(Free) The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
♛ Galen Cranz ♛
| #208813 in Books | 1998-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x6.50 x1.00l, | File Name: 0393046559 | 288 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sit and take a load off|By Designer G|Purchased for a client.|1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| More ergo than chair|By F. B. R.|Purchase it believing there would be a history of the chair and its development through the ages. Very little on the history. The main body of the book deals with ergonomics and|From Publishers Weekly|The oldest surviving chair comes from the tomb of King Tut. "Roman chairs were rare, decorative items of luxury." Chairs themselves represent the West—or the "barbarians"—to cultures that have done without them. Office seating
This work offers a new perspective on one of the most common cultural artefacts, the chair, explaining the history, physiology and politics of how and why we sit the way we do. The chair, ever-present in out habitat, forcefully shapes the social and physical dimensions of our lives. Tracing the history of the chair as we know it from its crudest beginnings in the Neolithic Age to its place in the modern ergonomic office, Galen Cranz uses anecdotes, literary references a...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design | Galen Cranz. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
