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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
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Galen Cranz (University of California at Berkeley)

The Chair

Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

Galen Cranz (University of California at Berkeley)

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English
WW Norton & Co
08 January 2010
Art & Architecture; Decorative arts; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design
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
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Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   366g
ISBN:   9780393319552
ISBN 10:   0393319555
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

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