A comprehensive design resource that reveals how the iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st
centuries have been designed for mass production. Chair Anatomy reveals in photos and
illustrations the form and the construction details ¿ the anatomy ¿ of a selection of nearly
sixty chairs chosen from the last 160 years of modern chair design. It also introduces the
designers behind these chairs their backgrounds and their routes to creating the chairs. In
reducing chairs to their constituent parts the book gets to the heart of each design: how
pieces are designed and produced to fit together why a certain material imparts a certain
quality functional advance or comfort level and how the chair¿s structure can withstand
stress while being elegant and economical to produce. In short a chair is architecture in
miniature. This revised and expanded edition features five new chairs including the Hemp Chair
by Werner Aisslinger (2011) Bruto by Konrad Lohöfener (2018) and Chubby by Dirk van der Kooij
(2012). Each represents new technological constructional and aesthetic solutions.
