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Chairs, October 2006
Hardcover
A History
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
432 pages
ISBN: 0810954842
EAN: 9780810954847
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Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” In
Chairs: A History, furniture historian Florence de Dampierre
presents a wonderfully readable and visually stunning
exploration of chairs and their place in culture through the
ages. Along with hundreds of gorgeous photographs—many taken
specifically for this book—de Dampierre fills these pages
with fascinating information and anecdotes, tracing the
chair’s emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various
forms of seating from classical Greece, the Roman Empire,
and the Renaissance era, to the classic designs of today. From thrones to divans, straightbacked to overstuffed,
Baroque to Bauhaus, this beautiful volume will delight
anyone who’s ever taken a seat and wondered where it came from.
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