Chair Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

Name: Chair Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
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ISBN: 9780393319552

ISBN-10: 0393319555

ISBN-13: 9780393319552

Edition: 2000

Authors: Galen Cranz

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This volume looks at one of the most common cultural artefacts, explaining the history, design and politices of how and why we sit the way we do.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.20" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Bibliography


General


Specialized Works on Ergonomics


Index