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- Title
From Cure Chair to Chaise Longue: Medical Treatment and the Form of the Modern Recliner.
- Authors
Campbell, Margaret
- Abstract
In this article, I argue that medical attitudes to pulmonary tuberculosis had a significant influence on the development of the reclining chair. During the early twentieth century this furniture type, also known as the cure chair, day bed, lounger, recliner or chaise longue, was used in European private and public sanatoria which were required to contain the increased numbers of patients officially diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. This demand continued up until mid-1950s when the success of triple drug chemotherapy resulted in the wholesale closure of these institutions. However, by this time, the chaise longue type had become established as a modernist icon. This came about as a consequence of early twentieth-century health reform initiatives, the therapeutic needs of the tuberculosis patient and a modernist preference for open structural design over the upholstered form.
- Subjects
CHAIRS; RECLINING chairs; LA chaise (Eames chair); THERAPEUTICS; CLINICAL medicine; MEDICAL care; TUBERCULOSIS; SANATORIUMS; DRUG therapy
- Publication
Journal of Design History, 1999, Vol 12, Issue 4, p327
- ISSN
0952-4649
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jdh/12.4.327