels.
 
�            Allied Van Lines is the old­est mov­ing com­pa­ny in the US. It was
found­ed in 1928, just before Mayflower began ser­vice.
 
�            IKEA claims that its “Bil­ly” book­case is the most com­mer­cial­ly
suc­cess­ful piece of fur­ni­ture. More than 110 mil­lion Bil­ly cas­es have
been sold in the last 40 years.
 
�            The mod­ern word “table” is derived from the ancient Latin word
tab­u­la. A Roman tab­u­la could be any flat piece of board and didn’t
have to have four legs.
 
�            As Charles Dar­win (1809–1882) devel­oped his the­o­ry of evo­lu­tion,
he also invent­ed the mod­ern office chair by adding wheels to make a