“Chairs: A History”, by furniture authority Florence de Dampierre, is a wonderfully readable, profusely illustrated history of seating from the ancient world to the present. The sparkling text is full of surprising and fascinating information on historical personalities, fashion, custom and social life. Starting with the emergence of chairs in Pre-dynastic Egypt and progressing through the social uses and meaning of various forms of seats in Classic Greece and the Roman Empire, de Dampierre leads her reader through the chair’s historical development in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the modern world, with interesting detours to China and Africa.
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Roxie L. Gamble –
Lets face it some us are simply in love with furniture and for a great deal of us the true great love is chairs. I also love history and this book gives you both. This book has a permanent home on my living room coffee table and I never tire of looking through it and neither will you.
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Karen Phinney –
A beautiful book, more lush than I anticipated. Would like to ahve seen more on the “lower class chairs” of the common folk, but overall, wonderful.
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mousy –
Excellent , fascinating a must have !
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Antonia –
Lectura interesante pero no satisfactoria con respecto a las sillas jamugas. ¡Esperaba más detalles de los que se pueden encontrar gratuitamente por internet!
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Maggie –
I have a weird obsession with chairs. I’m fascinated by them and their history and this was a great compilation with great tidbits of history and great photography. In my undergraduate class of Modern History of Interiors, I used this book religiously as an outside source and used it for a few projects. It definitely outweighed my textbook, which wasn’t that resourceful for furniture. I still love seeing it on my shelf and will take it down from time to time just to flip through the pages and brush up on my history of my favorite chairs.
Roxie L. Gamble –
Lets face it some us are simply in love with furniture and for a great deal of us the true great love is chairs. I also love history and this book gives you both. This book has a permanent home on my living room coffee table and I never tire of looking through it and neither will you.
Karen Phinney –
A beautiful book, more lush than I anticipated. Would like to ahve seen more on the “lower class chairs” of the common folk, but overall, wonderful.
mousy –
Excellent , fascinating a must have !
Antonia –
Lectura interesante pero no satisfactoria con respecto a las sillas jamugas. ¡Esperaba más detalles de los que se pueden encontrar gratuitamente por internet!
Maggie –
I have a weird obsession with chairs. I’m fascinated by them and their history and this was a great compilation with great tidbits of history and great photography. In my undergraduate class of Modern History of Interiors, I used this book religiously as an outside source and used it for a few projects. It definitely outweighed my textbook, which wasn’t that resourceful for furniture. I still love seeing it on my shelf and will take it down from time to time just to flip through the pages and brush up on my history of my favorite chairs.