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He also celebrates the work of husband and wife team Charles and canada goose outlet near me Ray Eames who began designing chairs in the 1940s. They designed shiny, smooth shells made of wood or a kind of plastic used in the linings of army helmets. “The object was to take a material which was a high performance material developed during the war, and try to make it available to householders at non military prices,” Eames explained in a 1956 NBC interview.

buy canada goose jacket cheap The Eames revolutionized chair production. From airports to offices, they came up with designs that were innovative and lent themselves to mass production. “They moved furniture from canada goose outlet jackets the traditional appearance to something very modern,” says Rybczynski. Using materials like metal and plywood, they created chairs that remain popular today. buy canada goose jacket cheap

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The ubiquity of the plastic chair (there’s an entire website devoted to that subject) is all canada goose outlet phone number thanks to the “monobloc” mold, Rybczynski explains. “The whole process, from pellets to completed chair, takes less than a minute,” he writes. “Since the raw material is relatively inexpensive, the production cost is extremely low.”

The plastic chair may be just the latest canada goose outlet belgium chapter in the long and enduring history of chair evolution. canada goose outlet houston After all, Rybczynski points canada goose outlet in canada out: “The problem of sitting is universal.”

Still Sitting There? In addition to Witold Rybczynski’s Now I Sit Me Down, here are a couple more books in the chair genre you might want to check out:

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