Office chair

[steveny]

Where can I get a really nice office chair. I spend about 3-4 hrs a day in my office chair. I would like to get a really nice plush chair that is super comfortable and full height that leans way back as I always put my legs up on the desk. Anyone know of a good chair?

 

[Klayton]

Office chair eh? Try that one.

 

[rickysals]

http://hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/Thumbnail/0,1593,a10-c440-pc1,00.html

 

[Acura NsX Pilot]

http://hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/Thumbnail/0,1593,a10-c440-pc1,00.html

Great chair but pricey IMO

Stay away from leather chairs I find the cloth or mesh chairs to be best for sitting long periods of time.

 

[RPM217]

Just got the ErgoHuman chair, didn't get it with the whiplash headrest, and didn't get it from these guys, but it's the chair that i got, and it's the most comfortable chair I've ever spent a day in...

http://www.beyondtheofficedoor.com/EroHumanMesh.php

Once you've sat in this, nothing else will compare

 

[scorp965]

The Herman Miller Aeron is a great chair, just be sure to get the fully loaded model (posture fit, etc.)

 

[|Adeel]

Superpricey

£1,695 + vat

but my dreamchair:

http://www.workplaceoffice.co.uk/cgi-local/shop.pl/page=recaro.htm

It scores high on coolfactor

 

[AU_NSX]

Since when does the PIC get to choose what chair he sits in? :biggrin:

 

[rickysals]

Great chair but pricey IMO

Stay away from leather chairs I find the cloth or mesh chairs to be best for sitting long periods of time.

Pricey, Yes. I can't afford one, that's for sure.

But I figured some of the others here can. A new NSX was $90K after all



An office chair that is comfortable and good for your body is a good buy. There are much worse ways to spend a grand (if they run that high?). I mean, think about how much some people sit in office chairs? 8 hours a day for some people. If people spend $4k on a posterpedic bed (spelling ) it's not outrageous to drop $1,000 on a chair you spend just as much time in.

Plus they look cooler.

I should be a chair salesman

 

[steveny]

Pricey, Yes. I can't afford one, that's for sure.

But I figured some of the others here can. A new NSX was $90K after all



An office chair that is comfortable and good for your body is a good buy. There are much worse ways to spend a grand (if they run that high?). I mean, think about how much some people sit in office chairs? 8 hours a day for some people. If people spend $4k on a posterpedic bed (spelling ) it's not outrageous to drop $1,000 on a chair you spend just as much time in.

Plus they look cooler.

I should be a chair salesman

I agree. Now I need to see which one I want to order.

 

[Ojas]

I know I'm late, but wanted to share this. It's from A Field Guide to Developers, written by Joel Spolsky, a pretty well known software developer who runs a company in NYC. Even if a good chair somehow ends up not reducing fatigue significantly (the Aeron does for me), it's still not hard to justify its seemingly high price...

Let me, for a moment, talk about the famous Aeron chair, made by Herman Miller. They cost about $900. This is about $800 more than a cheap office chair from OfficeDepot or Staples.

They are much more comfortable than cheap chairs. If you get the right size and adjust it properly, most people can sit in them all day long without feeling uncomfortable. The back and seat are made out of a kind of mesh that lets air flow so you don’t get sweaty. The ergonomics, especially of the newer models with lumbar support, are excellent.

They last longer than cheap chairs. We’ve been in business for six years and every Aeron is literally in mint condition: I challenge anyone to see the difference between the chairs we bought in 2000 and the chairs we bought three months ago. They easily last for ten years. The cheap chairs literally start falling apart after a matter of months. You’ll need at least four $100 chairs to last as long as an Aeron.

So the bottom line is that an Aeron only really costs $500 more over ten years, or $50 a year. One dollar per week per programmer.

A nice roll of toilet paper runs about a buck. Your programmers are probably using about one roll a week, each.

So upgrading them to an Aeron chair literally costs the same amount as you’re spending on their toilet paper, and I assure you that if you tried to bring up toilet paper in the budget committee you would be sternly told not to mess around, there were important things to discuss.

