Fun Fact! Panel doors like this wouldn’t re-emerge in Europe for centuries after Rome’s fall. Panel doors resist warping better than doors made just out of straight boards.
Yet it just looks like a normal door to us. Strange how pieces of the past can seem so modern, and how many things we take as normal are innovations of one sort or another.
Fun Fact! Panel doors like this wouldn’t re-emerge in Europe for centuries after Rome’s fall. Panel doors resist warping better than doors made just out of straight boards.
Yet it just looks like a normal door to us. Strange how pieces of the past can seem so modern, and how many things we take as normal are innovations of one sort or another.
It’s crazy to me that that design is that old!
I agree
This is awesome. Thanks for the post.
I live to spread historical trivia! 🙏