Herman Chairs

Here’s a short review of the new Herman Miller Embody chair – the positives and the negatives (not many of those!). Note this is from my personal perspective. Click here to visit the Herman Miller Embody Chair

A short review of the Herman Miller Aeron Chair. Make sure you check out the sizing chart below this video, it’s really important to get the right size… Click here to visit the Herman Miller Aeron Chair

Click Here to Check Out The Sizing Chart

Just a short review that looks at the positive and negative points of the Mirra Chair. Click here to visit the Herman Miller Mirra Chair

Probably the most well known Herman Miller furniture is the Aeron Chair .
So how did it come about? Well, it was inspired by a desire to integrate form and function. Miller commissioned Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf to come up with a completely new chair. Their remit was to start with no assumptions of how an office chair may look or from what materials it may be constructed from. Design cannot occur within a total vaccum, however, and to this end the designers adhered to 4 main design principles.

Firstly, an aeron chair had to be ergonomically perfect. The reality of office work is that a person will be sitting for upto 80% of their day. Consequently, an aeron chair had to become almost an extension of the person sitting in it. It had to play a key role in enhancing and creating a healthy working environment for the person.

The second design principle was function. The chair had to be easily adjustable and be almost organically adaptable to the position of the person for the task in hand. I am a pathologist and sit looking down a microscope for long periods of time. I can give my personal affirmation that the designers succeeded in this respect!

Thirdly was the principle of customisation. No longer would one size or one approach fit all. There is an astounding array of customisation in not just the aeron chair, but the embody and also in the eames range too.

Finally was the principle of environmental sustainability. Aeron chairs (actually all herman furniture) is designed to be sparing of natural resources, durable and repairable – none of the built in obsolescence of so many other furniture and chairs.

So, with these principles in mind the designers came up with the Herman Miller Aeron chair, in 1994. It soon became synonymous with the Dot.com era (all those computer guys sitting around!) and has even found a (deserved) place in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Click here to visit the Herman Miller Aeron Chair

Probably Herman Miller is most renowned for his chairs, and that is certainly how I became acquainted with the designer. Whether you are considering a mirra chair, an Aeron Chair
or a caper chair or whether you are veering towards a more stylish eames soft pad chair, you can’t help but notice the consistent quality and design principles that characterise any Herman Miller product. They are classics and truly synonymous with functional sophistication.

Take for example the Aeron chair. I’ve read (somewhere) that this has been voted the best office chair. (Although now I’m more of a fan of my Embody home office chair) I can entirely understand why office workers love it though, especially when you consider the way in which the aeron can so easily be adjusted to the fit the size and posture of just about any body. Then there is just the amazing customisation available. I mean these guys really know how to customise: different casters to suit your floor type (Yes, it’s true!),  aluminium, graphite or titanium bases, different lumbar supports, different colours and the list goes on…

In case you haven’t noticed, I am a fan, but my intentions are good: I want everyone to experience the comfort of herman chairs!