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easy chairs : a timeline - comfort is on the way / all about the 'fauteuil confortable', the 'polsterstuhl' or 'sessel', the 'poltrona'.......................................
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easy chairs (a large, comfortable, well-upholstered armchair for ease and sumptuous seating ...while sipping a beverage, reading, conversating, resting, sleeping.) --- it was centuries before craftsmen gained the opportunity to round off the corners of the very rugged life that even the wealthy and powerful classes endured. noblemen sat on benches, stools and chests. until the end of the middle ages, luxury meant the addition of fabrics to the rigid shapes of furniture. people sat upright in chairs, formal stiffness of posture distinguished the period until and during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. the 18th century witnessed the transition from generally crude furniture constructions concealed by rich upholstery, to pieces of a degree of sophistication and superb craftsmanship. --- follow the timeline from the extremely elegant and refined easy chairs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; to the wingback chairs of the 18th century ; to the club chairs and it's use as a perfect complement for the cigarette-smoking, grammophone-playing fashionables of the early 1900s; through the jazz age, when the easy chair became the centre of extravagant lifestyle, people want to sit lower and the like to slouch...; to the 70ies' mass production of pop icons. --- a fascinating study showing hundreds of examples © designboom (compiled by birgit lohmann)
© designboom this illustrated study is provided for educational purposes only, no reproduction, re-use or transcription for any commercial purpose or use of the content or images is permitted. for inquieries : mail@designboom.com --- acknowledgement many thanks to the participants of the fourth design-aerobics course, a special thanks goes to the following people for their contributions: alison barnsley avinash kumar brenda parkin clara garcia diana gonzales eric ellingboe gil erez ivo vos heewon kim leticia fernandez lisa chan rod williams rueda kuwinpant constantino landa shawn cooper --- ---  ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? ------- |
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