Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history /
"In the hands of one of our best writers on architectures and design, a history of chairs becomes a revealing history of design and leisure, and ultimately of how we see ourselves"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A tool for sitting
- If you sit on it, can it still be art?
- Sitting up
- A chair on the side
- A golden age
- Sack-backs and rockers
- The Henry Ford of chairs
- By design
- Great Dane
- Fold and knockdown, swing and roll
- Human engineering
- Our time.