this is one of the most common chairs in architecture firms. and it effin sucks. i have killer back pain from this chair ...
what chairs do you have at your firm?
difficultfix
Apr 20, 07 1:40 pm
ohh Shit...thats the ecxact one we have..
Thats funny, come to think of it my back has been hurting a little
Erin Williams
Apr 20, 07 1:42 pm
something a bit like this:
only minus half the levers and blue. The top of the chair hits right in the middle of your back, offering no support whatsoever. I would kill for the chair you posted above!
Chili Davis
Apr 20, 07 1:44 pm
My bum is on the Steelcase Criterion...
Only mine is a hideous shade of tan with an awful tan/green/blue/maroon fabric.
+i
Apr 20, 07 1:51 pm
my chair is not even a real seat- it's like sitting on mesh- and has no support. i have manipulated this chair every which way it can adjust, and yet, my back aches at the end of the day. and these chairs were ridiculously expensive. herman miller can go eff off
THEaquino
Apr 20, 07 1:53 pm
rationalist - we have the same chairs.
These are the best chairs I've ever sat it. Freedom task chair by Human Scale.
+i
Apr 20, 07 1:54 pm
i am just counting the minutes until mdler and tumbleweed paste their obscenities here...
liberty bell
Apr 20, 07 1:55 pm
Like rationalist, I fantasize about an Aeron chair. I have a Haworth X99 (that is actually my husband's) and it just doesn't fit me right.
+i, perhaps you need a larger or smaller size of Aeron? Or a block under your desk that raises your feet slightly? Is your desk height correct for your seat height? Do you hunch your back when you work?
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 20, 07 1:57 pm
my aeron at home is great. adjust the lumbar?
+i
Apr 20, 07 2:01 pm
ive adjusted everything. im not the only one who complains in my office of 200+ aerons.... have you sat in your aeron for 8+ hours everyday?
Erin Williams
Apr 20, 07 2:01 pm
See, the key to the similar-looking Steelcase Criterion is that it has an adjustable back position. Ours are locked in at a very low height, causing the back to be almost worthless. Unless you're a super-sloucher, you may as well be sitting on a cushioned stool.
My office has been searching for new chairs for a while... we almost decided on some cool sustainable chairs (I forget which, Steven Ward posted them in another thread but I'm too lazy to look it up), that the office staff LOVED. However, my incredibly tall boss vetoed them at the last minute because they didn't have the capability for an extended height-bar which would let him raise the seat to a comfortable height for his long legs.
+i
Apr 20, 07 2:03 pm
perhaps offices should let you decide what kind of chair you want... that would be so nice.
n_
Apr 20, 07 2:08 pm
I was about to create this thread last night but I was too distracted with this edamame sauce I was attempted to create. I have been having crazy chair issues lately.
I sit in a chair about as comfortable as a cinder block. I have a meeting scheduled next week to meet with our Herman Miller distributor because I am planning on purchasing an Aeron chair.
Does anyone sit in a Steelcase Leap or Think chair? I am also planning on looking into those for my maximum comfort needs.
eastcoastarch03
Apr 20, 07 2:19 pm
eastcoastarch03
Apr 20, 07 2:19 pm
it's a little rough, but it works ^
mdler
Apr 20, 07 2:22 pm
i stand most of the day
cyberpunk10
Apr 20, 07 2:38 pm
I used to use a cheap $20 office chair from Staples when I first got to my current firm. Now I have the stupid Aeron chair. A little better than the $20 Staples chair....but not by much.
Israel Kandarian
Apr 20, 07 2:47 pm
the aeron chair is HORRIBLE...incredibly uncomfortable and painfully ugly! its only saving grace is that your farts go directly through the mesh seat and into the atmosphere, so your coworkrs can enjoy them quicker.
we use vitra oson c chairs, in black. much less offensive to the back, butt, and eyes.
won and done williams
Apr 20, 07 2:48 pm
has anyone used an eames aluminum group office chair? i'm tempted to buy one for my home office. just for looks of course.
FOG Lite
Apr 20, 07 2:49 pm
I miss my old aeron tremendously, as does my aching back.
The freedom chair, however, is the most comfortable chair my backside has occupied. Viva la Diffrient!
not without
Apr 20, 07 2:52 pm
my vintage aluminum group chair is too low for a standard desk, but tres comfortable.
