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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Rybczynski, Witold, author.
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Chairs -- History.
Sitting customs -- History.
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Now I sit me down : ...
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Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history / Witold Rybczynski.
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Rybczynski, Witold, author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Subjects
Chairs -- History.
Sitting customs -- History.
ISBN:
9780374223212 (hardback)
0374223211 (hardback)
Description:
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
A Tool for Sitting -- If You Sit on It, Can It Still Be Art? -- Sitting Up -- A Chair on the Side -- A Golden Age -- Sack-backs and Rockers -- The Henry Ford of Chairs -- By Design -- Great Dane -- Fold and Knockdown, Swing and Roll -- Human Engineering -- Our Time.
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"In the hands of one of our best writers on architectures and design, a history of chairs becomes a revealing history of design and leisure, and ultimately of how we see ourselves"--
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Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
749.3209 Ry
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Lihue Public Library
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749.3209 Ry
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