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This book traces evolution of the 'chair' in India
20/08/2022 09:09 PM | Click to read full article
What does an Indian chair look like in its purest form? Is it the charpai, without which a rural home is unimaginable? maybe the mooda?
Reading Sarita Sundar's From the Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India is a lesson in why there cannot be a single representative chair for a region that gave rise to such a wide variety of chairs.