Chili Davis
Apr 20, 07 2:53 pm
For $1,000+, the Freedom had better do more than just coddle my ass.
Mark Anthony
Apr 20, 07 2:54 pm
this is what we have in our studios here... although most of them don't have backs. hahaha
med.
Apr 20, 07 2:56 pm
I agree with that chair being the worse. Many unfortunate pairs of khakis were lost due to that chair.
le bossman
Apr 20, 07 3:01 pm
we definitely roll with the aeron. perhaps yours isn't adjusted correctly. mine isn't "comfortable," but it gives good support and i can't fall asleep in it. much like a pew.
+i
Apr 20, 07 3:14 pm
my left buttcheek fell asleep
aquapura
Apr 20, 07 3:28 pm
Damn, my chair looks an awful lot like that Freedom chair. Didn't know the principals would cough up $1k/per chair on us. Must be a knock off.
I've never been a fan of the aeron, but do laugh at the fact that the dot com blow-out swamped office furniture dealers with thousands of used areons. Herman Miller wound up with a good portion of the money lost in that fiasco. Lately I've been noticing aerons in hotel rooms quite frequently. Hilton must be on that bandwagon.
My favorite chair is the Steelcase "Think" chair. So comfy and no levers, knobs or other shit to mess around with. Doubt they are giving those away either.
dml955i
Apr 20, 07 3:34 pm
I love my Aeron! Is yours the right size from you? Adjusted properly? Is your desk/keyboard/monitor too high or too low? Do you sit on your wallet?
el jeffe
Apr 20, 07 3:56 pm
this is the chair i make clients sit in while we negotiate fees.
4arch
Apr 20, 07 4:21 pm
We have Freedom chairs and we were able to purchase them for CONSIDERABLY less than $1000 each. Humanscale offers one of the better designer discounts out of all chair manufacturers out there...perhaps because they are a bit of an underdog.
dml955i
Apr 20, 07 4:24 pm
The chair that I make my intern sit in:
4arch
Apr 20, 07 4:25 pm
I think the worst chair (or best, depending on how you look at it) in every firm is that beaten up puke green model from 1975 that's somehow managed to survive 2 moves and 3 remodels. every office has some relic like that.
postal
Apr 20, 07 4:31 pm
i miss my aeron... i used to sit in it all day every day...and cad my misery away...
or was it the other way around?
now i'm sitting in a shit chair that looks like rationalists, and the cover is wearing off... it blows
but the aeron isn't for everyone, no chair is...
hehe, our old principal used to sit on one of those giant excercise balls to strengthen her back...
Orhan Ayyüce
Apr 20, 07 4:35 pm
Orhan Ayyüce
Apr 20, 07 4:44 pm
my chair fantasy. very reasonably prced @ 250-300$ and very sturdy well made too. knock off but beats the basement rocker.
THEaquino
Apr 20, 07 4:54 pm
Orhan...where did you get that?
larslarson
Apr 20, 07 4:58 pm
to those asking i sit in one of these...black leather seat..black mesh
with aluminum base and black armature.
very comfy.
garpike
Apr 20, 07 5:07 pm
Oooo Orhan. You got the recliny kind!
weAREtheSTONES
Apr 20, 07 5:10 pm
yes +i - my ass i planted in the herman miller chair you speak of - i love it - it has alll kinds of ajustments on it...we had an ergonomic lady come into the office to make sure we were using the chairs properly so we wouldnt have CRONIC back pain
larslarson
Apr 20, 07 5:18 pm
since it's friday i took a picture:
n_
Apr 20, 07 5:20 pm
Larslarson - that's the Steelcase Think, right?
Me likey.
larslarson
Apr 20, 07 7:41 pm
yeah it's the think chair. i think it's a good alt to the aeron
David Cuthbert
Apr 20, 07 8:26 pm
I'm so unbelievably jealous of Orhan right now...beautiful photograph as well. I'm not even in a seat at the moment, its a recovered old English type office chair - no wheels, too narrow for my ass, and screeches across the floor when i get up
Orhan Ayyüce
Apr 20, 07 8:57 pm
it is called 'lider' chair a knock out eames office chair and they are available at this place called 'blueprint' on beverly blvd in los angeles.
rocking chair above that is an historical situation that was entered in early stages of remodeling job a couple of years ago.
