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Andre Putman Philippe Starck Putman Philippe Starck Design
3,384 words... a successful business. Until this year, the chairs remained virtual products though not for lack of effort on Hoey's part. Shortly after he introduced the lounge chair, he set out to produce it independently, using fabricators in Pennsylvania. As he labored at putting together a manufacturing team, a national-brand furniture maker approached him about producing the design. But nothing came of this venture. Then DuPont called, wanting to show the biomorph ic prototype in its Corian ads, which...
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Cushy Chairs Building Church
436 wordsOur church had a growing phase over the years. There were beginning to be so many people that we overflowed the building we were in. The pastor of the church decided that we should have two different services on Sunday mornings until our new building was going to be built. We werent sure when it was going to be built, but we had faith. In my church weve always felt the presence of God, during worship or even hearing the word. When we walk into our church feeling sad or angry, we come out happy a...
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Theory Of Forms Allegory Of The Cave
2,126 words... brain. A true philosopher is characterized by his love for the truth. Plato defends his theory of a philosopher making the best king by writing, "a good ruler must have a good character as well as a good mind; he must always be truthful, high-minded and disciplined, and never mean, petty, or cowardly. " A philosopher will satisfy these requirements. For example since the philosopher loves truth he will always be honest. Money or possessions will not matter to him. Thus he will rule for the g...
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Symbolism In The House Of Seven Gables
1,691 words... the, the hens now appear gaunt and ugly. The family with the genteel blood is now unattractive and ineffectual like the hens. 16 The hens really like Phoebe and react to her in a similar manner as Hepzibah and Clifford react; they react as if in automatic approval of her regardless of her common strengths. Holgrave tells Phoebe, "The chicken really treats you like an old acquaintance. " 17 He also tells her that the Pyncheon hens are not like common hens. The hens act as if they are better t...
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House Of Representatives Members Of Parliament
1,661 wordsAs the complexity of government increase, the legislative branches of many western democracies have lost power to their executives giving rise to terms such as elected dictatorships and the elected members of parliament as merely lobby-fodder. While occasionally eclipsed, and led, by strong Presidents the American Congress has mostly managed to maintain its control over the legislative process and imperial presidencies. President Bush's Nov. 13 executive order asserting his right to establish mi...
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Bean Bag Chairs Bean Bag Furniture Design
763 wordsThe 1960 s was the start of a new era in design, an exciting and changing cause of ideas and experimentation, with new looks, colours and materials being constantly introduced due to changing technology. A new generation of designers were rejecting the ideas and values of 1950 s organic modernism by experimenting with new materials such as plastics, to create new furniture in vivid colours and fluid shapes. Any homes that were design conscious would contain Scandinavian chairs and stainless stee...
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Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
1,049 wordsHuckleberry Finn As A Narrator Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerford's world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerford's in darkness, lost from Jim and the raft. The family, after some initial cross-examination, welcomes, feeds and...
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Nxt Stacking Chair Charles Rennie Mackintosh Back
1,289 wordsFor my Investigation into chair designs I choose to investigate how simplistic and basic the chairs have become. From Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who was renowned for his style and applied decoration to Philippe Stark who has taken simplistic to another level. I have investigated how the designers have used applied decoration to enhance the look of their chair, to how functional the pieces are (or in some cases un-functional! ). HIGH BACKED CHAIR CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH 1902 Mackintosh produced...
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Dillard And Leopold Gift Of Perception Thier
1,206 words65279; Sight is merely the collecting of various fragments of light, but the act of seeing is about assumptions. Light bouncing of an object (a chair for example) is only that and nothing else. As far as optics are concerned we do not see the chair, we merely see what is left of any light hitting the chair. But those flashes of light are almost useless without interpretation and assumptions. Our minds use shading, texture and prior experience to determine aspects such as distance and definiti...
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Feel Comfortable Lower Back
1,245 wordsErgonomics Ergonomics What is ergonomics? Ergonomics is the science of fitting the job to the worker. When there is a mismatch between the physical requirements of the job and the physical capacity of the worker, work-related musculoskeletal disorders (Wmsds) can result. Workers who must repeat the same motion throughout their workday, work in an awkward position use a great deal of force to perform, repeatedly lift heavy objects or face a combination of these risk factors are most likely to dev...
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Made Themselves Ready Light And Dark
2,848 wordsAmerican literature reflects life and the struggles faced during existence. Symbols are an eloquent way for an author to create a more fully developed work of art. The stories themselves tell a tale; however, an author also uses symbols to relay his message in a more subtle manner. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the earliest authors to use symbols as an integral part of his plots. This is clearly seen in both The Scarlet Letter and in The House of the Seven Gables. The use of symbols causes an a...
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Mise En Scene Present Day
660 wordsAlthough the average viewer is rarely conscious of it, mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix, in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting, costume, and staging i...
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