VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: The Chair. Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz Summary: 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. Author: Galen Cranz Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company Ltd. London and New York Year Published: 1998 Edition: 1st Edition Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393046557 Dimensions: 21cm x 15.5cm Notes: SKU: VSS / 265 / G / 7401 / 5682 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Closed tear, handling marks, marks Book condition: Good. Handling marks, marks Binding: Intact Pages: 288 pages.

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Title

The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz

Publisher

W W Norton & Co Inc, London and New York

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0393046559

ISBN 13

9780393046557

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

Weight

0.8 kilograms

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Describes how the development of chairs has had more to do with status than comfort or practicality, and argues for the use of a wider variety of postures and more body-conscious seating

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

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