3000 B.C.

Patio Furniture First Introduced

By Egyptians. Wicker. Used by royalty outside their palaces. Also used in burying their dead -- though presumably the dead (and buried) enjoyed their wicker experience less heartily than those who sat in the wicker above ground, on the piazza, served grapes by slaves who would soon join the buried, though in a somewhat lower-grade coffin (i.e., dirt).