Reviews
Seeing so many different chair designs will probably help me choose a chair in the future.
Since moving into a new home, I’ve been gradually buying furniture, and looking at the chairs in this book makes furnishing the place piece by piece enjoyable.
It’s so thick that it takes a long time to get through. It’s a pleasure to learn world history along with furniture. I thought Herman Miller was the best.
Design isn't simply the process of making something look attractive; it also incorporates functionality. Perhaps people are excited by a brilliantly conceived design not just because it looks good, but because of the function they imagine it contains and can deliver. People are practical and calculating. They aren't likely to love something just because it's pretty; they may be excited by the potential usefulness and benefits its beauty could bring them. Like other furniture, a chair originally
Wow, this is a book that makes you marvel. There is something delightful about encountering the astonishing history of chairs’ transformations into art. Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs introduces 500 chairs created by renowned designers around the world. You could call it a collection of the finest chairs selected by Phaidon, a publisher specializing in art, architecture, photography, design, and fashion that was founded in Vienna in 1923. The selection criteria include innovative design,
Book Review: Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs, Phaidon Press, Maronie Books. The Korean word for chair is not easy to pronounce. You cannot simply combine the sounds into ‘euija,’ and ‘ija’ sounds even stranger. Perhaps it was formed this way to make us mindful of the chair’s importance as we say the word. The English word ‘chair’ has a pleasant sound and is easy to pronounce. Every home has a chair. Chairs have become so deeply woven into everyday life that they are indispensable
This was less a book I wanted to read than one I wanted to own. The large pieces of furniture that shape a home’s interior include the kitchen table, living-room sofa, and bedroom bed, but I think chairs show the homeowner’s sense of style more than anything else. They take up relatively little space, so you can arrange several different models together; they can bring life to an unused corner and make the overall layout feel thoughtful. These days, chairs come in so many designs, colors, and
If asked to name the piece of furniture most familiar to modern people, many would readily say ‘the chair.’ As we moved beyond an era when people farmed or hunted outdoors and entered the Industrial Revolution, office jobs emerged, and we naturally began spending more time sitting than walking or standing. Sitting has become part of daily life: we sit to eat, study, work, drive, use computers, and watch TV. According to Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency national health statistics,
Although this is a very thick book, pages 6 through 505 are all devoted to ‘500 Innovative Chair Designs.’ The chairs differ in shape, form, and use, and show not only their practical purpose for sitting and resting but also the sculptural beauty that lets us see them as works of art. I once saw chairs on display at an art museum called Museum SAN, and I remember being surprised that innovative design can transcend its era. Ergonomic designs existed as early as the beginning of the 20th
#BookGift Last month, I visited a chair exhibition hosted by the Iham Campus Gallery in Yangpyeong. The chairs from different countries were arranged by era, and I was impressed by their designs and then surprised again by their materials. I could really feel how much a chair’s design changes its character. Maronie Books has published a book called Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs. I opened it with curiosity, thinking it would be nice to read alongside the exhibition I had recently seen. The
Phaidon Editorial Department: Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs
Chairs are everywhere around us. They are indispensable pieces of furniture in every part of modern life: we use them to eat, work, rest, write, talk, and even sleep. We spend much of each day with chairs, but how much do we really know about them? Picture a chair in your mind: a back, two armrests, a seat, and four supporting legs. That's the basic form most of us know. Yet it is only one of the many forms a chair can take. A chair may have three legs, a single pedestal, or a cantilever frame made of one continuous line. It may have one armrest, two, or none; its back may be long or short, wide or narrow. Materials range far beyond wood, metal, plastic, and marble to include paper and textiles. A chair may be soft or hard, luxurious or very simple, light enough to lift with one finger, or so heavy that a person cannot move it by hand. Chairs come in an extraordinary variety of forms. Since they became everyday objects, the number of chairs designed and made has become impossible to count. Chair: 500 Innovative Designs presents 500 chair designs worth introducing from among them.
Korean title: 체어(Chair): 혁신적인 의자 디자인 500
Korean author: 파이돈 편집부
Korean publisher: 마로니에북스
ISBN-13: 9788960536579
Reviews
Seeing so many different chair designs will probably help me choose a chair in the future.
Since moving into a new home, I’ve been gradually buying furniture, and looking at the chairs in this book makes furnishing the place piece by piece enjoyable.
It’s so thick that it takes a long time to get through. It’s a pleasure to learn world history along with furniture. I thought Herman Miller was the best.
Design isn't simply the process of making something look attractive; it also incorporates functionality. Perhaps people are excited by a brilliantly conceived design not just because it looks good, but because of the function they imagine it contains and can deliver. People are practical and calculating. They aren't likely to love something just because it's pretty; they may be excited by the potential usefulness and benefits its beauty could bring them. Like other furniture, a chair originally
Wow, this is a book that makes you marvel. There is something delightful about encountering the astonishing history of chairs’ transformations into art. Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs introduces 500 chairs created by renowned designers around the world. You could call it a collection of the finest chairs selected by Phaidon, a publisher specializing in art, architecture, photography, design, and fashion that was founded in Vienna in 1923. The selection criteria include innovative design,
Book Review: Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs, Phaidon Press, Maronie Books. The Korean word for chair is not easy to pronounce. You cannot simply combine the sounds into ‘euija,’ and ‘ija’ sounds even stranger. Perhaps it was formed this way to make us mindful of the chair’s importance as we say the word. The English word ‘chair’ has a pleasant sound and is easy to pronounce. Every home has a chair. Chairs have become so deeply woven into everyday life that they are indispensable
This was less a book I wanted to read than one I wanted to own. The large pieces of furniture that shape a home’s interior include the kitchen table, living-room sofa, and bedroom bed, but I think chairs show the homeowner’s sense of style more than anything else. They take up relatively little space, so you can arrange several different models together; they can bring life to an unused corner and make the overall layout feel thoughtful. These days, chairs come in so many designs, colors, and
If asked to name the piece of furniture most familiar to modern people, many would readily say ‘the chair.’ As we moved beyond an era when people farmed or hunted outdoors and entered the Industrial Revolution, office jobs emerged, and we naturally began spending more time sitting than walking or standing. Sitting has become part of daily life: we sit to eat, study, work, drive, use computers, and watch TV. According to Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency national health statistics,
Although this is a very thick book, pages 6 through 505 are all devoted to ‘500 Innovative Chair Designs.’ The chairs differ in shape, form, and use, and show not only their practical purpose for sitting and resting but also the sculptural beauty that lets us see them as works of art. I once saw chairs on display at an art museum called Museum SAN, and I remember being surprised that innovative design can transcend its era. Ergonomic designs existed as early as the beginning of the 20th
#BookGift Last month, I visited a chair exhibition hosted by the Iham Campus Gallery in Yangpyeong. The chairs from different countries were arranged by era, and I was impressed by their designs and then surprised again by their materials. I could really feel how much a chair’s design changes its character. Maronie Books has published a book called Chair: 500 Innovative Chair Designs. I opened it with curiosity, thinking it would be nice to read alongside the exhibition I had recently seen. The
