Palliser Furniture a former chicken barn, which became Palliser Furniture's first factory. Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd. is a furniture manufacturing company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Palliser Furniture is a family-owned company. Palliser Furniture manufactures and distributes upholstery furniture products throughout Canada, Mexico and United States. Palliser Furniture manufactures all types of upholstery, stationary, motion, recliners, home theatre, and chairs over 300 leathers and fabrics. In 2015 the former president Cary Benson was promoted CEO, succeeding Art DeFehr. In 1944, Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian-born immigrant to Canada, began making wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Within
Ancient furniture whose form was copied by the Romans and is now part of the vocabulary of furniture design. A fine example is shown on the grave stele of Hegeso, dating to the late fifth century B.C.E. As with earlier furniture from the east, the "klismos" and "thronos" could be accompanied by footstools. There are three types of footstools outlined by Richter – those with plain straight legs, those with curved legs, and those shaped like boxes that would have sat directly on the ground. The most common form of Greek seat was the backless stool, which must have been found in