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A Dentist’s Chair: For Practicality, Comfort, or Spectacle?
Journal of Design History Pub Date : 2021-02-16 , DOI: 10.1093/jdh/epab005
Olivia Armandroff 1
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This essay focuses on a thirteen-inch-high reclining chair with a carved walnut frame, brass base, and emerald green velvet upholstery in the Winterthur Museum collection [1 and 2]. Created by Ira Salmon of Boston circa 1866, the chair is a patent model and part of Salmon’s efforts to win a professional reputation as a dentist early in his career. This essay documents the transformation of dentistry in America from an itinerant practice in the early republic to a professionalized career in the mid-nineteenth century. It offers evidence of how the material world of dentists changed when tools of the profession became standardized and mass produced. Developing technologies facilitated reclining chairs suited for newfangled operative techniques. The essay also focuses on a period that anticipates the development of germ theory in the early twentieth century and the sterilization of the dentist’s office. In this mid-nineteenth century moment, the aesthetics of dentist offices, and their chairs’ designs, bridge a divide between the traditional values associated with dentists and those ascribed to dentists today. The patent model demonstrates Salmon’s desire to appeal to his clients’ interest by capturing the dramatic potential of a dentist’s visit while satisfying their desire for comfort and expectation of skilful technique.

中文翻译:

牙医椅:实用性、舒适性还是观赏性?

本文重点介绍温特图尔博物馆收藏的一把 13 英寸高的躺椅,带有雕刻胡桃木框架、黄铜底座和翠绿色天鹅绒内饰 [1 和 2]。这把椅子由波士顿的 Ira Salmon 于 1866 年左右创建,是一种专利模型,也是 Salmon 在其职业生涯早期赢得牙医专业声誉的努力的一部分。这篇文章记录了美国牙科从共和国早期的流动实践到 19 世纪中叶的专业化职业的转变。它提供了证据,证明当专业工具标准化和大规模生产时,牙医的物质世界发生了怎样的变化。开发技术促进了适合新奇手术技术的躺椅。这篇文章还关注了一个预期二十世纪初细菌理论发展和牙医诊所消毒的时期。在这个 19 世纪中叶的时刻,牙医诊所的美学及其椅子的设计弥合了与牙医相关的传统价值观与当今牙医的价值观之间的鸿沟。该专利模型展示了 Salmon 渴望通过捕捉牙医就诊的巨大潜力来吸引客户的兴趣,同时满足他们对舒适的渴望和对熟练技术的期望。
更新日期:2021-02-16
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