The Aeron chair has, sadly, been tarnished with a reputation of being extravagant, especially for startups. It somehow came to stand for the symbol of all the VC money that was wasted in the dotcom boom, which is a shame, because it’s not very expensive when you consider how long it lasts; indeed when you think of the eight hours a day you spend sitting in it, even the top of the line model, with the lumbar support and the friggin’ tailfins is so dang cheap you practically make money by buying them.

 

[steveny]

Since when does the PIC get to choose what chair he sits in? :biggrin:

When you own the company you get to make any decision you want. :wink: :biggrin:

 

[KODIAC]

In my office we have a variety... HM mirras, and aerons, and eames...

there was an article in wired a while ago about office chairs, and HM didnt win, i couldnt find the article, but i found this one...

http://www.slate.com/id/2131646/

if i remember correctly, Humanscale won on wired also.

good luck in the search...

as for me, i like the HM chairs we have, but the HS one i wanna try, ill have to talk to our interiors and see if they can get one in for "testing"

-mike

 

[DocL]

The prices on those are cheap. I just bought four chairs for a total of $19,000.

 

[SoCalDude]

The Herman Miller Aeron is a great chair, just be sure to get the fully loaded model (posture fit, etc.)

Second on the Aeron!

 

[robr]

Where can I get a really nice office chair. I spend about 3-4 hrs a day in my office chair. I would like to get a really nice plush chair that is super comfortable and full height that leans way back as I always put my legs up on the desk. Anyone know of a good chair?

What I find interesting is that I also put my feet on my desk. I have ever since I started using computers in the late 70s. I'd sit with my feet on the desk with my Digital Equip. Corp. VT05, it just sucked that at that time I couldn't put the keyboard on my lap as I do now. As I type this, my feet are on my desk.

I've never gotten over that habit, and it used to annoy the hell out of some of my bosses when I worked in a corporate environment. I've heard it's better for your wrists anyway, that's my justification . My only issue is that I tend to lean forward so my shoulders, neck and head are not resting on the back of the chair when the chair is leaning back so I get fatigued and sometimes get headaches. I too need to find a chair where I can lean back with my feet up but adjust the headrest forward.

Not that I could get my company to spring for an Aeron, but it doesn't look like it would work for me anyway, there doesn't appear to be a separate adjustable headrest that you can tilt forward while the chair is leaning back. I think most of these chair designers expect you to have good posture with your feet on the floor.

 

[len3.8]

The prices on those are cheap. I just bought four chairs for a total of $19,000.

Yeah, but yours have all of the fancy Sucking things with them...:wink:

 

[steveny]

What I find interesting is that I also put my feet on my desk. I have ever since I started using computers in the late 70s. I'd sit with my feet on the desk with my Digital Equip. Corp. VT05, it just sucked that at that time I couldn't put the keyboard on my lap as I do now. As I type this, my feet are on my desk.

I've never gotten over that habit, and it used to annoy the hell out of some of my bosses when I worked in a corporate environment. I've heard it's better for your wrists anyway, that's my justification . My only issue is that I tend to lean forward so my shoulders, neck and head are not resting on the back of the chair when the chair is leaning back so I get fatigued and sometimes get headaches. I too need to find a chair where I can lean back with my feet up but adjust the headrest forward.

Not that I could get my company to spring for an Aeron, but it doesn't look like it would work for me anyway, there doesn't appear to be a separate adjustable headrest that you can tilt forward while the chair is leaning back. I think most of these chair designers expect you to have good posture with your feet on the floor.

Yeah, where are the chairs for the people that want to sit like we do.

I remember seeing an office chair That was a pilots seat from an F-16. That would be a cool chair to have but I can't find it anywhere on the net. I think I may go with the recaro or this...
http://www.officechairsonsale.com/harwick-leather-office-chair-1019a.html
I would love to find one taht is like the seats that I had in my Olds 98, big, thick, plush velor:biggrin: Lots of padding, like sitting on a big marshmellow

 

[robr]

I was just reading this from home with my feet up on my desk here and realized I don't lean forward at home. I think it's because of the way my monitor is oriented here. I'm going to have to play with my monitor setup at work.

 

[nchopp]

We pulled one of the seats out of our new Pierce ladder truck, it ended up getting turned into an office chair for the ready room. I think the F-14 seat beats that, though.