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Author Rybczynski, Witold, author.

Title Now I sit me down : from klismos to plastic chair : a natural history / Witold Rybczynski.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  749.32 RYBCZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  749 RYB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  749.3209 RYBCZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  749.3209 RYBCZYNSKI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  749.32 R96    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  749.3209 RYBCZYNSKI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Chairs -- History.
Sitting customs -- History.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Furniture.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Chairs. (OCoLC)fst00851811
Sitting customs. (OCoLC)fst01119810
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780374223212 (hardback)
0374223211 (hardback)
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