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””’A Taxonomy of Office Chairs””’ is a book by [[Jonathan Olivares]]. It is a scholarly work that applies the methods normally associated with scientific classification of biological [[Taxon|taxa]] to furniture typologies. |
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According to the ”[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]”, it is “a serious attempt to visualize the evolutionary breakthroughs and mutations often taken for granted when considering the various industrialized objects that ‘make up our predominant reality.'”<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-18|title=All Hail the Chairmen: Jonathan Olivares’s “Taxonomy of Office Chairs”|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/all-hail-the-chairmen-jonathan-olivaress-taxonomy-of-office-chairs|access-date=2025-10-22|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> Writing for the ”New York Times”, the design critic [[Alice Rawsthorn]] notes that Olivares’s “unusually thoughtful and rigorous” taxonomic method of approaching the subject “distinguishes his book from the usual run of image-heavy, fact-lite coffee table-crushing design tomes.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rawsthorn|first=Alice|author-link=Alice Rawsthorn|date=24 April 2011|title=Taking a Zoological Approach to Chairs (Published 2011)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/arts/25iht-design25.html|access-date=22 October 2025|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://archive.is/nNkyf|archive-date=11 Dec 2021}}</ref> |
According to the ”[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]”, it is “a serious attempt to visualize the evolutionary breakthroughs and mutations often taken for granted when considering the various industrialized objects that ‘make up our predominant reality.'”<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-18|title=All Hail the Chairmen: Jonathan Olivares’s “Taxonomy of Office Chairs”|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/all-hail-the-chairmen-jonathan-olivaress-taxonomy-of-office-chairs|access-date=2025-10-22|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> Writing for the ”New York Times”, the design critic [[Alice Rawsthorn]] notes that Olivares’s “unusually thoughtful and rigorous” taxonomic method of approaching the subject “distinguishes his book from the usual run of image-heavy, fact-lite coffee table-crushing design tomes.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rawsthorn|first=Alice|author-link=Alice Rawsthorn|date=24 April 2011|title=Taking a Zoological Approach to Chairs (Published 2011)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/arts/25iht-design25.html|access-date=22 October 2025|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://archive.is/nNkyf|archive-date=11 Dec 2021}}</ref> |
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs is a 2011 book by Jonathan Olivares. It is a scholarly work that applies the methods normally associated with scientific classification of biological taxa to furniture typologies.
According to the Los Angeles Review of Books, it is “a serious attempt to visualize the evolutionary breakthroughs and mutations often taken for granted when considering the various industrialized objects that ‘make up our predominant reality.'”[1] Writing for the New York Times, the design critic Alice Rawsthorn notes that Olivares’s “unusually thoughtful and rigorous” taxonomic method of approaching the subject “distinguishes his book from the usual run of image-heavy, fact-lite coffee table-crushing design tomes.”[2]
The book was the result of research initially commissioned by Benjamin Pardo, Olivares’s predecessor as design director of Knoll, and it was published by Phaidon Press in May 2011.[3][4][5]
