‘designer chairs’

Delicious Design Process: The Herman Miller Setu Chair from Studio 7.5

14 Oct, 2009 by in DESIGN

If there’s anything that cramps your daring sense of style, and your flaring lower back muscles it’s an inadequate office chair with absolutely hideous lines and a crushing lack of support.

To counter those effects, Herman Miller has launched another stylish chair. The Setu.

If you recall the Embody chair, you’ll know a lot went into the design. While the Setu comes in at less than half the price of the Embody, the amount of detailed ergonomic testing was no less. The team behind the design? Berlin-based Studio 7.5.

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The ‘Autonomous Living Unit’ That Will Make You Run… For the Hills

28 May, 2009 by in DESIGN

The last time I saw something this lovable and all together creepy, Sigourney Weaver was watching mama Alien get sucked through a quarter-size hull breach. Shown at the D3 in New York as part of the FUTURE.city exhibit earlier this month, the ‘Autonomous Living Unit’ by Eduardo McIntosh, is the all-in-one

The idea? That this chair would be installed in shanty town shacks and run down buildings to… “provide for the basic needs of the 21st century human being.” Like surround sound, tubes and uncomfortable child-birthing positions.
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Steelcase Leap Review: Sturdy and Dang Cushy Too

02 Apr, 2009 by in REVIEWS


Grab the nearest cardboard box and have a seat, we’re gonna take a look at a chair aimed at making you 17.8% more productive and your dwindling butt muscles more comfortable through those long hours of your busy computer-busting life.

Designing and Engineering, browsing and writing tend to take toll on our bipedal bodies. You’ve seen the guy hunched over the desk or leaning deformed against the armrest. Painful looking and not a good mood enhancer. There’s a reason all those people are smiling in the ergonomic chair marketing material… they’re forced beyond their will by comfort… and probably a guy off to the side slapping a mallet against his hand.

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