Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history / Witold Rybczynski.

Main entry:

Rybczynski, Witold, author.

Title & Author:

Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history / Witold Rybczynski.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Description:

242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A tool for sitting -- If you sit on it, can it still be art? -- Sitting up -- A chair on the side -- A golden age -- Sack-backs and rockers -- The Henry Ford of chairs -- By design -- Great Dane -- Fold and knockdown, swing and roll -- Human engineering -- Our time.

Summary:

"In the hands of one of our best writers on architectures and design, a history of chairs becomes a revealing history of design and leisure, and ultimately of how we see ourselves"-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

0374537038 (paperback)
9780374537036 (paperback)

Subject:

Chairs History.
Sitting customs History.
Position assise Coutumes Histoire.
Chairs.
Sitting customs.
Sachkultur
Stuhl

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296726
Call No.: BIB 243074
Status: Available

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