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People used to sit down before there were ever chairs. Even back then people adapted to objects, situations, and their environment. And ever since there have been chairs, individual ways of sitting can be observed. What can get in the way of man’s intuitive behavior patterns are intentions that are influenced by design, as Naoto Fukasawa reveals by means of James Gibson’s affordance theory …
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In 1952, even before the famous Coconut Chair or the Marshmallow Sofa, George Nelson designed a chair made out of bent wood that was initially referred to, simply, as the “Laminated Chair”.
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It is uncertain just how much a copy deviates from the draft – be it out of ignorance, sloppiness or for cost cutting reasons.
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Without doubt: With their “Super Normal” Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa are treading on uncertain ground.
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