Turning the tables
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Citation
Hinge, v.84, 2002, pp. 44-54
Abstract
Anyone who has ever turned their hand to designing a chair knows that it is one of the most simple, essential components in furniture, and also one of the most difficult to get just right. As long as humans have been sitting there have been chairs, in thousands of different forms, yet to this day, the slightest alteration in dimensions can mean the difference between comfort and the lack of it, between beauty and ungainliness. For all the time our species spends seated, you'd think we'd have got it down to a science.
But then, furniture is not just science. Undoubtedly it must have a functional purpose - and a structural logic - but it is also more. Like miniature architecture, it straddles both science and art. A beautiful cabinet or chaise can enthral, can transform a good room into a great one … can offer joy and deliver elegance.
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Article
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Date
2002
Language
en