How long does it take to read 1000 Chairs?
Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell, Simone Philippi
1000 Chairs by Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell, Simone Philippi takes about 13 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 720 pages, about 198,000 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the stylistic consciousness of an era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto to Verner Panton and Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the history of the chair is so complex that it requires a comprehensive encyclopedic work to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s avant-garde armchairs. Early designers and pioneers of the modern chair are presented alongside the most recent innovations in seating. This dedicated compendium displays each chair as pure form, along with biographical and historical information about the pieces and their designers. An illuminating tome for design aficionados and an essential reference for collectors!
Subjects: Chairs, Chair design, Catalogs, History, Antique furniture, Industrial / Commercial Art & Design
