Cross Cultural Chairs

Published by Set Margins’

8 chairs from 8 countries: diversifying modern seating / Matteo Guarnaccia

How people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair design. The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity?