A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 44 color, 46 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AKR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 722. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Rethinking Sitting
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393732886
ISBN 13: 9780393732887
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs.

For millions of years humans have led physically active lives. In recent centuries, however, industrialization has fostered passivity and the growing predominance of the sitting posture for more and more people. Increasingly, chairs and furniture for sitting have become standard pieces of equipment in the workplace, institutions, and private homes. These sitting devices were designed according to the established standard of the chair, based on the accepted western manner of sitting.

In Rethinking Sitting, Scandinavian industrial designer Peter Opsvik addresses the issue of whether this is the only, and functionally best, design for the human body. When the various authorities on ergonomics promote their one and only “correct” sitting posture, he says all of them are right: Every recommended sitting posture is good. Opsvik sees it as his task to design chairs that allow as many different sitting postures as possible and make it easy to move and change frequently between positions.

In this beautifully illustrated reference Opsvik offers insight into his thinking on the subject of sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his furniture designs. Rethinking Sitting contains important information for everyone who is interested, for professional, educational, or personal reasons, in sitting solutions. 44 color, 46 black & white photographs

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Peter Opsvik, whose chairs are available internationally, has his own design studio in Oslo, Norway.

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