Chair Making
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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
Galen Cranz
This provocative look at one of our most common cultural artifacts reveals the history, physiology, and politics of how and why we sit the way we do-- and others don't. Chairs, it turns out, are about status more than they are about comfort. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part I: Why Do Use Chairs?
1. How Chairs Evolved
2. The Elements of Style Part II: What's Wrong with the Chair?
3. And Ergonomic Perspective
4. A Body-Mind Perspective Part III: Toward Body-Conscious Design
5. The Chair Reformed
6. Beyond Interior Design Notes Bibliography
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Specialized Works on Ergonomics Index
288 pgs, 6x8.5, b&w illus, softcover
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