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Cranz, Galen

 
9780393046557: CHAIR CL
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ISBN 10: 0393046559 ISBN 13: 9780393046557
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 1998

Sinopsis

Bringing together perspectives from different fields, Galen Cranz looks at the history of the chair and its social significance. From the angles of ergonomics and body-mind healing, she comes up with criteria on how to evaluate a chair for comfort and explores new design directions for chairs and interior design. A fascinating look at one of our most common cultural artifacts, explaining the history, physiology, and politics of how and why we sit the way we do.Perhaps no other artifact of our living habitat has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully shaping the social and physical dimensions of our lives. Tracing the varied history of the chair as we know it from its crudest beginnings in the Neolithic Age up through the modern ergonomic office, Galen Cranz uses anecdotes, literary references, and famous designs to document our ongoing love affair with the chair--despite its potentially harmful effects on our bodies. Cranz skillfully reveals how the chair's evolution in Western society has been governed not by a quest for comfort or practicality, but by the designation of status--between lord and subject, man and woman, boss and employee. 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.

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Galen Cranz, Ph.D. is professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393046559
ISBN 13 
9780393046557
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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9780393319552: The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

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ISBN 10:  0393319555 ISBN 13:  9780393319552
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
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