HOMO SEDENS

"Unobtrusively, but ubiquitously, the chair, as we know it, accompanies the modern human being: it is palpably serving as furniture, but profoundly shaping the physique, shaping the language, and penetrating into thought metaphorically and allegorically. [...] Together with the attitude of sitting, he creates new boundaries between people, puts them into fixed frames, fixes distances and forms new figurations of encounters. The chair becomes a staked-out territory in the sphere of the social, the sitting becomes the characteristic attitude of the bourgeoisie. " 

Hajo Eickhoff in: „Himmelsthron und Schaukelstuhl/Die Geschichte des Sitzens“