The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design - Tapa blanda

Cranz, Galen

 
9780393319552: The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0393319555 ISBN 13: 9780393319552
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Sinopsis

Perhaps no other object of our daily environment has had the enduring cultural significance of the ever-present chair, unconsciously yet forcefully shaping the physical and social dimensions of our lives. With over ninety illustrations, this book traces the history of the chair as we know it from its crudest beginnings up through the modern office variety. Drawing on anecdotes, literary references, and famous designs, Galen Cranz documents our ongoing love affair with the chair and how its evolution has been governed not by a quest for comfort or practicality, but by the designation of status.Relating much of the modern era's rampant back pain to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle spent in traditional seating, Cranz goes beyond traditional ergonomic theory to formulate new design principles that challenge the way we think and live. A farsighted and innovative approach to our most intimate habitat, this book offers guidelines that will assist readers in choosing a chair-and designing a lifestyle-that truly suits our bodies. Praise for The Chair:  "[A] concise, multidisciplinary gem."―Publishers Weekly "Cranz is no sedentary historian. The Chair is a call to action."―Jonathan Levi, Los Angeles Times "Galen Cranz has written a provocative book. Pull up a comfortable chair-if you can find one-and read it."―Witold Rybczynski

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

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

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
W. W. Norton & Company
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393319555
ISBN 13 
9780393319552
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
290
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780393046557: CHAIR CL

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0393046559 ISBN 13:  9780393046557
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 1998
Tapa dura