Steven Ward
Apr 20, 07 10:34 pm
zody, one of the first cradle-to-cradle chairs, by haworth. mine's red.
vado retro
Apr 20, 07 11:25 pm
i got this chair from staples here at home and the metal frame that holds the mesh back hits me right in the part of my back that holds all my stress. not good.
casual
Apr 21, 07 12:42 am
i love my aeron chair at work.. wanna jack it.
David Cuthbert
Apr 21, 07 12:56 am
Orhan - steel seething with jealousy here
will galloway
Apr 21, 07 3:36 am
never in a single chair or working at same place any given day...too jmpy to sit stilll...
at office we have very crappy cheap chair, but seldom draft there is mostly place for meetings...at home i sit at table on mail-ordered wooden chair, or on the floor, or on the futon, depending on my mood. laptops an wireless connection are way too cool.
Janosh
Apr 21, 07 11:50 am
We have these Vitra T Chairs...
AP
Apr 21, 07 6:43 pm
well, yesterday was my last day, but for the last 16 months i've sat on the chair that sabbo posted above. where the above image shows leather, my chair was a stretchy cotton material (seat and headrest).
not amazing, but definitely comfortable. the high back was my only partition in our wide open studio.
the chairs posted by orhan and lars look quite nice.
this is one of the most common chairs in architecture firms. and it effin sucks. i have killer back pain from this chair ...
what chairs do you have at your firm?
ohh Shit...thats the ecxact one we have..
Thats funny, come to think of it my back has been hurting a little
something a bit like this:
only minus half the levers and blue. The top of the chair hits right in the middle of your back, offering no support whatsoever. I would kill for the chair you posted above!
My bum is on the Steelcase Criterion...
Only mine is a hideous shade of tan with an awful tan/green/blue/maroon fabric.
my chair is not even a real seat- it's like sitting on mesh- and has no support. i have manipulated this chair every which way it can adjust, and yet, my back aches at the end of the day. and these chairs were ridiculously expensive. herman miller can go eff off
rationalist - we have the same chairs.
These are the best chairs I've ever sat it. Freedom task chair by Human Scale.
i am just counting the minutes until mdler and tumbleweed paste their obscenities here...
Like rationalist, I fantasize about an Aeron chair. I have a Haworth X99 (that is actually my husband's) and it just doesn't fit me right.
+i, perhaps you need a larger or smaller size of Aeron? Or a block under your desk that raises your feet slightly? Is your desk height correct for your seat height? Do you hunch your back when you work?
my aeron at home is great. adjust the lumbar?
ive adjusted everything. im not the only one who complains in my office of 200+ aerons.... have you sat in your aeron for 8+ hours everyday?
See, the key to the similar-looking Steelcase Criterion is that it has an adjustable back position. Ours are locked in at a very low height, causing the back to be almost worthless. Unless you're a super-sloucher, you may as well be sitting on a cushioned stool.
My office has been searching for new chairs for a while... we almost decided on some cool sustainable chairs (I forget which, Steven Ward posted them in another thread but I'm too lazy to look it up), that the office staff LOVED. However, my incredibly tall boss vetoed them at the last minute because they didn't have the capability for an extended height-bar which would let him raise the seat to a comfortable height for his long legs.
perhaps offices should let you decide what kind of chair you want... that would be so nice.
I was about to create this thread last night but I was too distracted with this edamame sauce I was attempted to create. I have been having crazy chair issues lately.
I sit in a chair about as comfortable as a cinder block. I have a meeting scheduled next week to meet with our Herman Miller distributor because I am planning on purchasing an Aeron chair.
Does anyone sit in a Steelcase Leap or Think chair? I am also planning on looking into those for my maximum comfort needs.
it's a little rough, but it works ^
i stand most of the day
I used to use a cheap $20 office chair from Staples when I first got to my current firm. Now I have the stupid Aeron chair. A little better than the $20 Staples chair....but not by much.
the aeron chair is HORRIBLE...incredibly uncomfortable and painfully ugly! its only saving grace is that your farts go directly through the mesh seat and into the atmosphere, so your coworkrs can enjoy them quicker.
we use vitra oson c chairs, in black. much less offensive to the back, butt, and eyes.
has anyone used an eames aluminum group office chair? i'm tempted to buy one for my home office. just for looks of course.
