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The chair is simple and compact, which is incredible considering how many built-in intuitive adjustment controls there are in the chair. Steelcase's entry-level office chair, the Series 1, combines looks, comfort and ergo-friendly features not usually found in a chair just over $500. LEARN MORE The Best Office Chairs of 2022 Ergonomic, good looking and sold at price points low and high, Knoll covers the spectrum of what you need now and in the future. Knoll still peddles high-end, luxurious home furniture aplenty, but its office seating, the Generation line in particular, is a revelation. Also like Herman Miller, it didn’t fall off the face of the earth. Like Herman Miller, Knoll was (and has become again) mid-century royalty. The 105-year-old company is unrelenting in its focus on research-guided design, and it is most known for the Gesture, Leap and its auto-adjusting (and fairly new) SILQ. Where Herman Miller and others work in a variety of furniture areas, Steelcase narrows its gaze to furniture with a performance and sustainability bend. The American brand’s most notable office chairs are likely the Aeron, Embody and the newly released Cosm, a fully passive ergonomic chair with a few unique-unto-itself features. When Herman Miller released the Aeron office chair, it instantly became the, or at least one of the best makers of office seating the world over. Herman Miller is the company behind many of the most iconic pieces in the era of mid-century modern but its catalog has far more to offer than famous lounge chairs. Simplicity urged forward by the late American industrial designer Niels Diffrient in his partnership with Humanscale, which yielded two of the most notable and respected chairs ever - the Freedom and Diffirent World. A through-line can be seen in all Humanscale’s more recent products - simplicity. Also, brands keep inventing new innovative materials that provide better support and breathability than more classic materials.Īn extreme and praise-worthy focus on sustainable, eco-friendly design and gorgeous aesthetics come together with research-backed ergonomics at Humanscale. Upholstered chairs are generally cheaper, but harder to clean than their leather counterparts. Materialsįrom leather to fabric, office chairs can be made of practically anything.

The lumbar support should be adjustable so you can tailor it to where you need to focus extra lower back support. This usually refers to some sort of horizontal attachment - whether it's a cushion or piece of stiff plastic - on your chair that helps provide support to your lumbar region. If you have lower back pain (or even if you don't), you'll definitely want to look for a chair with lumbar support. Lumbar refers to the part of the spine that's located in your lower back region. Keep in mind that the more adjustable a chair is, the higher in price it's likely to be. Look to see what other points of adjustability a chair has such as adjustable armrests, back height, tilt position and seat depth. But if that's all the chair offers, it's probably not the best chair for you (or anyone). At a minimum, an office chair should have adjustable height. Every office chair should have some amount of adjustability because each chair needs to be able to accommodate different types of people, whether it's for height or weight.
