Furniture is used for a variety of purposes; to reinforce the spatial layout, almost inseparable from the architecture, but also to create a flexibility within discrete areas due to their multifunctional designs; to introduce another layer of materiality which contrasts with the more permanent finishes; and to provide an object for the lighting design to describe, or be incorporated into. All of these purposes may combine to create a genre of furniture which makes a purely personal and subjective statement. Finally, and most obviously perhaps, is to fulfil a function, or combined functions, from the simple to the highly specific or specialized.