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Chair anatomy

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Chairs are the design pieces that most of us use most of the time: from offices to dining tables, from lounging to working, the importance of good chair design to our well-being cannot be underestimated. Accordingly, designers and architects, who seek solutions to space, comfort and function, have grappled with making the perfect – or most unusual – chairs for centuries. But we only really see the end product, and have little idea of how our chair was made, or even perhaps, why it is special. ‘Chair Anatomy’ reveals in photos and illustrations the form and the construction details – the anatomy – of a selection of 50 chairs chosen from the last 150 years of modern chair design. It also introduces the designers behind these chairs, their backgrounds and their routes to creating the chairs.

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Description

A comprehensive design resource that reveals how the iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st centuries have been designed for mass production.

Chair Anatomy reveals in photos and illustrations the form and the construction details – the anatomy – of a selection of nearly sixty chairs chosen from the last 160 years of modern chair design. It also introduces the designers behind these chairs, their backgrounds and their routes to creating the chairs. In reducing chairs to their constituent parts, the book gets to the heart of each design: how pieces are designed and produced to fit together; why a certain material imparts a certain quality; functional advance or comfort level; and how the chair’s structure can withstand stress while being elegant and economical to produce. In short, a chair is architecture in miniature.

This revised and expanded edition features five new chairs, including the Hemp Chair by Werner Aisslinger (2011), Bruto by Konrad Lohöfener (2018) and Chubby by Dirk van der Kooij (2012). Each represents new technological, constructional and aesthetic solutions.

Additional information

Weight 1.128 kg
Dimensions 25.5 × 25.5 × 2.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition

Revised edition

Dewey

749.3209 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K