Design and Mycenaean furnishing items are different realizations and interpretations of the same craft, whose similarities far exceed chronological differences, starting with common features in designers’ and classicists’ work. Designers observe phenomena and convey the core part of their message into a new form through a different material. Classicists use these same mechanisms in working with words and texts by identifying the morphophonological structures of a language and analysing them from a diachronic perspective or translating them into another language. By looking at words as evolving prototypes, Mycenaean to-no happens to be the prototype of thrones as well as that of Chair_One – MAGIS. This has been the starting point of THRONOS as a Historical Grammar of Furniture. The Pylos Ta tablets show us the earliest reconstructable stages, not only of Greek furniture terminology but also of Greek craftsmanship: prototypes, the items and the nouns used to define them. The study of this material must take into account the vital connection between language and tangible objects, between nouns’ and items’ evolution. On this basis Pierini has designed THRONOS. Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond, an idea that co-editors Bernabé and Ercoles have helped to convey into a collective volume.