Cross Cultural Chairs 8 chairs from 8 countries: diversifying modern seating. Matteo Guarnaccia (ed.) Graffiti and other must-know information

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Cross Cultural Chairs 8 chairs from 8 countries: diversifying modern seating. Matteo Guarnaccia (ed.) Graffiti and other must-know informationHow people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair design. The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In observing and analysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer