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FURNITURE FOR A HEALTHY LIFE

Ivica Grbac
Danijela Domljan

Sažetak

The modern-day dynamics of life, technological achievements, innovations and environmental pollution have an impact on the behaviour, habits and emotions of the modern man and on his psychophysical state. Human health is being increasingly more compromised, and a desire for a better way of life and a better-designed human environment is becoming one of the chief considerations of human survival. One of the modes of preventing damage to human health is to improve furniture design, its construction, manufacture and end use. Ergonomic and environmental considerations are key issues in this effort.
The paper outlines the importance of these two chief considerations in furniture manufacture aimed at stimulating and maintaining good health. Human activities today are restricted mainly to sitting and lying down. Furniture designed for sitting and sleeping is studied from the point of view of anatomic and ergonomic features, while environmental issues are addressed in the consideration of the materials used in furniture manufacture, mostly of wood as one of the more important natural and biologically pure raw materials, but a material not free of hazards to human health if the processing, manufacture and use are not suitably controlled

Ključne riječi

furniture; health; sitting; lying down; wood; ergonomy; ecology

Hrčak ID:

16276

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/16276

Datum izdavanja:

1.10.2007.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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