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Sit in China : ein Streifzug durch 500 Jahre Kultur des Sitzens = an excursion through 500 years of the culture of sitting / Volker Fischer, Stephan von der Schulenburg ; mit Beiträgen von = with contributions by Annette Bügener ... [et al.].

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Sit in China : ein Streifzug durch 500 Jahre Kultur des Sitzens = an excursion through 500 years of the culture of sitting / Volker Fischer, Stephan von der Schulenburg ; mit Beiträgen von = with contributions by Annette Bügener ... [et al.].
Author
Fischer, Volker, 1951-

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Additional Authors
  • Bügener, Annette.
  • MAK Frankfurt.
  • Schulenburg, Stephan, Graf von der.
Description
95 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.
Summary
The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Exclusive, noble Ming chairs stand side by side with chairs of the 18th and 19th century used by the middle class of that time. Limited sitting sculptures by renowned artist designers such as Shao Fan, Freeman Lau, Kenneth Cobonpue, XYZ-Design and Ji Liwei, who is also in charge of the interior design of the Chinese pavilion at the book fair, are confronted with the bourgeois sofas and sitting of the Chinese middle class of today.
Alternative Title
  • Excursion through 500 years of the culture of sitting
  • Streifzug durch 500 Jahre Kultur des Sitzens
Subject
  • Chair design > China > Exhibitions
  • China
  • Frankfurt (Main, 2009)
  • Kultur
  • Sitzen
  • Sitzmöbel
ISBN
  • 3936681368
  • 9783936681369
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries