The tyranny of chairs | Design – The Guardian

Lets face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful, writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this objects long history. Not all sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, theyre an elegant and crucial technology. And sitting itself is not the culprit; any unchanging, repetitive motion or posture fails to give the body the variation it needs. But Cranz, writing primarily for an audience of ambulatory readers in industrialised and therefore sedentary…

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