Geez . . .
what a grouch ! Well, he may have a point. It's true, I guess -- as I read in a book about chair design years ago -- that architects and designers continue to favor, and specify for their clients, seating which is more about looking good than being comfortable. It's an old problem.
Frank Lloyd Wright famously said that sitting was an ungraceful posture. He designed many chairs, though their collective comfort level was perhaps low. He admitted, late in life, that he was "black and blue, somewhere, for most of my life, from too-intimate contact with my own furniture." Tsk tsk.
But it can't be true that all chairs are equally at fault. My own early experience with the Eames armshell -- they were used in the dining room at MoMA in the 'fifties and 'sixties -- was that there as one comfortable position for the sitter but not a second one, for moving to after a period of time. I have never sat in an Aeron chair, but chairs of that class have no doubt become progressively more comfortable over the last decades -- I guess ?
Right. And now . . .
. . . the question to be addressed: Are we meant to be Standing ? Or is Crouching also allowed (as practiced much more in "other" parts of the world than "ours") ?
If so, is Sitting -- on a rock, or something -- a distant third, as a contender for Most Natural Human Posture . . . ?
No fences in Eden -- much less bar stools or walking stick seats or Wassily
Chairs !
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