Monday, September 13, 2010

Chair Designer Sues Disney Over Chair Used









A chair is a stable, raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. Chairs often have the seat raised above floor level, supported by four legs. However, a chair can have three legs (in a triangle shape) or could have a different shape depending on the criteria of the chair specifications. A chair without a back or arm rests is a stool
Chair design considers intended usage, ergonomics (how comfortable it is for the occupant), as well as non-ergonomic functional requirements such as size, stackability, foldability, weight, durability, stain resistance and artistic design. Intended usage determines the desired seating position. "Task chairs", or any chair intended for people to work at a desk or table, including dining chairs, can only recline very slightly; otherwise the occupant is too far away from the desk or table. Dental chairs are necessarily reclined. Easy chairs for watching television or movies are somewhere in between depending on the height of the screen. Ergonomic design distributes the weight of the occupant to various parts of the body. On the bottom floor of the three-story Paris office, where the furniture workshop is to be found, they now began to play around with graphic forms. On large sheets of paper the Bouroullecs drew different seat versions, varied the meshwork of the many small branches and compared them with other structures composed of fewer but wider branches. With every pattern they had to make sure they integrated a rectangle of stable supporting elements in the seat, one which visually disappeared in the structure. The seating shell also demanded a stable substructure which would not require too much material.

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