Cross Cultural Chairs: 8 Chairs from 8 Countries: Diversifying Modern Seating (Set Margins, 24) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 908335010X ISBN 13: 9789083350103

Publisher: Set Margins' publications, 2023

Synopsis

How people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair design

The anatomy of our bodies invites sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our means of sitting been colonized by modern design? And how is the culturally various act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? Italian artist Matteo Guarnaccia's (born 1993) Cross Cultural Chairs is a research-based design project "about the cultural context of furniture, understanding how globalization is shaping design around the world." He writes, "it's an exploration that lies between social and technical aspects of chairs." To execute this project, Guarnaccia visited eight different countries to conduct research and talk to local design studios, ultimately collaborating with them to portray each culture in the form of a chair. Cross Cultural Chairs plumbs the hidden depths of furniture design and the ways in which cultural norms assert themselves through functional commodities, opening up a conversation about identity, community and expression through chairs.

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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? In observing and analysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer Matteo Guarnaccia went on a field research to portray each country, in collaboration with selected local design studios, to situate each cultural context into the form of a chair.

Edition details

• Publisher: Set Margins' publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 908335010X
• ISBN 13: 9789083350103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Guarnaccia Matteo