Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History Rybczynski Witold
Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History Rybczynski Witold A grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on designHave you ever wondered where rocking…
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Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History Rybczynski Witold
A grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on designHave you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history--of different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames.
We learn how the ancient Chinese switched from sitting on the floor to sitting in a chair, and how the iconic chair of Middle The history of chairs is the history of who we are.