Gendered Furniture
Week 7
Kaufmann-Buhler, Jennifer. “If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design.” Journal of Design History, June 14, 2019, 1-17.
The Knight Library Aims to be Inclusive and Accommodating
In Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler’s If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design, Buhler discusses and analyzes many topics in regards to office furniture and the impact of sexism on furniture design in America. The main points of consideration and...
Designing Inclusivity: Analyzing Beergarden’s Seating Arrangement & Gender Dynamics
Summary: The article If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler discusses the issue of sexism in the design of office furniture in the United States. The author argues that office furniture design perpetuates gender...
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs Reading Summary There is a degree of privilege in being an able-bodied individual that is often overlooked. Having a body that easily conforms to the standard selection of chairs was not a topic of discussion until the beginning of the nineteenth...
Grocery Store Dining
READING SUMMARY The article, “If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture”, by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, discusses sexism in office furniture designs and the factors that contributed to office furniture being designed towards certain genders. Chairs are...
Calculated Accommodation: A study of furniture – The Bier Stein
Reading Summary: Kaufmann-Buhler presents her dissatisfaction with the presentation of gender roles in the American workplace, especially how these roles are enforced subliminally through the selection of office furniture. She states that the presupposed office...
Unveiling the Seating Secrets: Exploring Sexism in American Office Furniture Design at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
In the article "If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design" by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, it talks about the issue of gender bias within the designing and creation of office furniture. The author specifically examines the influence of gender...
Chair Diversity
This article talks about the discrimination of furniture within gender. They mention the different chair types that are distributed throughout the office. Women are associated with being secretaries in an office, unfortunately, and their chairs are a lot smaller...
Sexism in Furniture Design
Summary: In "If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design", the author looks at how the design of chairs in particular reflects and reinforces gender stereotypes and disparities in the workplace. Kaufmann-Buhler claims that workplace chairs have...
Suggestive Use of Furniture at The Knight Library
The article “If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design” assesses the ways in which certain American office furniture suggests gendered ideas about whom will be using the furniture and what role that person has in the office. The author goes...
Day and Night furniture
In the article, "If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design," the author, Jennifer Kaufmann-Bufmann-Buhler brought up the problem in office furniture. She found that there are stereotypes in office furniture related to gender and class. While...
How Our Furniture Influences Us
In this image you can see how the furniture arrangement and type influence an individual's interaction in the cafe. The couches allow for a related and social setting while the tables are more formal and intimate. Summary: The article, If the Chair...
Functional vs. Gendered Furniture
In “If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design,” Kaufmann-Buhler discusses the history and perpetuation of idealized and gendered furniture in office environments. From the advent of the white collar office environments, hierarchy was embedded...