‘Aeron’ chair : designed by Don Chadwick, and Bill Stumpf

•High-performance, long-term seating in three sizes with a full complement of adjustments and innovative suspension

•The two designers began this development process with a clean slate, with no assumptions about form or material, but with some strong convictions about what a chair ought to do for a person.

•”The human form has no straight lines, it is biomorphic. We designed the chair to be above all biomorphic, or curvilinear, as a metaphor of human form in the visual as well as the tactile sense. There is not one straight line to be found on an Aeron chair.”

Substantial research and testing went into the design of the Aeron chair.

•The Aeron design was refined and validated through research and experts’ opinions:

•It was tested for comfort with scores of users, pitting it against the best work chairs available.

•Leading ergonomists, orthopedic specialists, and physical therapists evaluated the chair's fit and motion, the benefit and ease of its adjustments.

•The design team conducted anthropometric studies across the country, using a specially developed instrument to calculate everything from popliteal height to forearm length.

•The research team did pressure mapping and thermal testing to determine the weight distribution and heat- and moisture-dissipating qualities of the Pellicle material on the chair's seat and back.