Chairpedia: 101 Stories of Chairs
- Author
- Maria José Ballcells, Santi Barjau, Isabel Campi, Álvaro Castro
- Year
- 2021
Chairpedia gathers designers, historians and critics to tell the story of chair design through 101 examples, organised into chapters covering everything from design classics to chairs as symbols of power. It treats an everyday object as a carrier of social and political meaning.
A hundred and one stories about chairs — famous sitters, royal thrones, chairs as social and political symbols. A delightful reminder of the SDF's claim that even a chair is a political act: an everyday object dense with power and meaning.
The book brings together designers, design historians, architecture critics and art curators to tell the history of chair design through 101 examples, organised into twelve chapters covering popular culture, design classics, archetypes, film, art and more. It runs to 240 pages with 101 illustrations, 21 portraits and 245 chair drawings, treating the chair as an object that carries social, political and cultural meaning far beyond its function.
Where to find it
In the framework
- Procedures Component
- Design is a political act · concept
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