Chairs are the design pieces that most of us use most ofthe time: from offices to dining tables, from lounging toworking, the importance of good chair design to our wellbeingcannot be underestimated. Accordingly, designersand architects, who seek solutions to space, comfort andfunction, have grappled with making the perfect or mostunusual chairs for centuries. But we only really see theend product, and have little idea of how our chair wasmade, or even perhaps, why it is special.Chair Anatomy reveals in photos and illustrationsthe form and the construction details the anatomy of more than fifty chairs made in the last 150 years. Inreducing chairs to their constituent parts, the book getsto the heart of each design: how pieces are designed andproduced to fit together; why a certain material imparts acertain quality, functional advance or comfort level; andhow the chair's structure can withstand stress while beingelegant and economical to produce. It also introduces thedesigners behind these chairs, their backgrounds andtheir routes to creating the chairs. Exploding' these chairs gives insight into thecareful and detailed thinking that has gone into a piece offurniture that we take for granted, and offers designers andstudents, in a single reference source, a truly nuts-andboltsperspective on masterpieces of design.