From the Frugal to the Ornate - Stories of the Seat in India

By:

Sundar, Sarita

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: India Godrej and Boyce 2022Description: 361ISBN:

978-81-9327-401-9

Subject(s):

Interior Styling, Antique Furniture

DDC classification:

DSGN SUN

Summary: Cross-linking disciplines from contemporary design practice and production to design anthropology and cultural trends, this book investigates and spotlights the seat’s relationship with its sitter, and other people in its periphery. It examines the power the seat wields, and the power it grants by sheer association. Bestowing life and spirit into objects, the book asks: what is the seat for, what are the worlds to which it belongs, what worlds have been (and will be) opened by it? By deconstructing the seat, From the Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India, reflects upon the marked shift in the way practitioners, users, and analysts conceptualize and engage with object culture, and a subsequent ‘turn to the material’.

Holdings
Cover image	Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
	Books	Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3D	DSGN/SUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BK01743

Total holds: 0

Cross-linking disciplines from contemporary design practice and production to design anthropology and cultural trends, this book investigates and spotlights the seat’s relationship with its sitter, and other people in its periphery. It examines the power the seat wields, and the power it grants by sheer association. Bestowing life and spirit into objects, the book asks: what is the seat for, what are the worlds to which it belongs, what worlds have been (and will be) opened by it? By deconstructing the seat, From the Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India, reflects upon the marked shift in the way practitioners, users, and analysts conceptualize and engage with object culture, and a subsequent ‘turn to the material’.

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