Herman Miller’s Zeph Chair
When it comes to ergonomic office chairs, Herman Miller stands out as the industry leader. Its Aeron chair, designed by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf and launched in 1994, has not only gained pop culture status (it was featured in an episode of the Simpsons, and is now part of MoMA’s permanent design collection), it has also become a retro icon with the younger generation, much like the Eames Aluminum Group chair is a classic with the baby boom architects and designers. The company’s last big chair launch was back in 2018, when the company launched the Cosm chair, designed in collaboration with Berlin-based Studio 7.5, a chair that was in essence the opposite of the Aeron. But unlike the Aeron, with its many manual adjustments and breathable, stretchable fabric, the Cosm, which took a decade to design, is manufactured with an exoskeletal frame that uses passive ergonomics and adjusts …
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