Design of Barber’s Chair (Saloon Chair)


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Creator/Artist: Himanshu Sekhar Chouhan

Category: Product Design

Document: Diploma Project Report

Batch: 1972-1974

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1969-1978

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Uday A. Athavankar & Prof. A. G. Rao


Detailed Description

Indian society accepts barbers as a class, and their traditional profession still exists, with an exception that may be urban cities. The pattern of this profession is totally traditional in rural areas and thus differs from cities, where it becomes either self-involved or essentially business-oriented. In spite of the fact that the fashion of sporting long hairs has caught up with men, this hasn’t in any way reduced the barber’s job potential. In fact, his work has become more specialised as a hairdresser. The barber wants his livelihood and to keep up his traditional profession. Customer pays more and demands comfort. No more, he can ask his customer to sit on the roadside. He wants a decent and clean saloon with necessary gadgets—a saloon chair, mirrors, instruments, aprons, a waste box, a waiting bench, and a few magazines.