Description

A distinctive useful resource for college kids, pros, and the layout- obsessed, that unearths how the enduring chairs of the 20th and twenty-first centuries had been designed for mass production

From places of work to eating tables, lounging to running, chairs are ubiquitous items of layout.

Designers and designers, whose paintings revolves round area, convenience, and serve as, have grappled with making the easiest―or Such a lot bizarre―chairs for hundreds of years. Such a lot chairs, on the other hand, aren’t one- offs however are synthetic in massive amounts, to be shipped all over the world, displayed, and advertised. We simplest actually see the tip product and infrequently understand how our chair has come into being.

Through the painstaking paintings of deconstructing and lowering chairs to their constituent portions, Chair Anatomy will get to the center of greater than fifty iconic designs: how items have been designed and produced to suit in combination; why a definite subject material imparts a definite high quality, practical increase, or convenience degree; how the chair’s construction can face up to rigidity whilst being chic and affordable to supply.

Offering a in reality nuts- and- bolts standpoint on masterpieces of layout, Chair Anatomy provides perception into a work of furnishings that we so incessantly take as a right.

650 illustrations, 600 in colour