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For millions of years humans have led physically active lives. In recent centuries, however, industrialization has fostered passivity and the growing predominance of the sitting posture for more and more people. Increasingly, chairs and furniture for sitting have become standard pieces of equipment in the workplace, institutions, and private homes. These sitting devices were designed according to the established standard of the chair, based on the accepted western manner of sitting.
In Rethinking Sitting, Scandinavian industrial designer Peter Opsvik addresses the issue of whether this is the only, and functionally best, design for the human body. When the various authorities on ergonomics promote their one and only "correct" sitting posture, he says all of them are right: Every recommended sitting posture is good. Opsvik sees it as his task to design chairs that allow as many different sitting postures as possible and make it easy to move and change frequently between positions.
In this beautifully illustrated reference Opsvik offers insight into his thinking on the subject of sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his furniture designs. Rethinking Sitting contains important information for everyone who is interested, for professional, educational, or personal reasons, in sitting solutions.
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Tony Pollard
reviewed Rethinking Sitting on July 12, 2019
Rethinking Sitting
This is a fairly short book on the history of chairs. It starts out by explaining the two main principles of chair design: function and presence. It then relates the history of chair design to changes in technology, materials, style, culture and society. A number of iconic chairs such as the Thonet chair (Bistro chair), Mies van der Rohe's Brno chair, Le Corbusier's chaise longue, Eileen Gray's Bibendum chair, Arne Jacobson's Egg Chair or Charles Eames lounge chair receive special mention and their respective roles in the overall history of chair design are explained. Finally, and that's by far the most interesting part of the book, follows an interview with Konstantin Grcic (the Munich-based designer of Chair One). Here the designer shares the multiple challenges involved in designing a particular chair: the Myto (the world's first genuine plastic cantilevered chair). This part is very interesting to read and well illustrated with pictures. Overall, this is a nice little book. Unfortunately, it does not (apart from the interview with Grcic) really tell you anything about "how to design a chair". Thus, if you are looking for a guide on chair design, you better look elsewhere.
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