Mass-Produced Chairs of Industrial Design

One mass-produced item I've always been interested in is the chair. The functions of a chair is to relieve our legs from holding our upper body upright, let off some pressure on our feet, or even to help us relax and rest our bodies. The importance of building a successful chair relies on many factors.

Most chairs that we would feel comfortable in are usually symmetrical. If an arm rest is available for your right hand, another should be available for your left. If not, something else should make up for it and complete the balance of the chair. Some designer chairs are also considered bi-stable, meaning it has two multiple functions, or maybe even forms. It can be a chair that you never touch but put out for display, or a chair that you normally sit on. Whichever way you look at a chair, you've already seen the chair and made an opinion on it.

The design of the backs of the chair can really effect one from purchasing this chair. Although there are designs of chairs we do not like, this wasn't the case in Egypt. In Egypt, the best chair of the land was used by the current pharaoh in the form of a throne. No one was worthy enough to sit on or have anything similar to his or her gold laced throne. The chairs of ancient Egypt had carvings of many different animals, maybe some wings on the back of the chair, and the legs were even designed to look like an animals feet. Overtime, through many generations, the chair evolved into this cubic object and finally started to take in some more organic shapes in the 60's.

Modern chairs today now have that element of unity, even when they no longer look like objects you would usually sit on anymore. There is a large variety of chairs today compared to a few years ago, ranging from size, shape, form, reclining or not, and now even what material the chair is made out of. Times have changed in the design world but the strive to make the new now has always been there.