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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11001795.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "288 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393046559".
- catalog identifier "9780393319552 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog subject "749/.32 21".
- catalog subject "Chair design.".
- catalog subject "Chairs.".
- catalog subject "TS886.5.C45 C73 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The chair : rethinking culture, body, and design / Galen Cranz.".
- catalog type "text".