The chair : rethinking culture, body, and design / Galen Cranz.

Main entry:

Cranz, Galen.

Title & Author:

The chair : rethinking culture, body, and design / Galen Cranz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
Why Do We Use Chairs? How Chairs Evolved -- The Elements of Style -- What's Wrong with the Chair? An Ergonomic Perspective -- A Body-Mind Perspective -- Toward Body-Conscious Design -- The Chair Reformed -- Beyond Interior Design.
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Summary:

"A provocative look at one of our most common cultural artifacts, this book reveals the history, physiology, and politics of how and why we sit the way we do - and others don't." "Perhaps no other object of our daily environment has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully shaping the social and physical dimensions of our lives. With over ninety illustrations, Galen Cranz's The Chair traces the varied history of the chair as we know it from its crudest beginnings in the Neolithic Age up through the modern ergonomic office. Drawing on anecdotes, literary references, and famous designs, she documents our ongoing love affair with the chair - despite its potentially harmful effects on our bodies." "Part social commentary, part design history, and part manifesto for a new way of living, this book brings a critical and delightfully astute eye to the place where we spend most of our waking lives."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0393046559
9780393046557
0393319555
9780393319552

Subject:

Design 2016
Chairs.
Chair design.
Human engineering.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Ergonomics
Chaises.
Chaises Design.
Sièges (Mobilier) Design.
Ergonomie.
ergonomics.
chairs (furniture forms)
Stuhl
Geschichte
Design

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200573
Call No.: NK2715.C7 1998
Status: Available

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