Leather Backed Chair
This is a black leather chair that I use in my home office for reading books on my iPad and Watching Videos on YouTube. The chair is intended for long term use. When I sit in the chair, I can hear a small swoosh of air flow out from the cushions. However, the chair works extremely well. Although I only use it for short moments of time because most of my work is done on a standing desk, the chair has prevented me from feeling irritation in my upper vertebrae. An interesting thing about this chair is that when I sit, just for a moment, I feel like the CEO of a major corporation.
Historical Fact:
In 1977, the Emilio Ambasz & Giancarlo Piretti office chair was the first leather backed office chair to utilize springs for allowing the chair to respond automatically to the body’s movements.
Kitchen Table Chairs
These are kitchen table chairs that I use every day to eat my breakfast, lunch and dinner. When I sit in the chair, I feel the soft cushion as well as the subtle curvature of wood from the back chair rest gently pressing on my upper back. The chair is comfortable. However, what seems to make the chair even more comfortable is that while sitting, I will get the opportunity to have a nice savory meal.
UTC Mall Chairs by UCI
These are metal tubular mall chairs similar to those where my UCI group and I get together. Sitting in the chairs, I get a sense of freedom and a sense of joy that my classmates are next to me discussing various academic topics that come to mind.
Something that I found interesting was that, even though the chairs were very hard and made out of what seemed like steel mesh, the chair designs became ubiquitous and unnoticed in the company of my classmates.
Historical Fact:
The 1925-1927 Marcel Breuer chair, designed at Dessau Bauhaus, was the first chair that used steel tubing similar to the steel tubing used in the mall chairs above.
Starbucks Chairs
The chairs above are chairs that I sit in at Starbucks every morning to drink my morning cup of coffee and organize my daily schedule on my calendar. When I sit in the chairs, I always notice how hard the chairs are. However, the discomfort quickly becomes ubiquitous as I begin organizing my daily schedule. One interesting feeling that overcomes me, as I pull the chairs out from the small coffee tables in the morning and I hear the sound of wood echoing off of the tile floor, is the need to begin working on something, anything at all so that I can take on the day.