NOW I SIT ME DOWN

Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, a nd of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history --of dif...[Read more]