Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history--of different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. We learn how the ancient Chinese switched from sitting on the floor to sitting in a chair, and how the iconic chair of Middle America--the Barcalounger--traces its roots back to the Bauhaus. Rybczynski weaves a rich tapestry that draws on art and design history, personal experience, and historical accounts. And he pairs these stories with his own delightful hand-drawn illustrations: colonial rockers and English cabrioles, languorous chaise longues, and no-nonsense ergonomic task chairs--they're all here.
The famous Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner once remarked, "A chair is only finished when someone sits in it." As Rybczynski tells it, the way we choose to sit and what we choose to sit on speak volumes about our values, our tastes, and the things we hold dear.DIDN'T FIND THE LIVING ROOM CHAIRS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR? Shop for a wide assortment of living room chairs from our other brands. Modern Living Room Chairs at West Elm Luxury Living Room Chairs at Williams-Sonoma Home Traditional Living Room Chairs at Pottery Barn Kids Living Room Chairs at PotteryBarn KidsPhilanthropists Michael and Linda Keston (Photo/John Livzey) The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy has secured a $4 million endowment to create the Keston Family Chair in Real Estate, made possible by a lead gift from Michael and Linda Keston and the generous support of Fritz Duda, Jon Muller ’91 and Steve Silk ’97, announced Dean Jack H. Knott. The chair will hold a joint faculty position at USC Price and the USC Marshall School of Business.
“We are deeply grateful for the Keston family’s continued generosity and unflagging support for the school and commitment to our mission,” Knott said. “For more than a decade, Mike Keston has played a significant role at the school, as a member of our Board of Councilors, as a member of our adjunct faculty and as the donor who established the Keston Institute to help California and the nation address critical issues affecting civil infrastructure. His engagement with the school has had and will continue to have an enormous and positive impact on our work.” A national and international search currently is under way to recruit a renowned figure in real estate research whose contributions have advanced academic theory and influenced business thinking and practice in the commercial real estate sector. The faculty position will be affiliated with the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, one of the nation’s leading research and education centers committed to advancing real estate knowledge, informing business practice and addressing timely issues that affect the real estate industry, the urban economy and public policy.
Recruiting a strong commercial real estate scholar will help advance the Lusk Center’s goal of becoming the nation’s preeminent center for real estate education and scholarship. The position also will help the center’s mission to expand its real estate scope beyond Southern California and the United States to the fast-growing markets of South and East Asia. “Linda and I are very proud to continue our long support of the school and USC, and we are delighted to know this gift will help to position the university as the undisputed leader in both commercial and residential real estate research and education around the world,” Michael Keston said. “It is a privilege to be a part of the school’s growing reach and influence in the real estate industry and in every discipline related to social policy and community development. ” Longtime USC Price supporters Duda, Muller and Silk were lauded by Knott. “We are also deeply appreciative of these donors’ commitment to our school,” he said.
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