Abstract

Where Do We Sit?

How and where a nation sits is even more important, than how or where it stands, because every citizen, when he is at home in his own easy chair, is relaxed and most deeply himself. He is either sinking into overstuffed or he is in repose gathering new strength to meet the-world. The chair itself is either deadening or bracing. That is why the new chairs at the Museum of Modern Art are good news. They are being shown, along with other modern furniture, not only at the museum but in a string of big-city-department stores that helped sponsor the competition. The slogan is "Organic Design," Patterns are now on hand; with enough further testing and, above all, popularization, real production can begin arid cut down prices. In a nutshell, what the furniture designers have done is to cut the intolerable dead weight of customary overstuffed chairs by a complete revision, and to multiply the usefulness of chests by standardization.