![]() ![]() ![]() This latest contribution from Rybczynski serves as further evidence that he is one of the best writers on design working today. ![]() Rybczynski’s relentless curiosity is easily transferred to the reader as he astutely zeroes in on the details of what makes a chair design special or significant. He discusses dozens of different varieties of chairs, including the curved-leg Greek klismos, the classic Chippendale wing chair, the BarcaLounger, and the world’s most ubiquitous chair: the white plastic monobloc (one-piece) patteo chair, which is cheap and remarkably versatile and adapts to almost any environment or culture. to Charles and Ray Eames’s now-famous 1950 plastic shell chair, Rybczynski studies the base materials and innumerable innovative techniques that designers, furniture makers, and architects have applied to the chairs that people so often take for granted. Looking at seats, from a stool used in China in the second century C.E. This detailed and comprehensive history of the chair begins by asking why certain cultures sit in chairs at all. Penguin Books, 15 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010566-7 Rybcznski here describes the act of designing and building a house, questioning the nature of architecture and the. The humble chair conceals a surprising amount of world history, sociology, and art in its deceptively simple design, according to design and architecture critic Rybczynski ( Mysteries of the Mall). ![]()
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