The chair : rethinking culture, body, and design

Galen Cranz documents our ongoing love affair with the chair and how its evolution has been governed not by a quest for comfort or practicality, but by the designation of status.

Relating much of the modern era's rampant back pain to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle spent in traditional seating, Cranz goes beyond ergonomic theory to formulate new design principles that challenge the way we think and live.