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Description for Chair
Paperback.
We sit on one every day in our home, school or office. Yet how often do we think about the origins of the chair or of its place in the world? This book provides an anatomy of the chair and its history, and even considers the predetermined ways in which we interact with others when seated, for a chair can communicate the authority of its owner, the sitter, and even the creator. During the last one hundred years it has become established as a revered object of design. Examples, such as the Eames Lounge chair, Verner Panton's S Chair, Herman ... Read more
We sit on one every day in our home, school or office. Yet how often do we think about the origins of the chair or of its place in the world? This book provides an anatomy of the chair and its history, and even considers the predetermined ways in which we interact with others when seated, for a chair can communicate the authority of its owner, the sitter, and even the creator. During the last one hundred years it has become established as a revered object of design. Examples, such as the Eames Lounge chair, Verner Panton's S Chair, Herman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861897589
SKU
V9781861897589
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Anne Massey
Anne Massey is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London, and author of Interior Design of the 20th Century (2001) and Designing Liners: Interior Design Afloat (2006).
Reviews for Chair
'This generously illustrated entry in the "Objekt" series considers the meaning of chairs through history ... Massey's story is told in thoughtful and invitingly well-upholstered prose, ranging from ancient Egypt to the "fetishistic" seating of postmodernity, encompassing Arts and Crafts, pushchairs, wheelchairs, famous chairs by Eames and Herman Miller, chairs electric or illuminated, chairs in painting (Van Gogh, Gwen John) ... Read more