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Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history / Witold Rybczynski.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NK2715 .R93 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rybczynski, Witold, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chairs--History.
- Chairs.
- Sitting customs--History.
- Sitting customs.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374223212 : HRD
- 0374223211 : HRD
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