Chairs Quote by Ralph Caplan Download Open image “If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.” — Ralph Caplan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chairs Designer
A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles. — Hans Wegner Copy Share Image
Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs,… — Daniel Lieberman Copy Share Image
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are. — Joe Don Looney Copy Share Image
Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
All socialists have bad backs because we slouch — except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats,… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
“…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different.… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er. — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
