Category｜洋書
Language｜英語
Contents｜40 CLASSIC CHAIRS
Author｜Elizabeth Wilhide
Publisher｜RYLAND PETERS AND SMALL
Publication date｜2000
Type｜ハードカバー
Pages｜80
Size｜237×244×15
Weight｜EEE
Price｜￡12.99-YO-7850-1280-9130/11＝830-20210630
As Le Corbusier pointed out, the chair is essentially defined by its primary function: it is something to sit on, ‘a machine for sitting on’ in his precise words. A chair must support the body in at least one and preferably several seating postures and it must do so without the critical failures of breaking or tipping over.
It is an added bonus if the Chair is comfortable, and equally advantageous from a purely practical standpoint if it is easy to manufacture, economical in its use of material, and hence affordable.
But chairs are never merely defined by their functional roles, and they never have been. The throne and the bench are both machines for sitting on in Le Corbusier’s sense, but their forms express very different meanings. A chair can be a power seat, a command post, a spatial marker, a status symbol, a vehicle for decoration, a statement of artistic intent. At least some of these roles are embedded in language: ‘chairman’ or ‘chairperson’ being a case in point.
引用｜THE CHAIR LIVING WITH MODERN CLASSIC
