The Aeron Chair by Herman Miller Aeron chair and the Generation Chair by Knoll

Generation Chair by Knoll - Perhaps the most striking thing you’ll notice when you sit in the Generation chair is it's incredibly lightweight, flexible back. Whereas most office chairs that I’ve used in the past give you a fair amount of resistance and structure when you lean back, the Generation’s “Flex Back” is meant to be elastic and springy, but not so much so that you don’t feel supported in any position–though I have to say I was a little shocked at first by how bendy it really is. And, true to form, you can adjust how much give and take you’re comfortable with. 

The seat cushion is also the most comfortable I’ve had the pleasure of sitting in. Not only is it appropriately padded, but it also has adjustable seat depths and angles that allow you to slide as close to or as far from the chair back or desk as you wish. It’s also flexible up to 270 degrees, if you’re someone like me who is constantly wiggling and shuffling in their seat. It’s clear how much engineering went into making the Generation happen: What might need manual adjustments and levers in an ordinary chair (especially for someone like me who is just above five feet) is a well oiled, automatic response. 

The brand offers several ready-to-ship models, including a classic all-black chair with black frame, or a dandelion yellow, white or blue with a lighter gray frame. The chair can also be customized with a variety of back net and seat colors, as well as wheel types and base materials. A true blessing to anyone who’s been scarred by putting furniture together in the past, the chair ships fully assembled and ready to use straight out of the box.  

Perhaps the only downside of the chair is the price, which starts at $916, though it is currently on sale for $824 through the end of the month. I don’t have a ton of solutions to offer, but I will say that it is 100% worth the investment, if you’re in the position to do so. In 2012, Knoll also launched the ReGeneration, a more streamlined and lightweight member of the Generation family that starts at $622.  read the full article at: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/i-tried-it-generation-by-knoll-office-chair

Knoll, Inc. is an American design firm that produces office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, textiles (KnollTextiles), and accessories for the office, home, and higher education settings. The company manufactures furniture for the home by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll (Florence Schust), Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin and Eero Saarinen under the company's KnollStudio division. Over 40 Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoll

Herman Miller Aeron chair - The Aeron chair is an office chair sold by Herman Miller, first released in 1994. In 2010, it was called "America's best-selling chair". It is featured in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. It was designed by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf and has received numerous accolades for its industrial design.

Aeron chairs are produced by Herman Miller and were popular with web startups during the late 1990s, when they were associated with the dot-com bubble. A 2006 article in New York magazine called the Aeron "the Dot-Com Throne", writing that the chairs "became shorthand for the countless companies that didn't have a clue how to make money on the Internet, but, man, did they have the know-how to set up a cool office".[4] The Aerons were so popular that after the bubble burst, one commenter described the piles of unused chairs as reminiscent of a "corporate graveyard" of office furniture.[5] The big volume of sales led Herman Miller through the uncertainty following the bubble. As of 2016, Herman Miller had sold nearly 7 million units, and more than a million chairs are produced every year.

As described by Galen Kranz, "one of the secrets of the success of that chair was finding that fabric they called ‘pellicle’. That sheer but resistant fabric hit on the right gestalt for where our culture was at."[6] The suspended 'pellicle' seat and backrest are moulded into glass-fiber reinforced plastic frames. The Aeron chair is made out of recycled materials, and 94 percent of the chair itself is recyclable.

According to a 2010 Bloomberg Businessweek article, the Aeron chair "made a fetish of lumbar support". Galen Kranz has commented that while the company is aware that a perching position (facilitated by the chair's rounded front rail) is preferable, it put in the lumbar support to conform to public expectations—"because that's what people think is required for it to be a scientifically 'good' chair".

Sitting expert A. C. Mandal has criticized the Aeron as "far too low" and not offering enough height adjustment and opportunities for the sitter to move. According to the chair's co-designer Don Chadwick, the task given to him by Herman Miller was to update the company's previous best-seller, not to design the ideal chair for an eight-hour workday. "We were given a brief and basically told to design the next-generation office chair," Chadwick said.

In 2017, the chair was updated as "Aeron Remastered" (versus the original now named as "Aeron Classic") with a new suspension system, better spine support and re-engineered tilt. Details what is different between both variants is explained in details in text and video. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair

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