I miss my old aeron tremendously, as does my aching back.
The freedom chair, however, is the most comfortable chair my backside has occupied. Viva la Diffrient!
my vintage aluminum group chair is too low for a standard desk, but tres comfortable.
For $1,000+, the Freedom had better do more than just coddle my ass.
this is what we have in our studios here... although most of them don't have backs. hahaha
I agree with that chair being the worse. Many unfortunate pairs of khakis were lost due to that chair.
we definitely roll with the aeron. perhaps yours isn't adjusted correctly. mine isn't "comfortable," but it gives good support and i can't fall asleep in it. much like a pew.
my left buttcheek fell asleep
Damn, my chair looks an awful lot like that Freedom chair. Didn't know the principals would cough up $1k/per chair on us. Must be a knock off.
I've never been a fan of the aeron, but do laugh at the fact that the dot com blow-out swamped office furniture dealers with thousands of used areons. Herman Miller wound up with a good portion of the money lost in that fiasco. Lately I've been noticing aerons in hotel rooms quite frequently. Hilton must be on that bandwagon.
My favorite chair is the Steelcase "Think" chair. So comfy and no levers, knobs or other shit to mess around with. Doubt they are giving those away either.
I love my Aeron! Is yours the right size from you? Adjusted properly? Is your desk/keyboard/monitor too high or too low? Do you sit on your wallet?
this is the chair i make clients sit in while we negotiate fees.
We have Freedom chairs and we were able to purchase them for CONSIDERABLY less than $1000 each. Humanscale offers one of the better designer discounts out of all chair manufacturers out there...perhaps because they are a bit of an underdog.
The chair that I make my intern sit in:
I think the worst chair (or best, depending on how you look at it) in every firm is that beaten up puke green model from 1975 that's somehow managed to survive 2 moves and 3 remodels. every office has some relic like that.
i miss my aeron... i used to sit in it all day every day...and cad my misery away...
or was it the other way around?
now i'm sitting in a shit chair that looks like rationalists, and the cover is wearing off... it blows
but the aeron isn't for everyone, no chair is...
hehe, our old principal used to sit on one of those giant excercise balls to strengthen her back...
my chair fantasy. very reasonably prced @ 250-300$ and very sturdy well made too. knock off but beats the basement rocker.
Orhan...where did you get that?
to those asking i sit in one of these...black leather seat..black mesh
with aluminum base and black armature.
very comfy.
Oooo Orhan. You got the recliny kind!
yes +i - my ass i planted in the herman miller chair you speak of - i love it - it has alll kinds of ajustments on it...we had an ergonomic lady come into the office to make sure we were using the chairs properly so we wouldnt have CRONIC back pain
since it's friday i took a picture:
Larslarson - that's the Steelcase Think, right?
Me likey.
yeah it's the think chair. i think it's a good alt to the aeron
I'm so unbelievably jealous of Orhan right now...beautiful photograph as well. I'm not even in a seat at the moment, its a recovered old English type office chair - no wheels, too narrow for my ass, and screeches across the floor when i get up
it is called 'lider' chair a knock out eames office chair and they are available at this place called 'blueprint' on beverly blvd in los angeles.
rocking chair above that is an historical situation that was entered in early stages of remodeling job a couple of years ago.
zody, one of the first cradle-to-cradle chairs, by haworth. mine's red.
i got this chair from staples here at home and the metal frame that holds the mesh back hits me right in the part of my back that holds all my stress. not good.
i love my aeron chair at work.. wanna jack it.
Orhan - steel seething with jealousy here
never in a single chair or working at same place any given day...too jmpy to sit stilll...
at office we have very crappy cheap chair, but seldom draft there is mostly place for meetings...at home i sit at table on mail-ordered wooden chair, or on the floor, or on the futon, depending on my mood. laptops an wireless connection are way too cool.
We have these Vitra T Chairs...
well, yesterday was my last day, but for the last 16 months i've sat on the chair that sabbo posted above. where the above image shows leather, my chair was a stretchy cotton material (seat and headrest).
not amazing, but definitely comfortable. the high back was my only partition in our wide open studio.
the chairs posted by orhan and lars look quite nice.
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