Return to all questions I have a great desk, but I have always been lacking in the chair department. I know many people are going to recommend "investing" in a chair, but at this point in time I'd rather find the best bang for my buck instead of buying a Herman Miller Aeron or something akin to that. What's the best inexpensive desk chair? I'm 6'3" and weigh around 190, in case that matters. It doesn't have to be wheeled, but I imagine 99% of them are. I am also not that picky, but would prefer something that wasn't an eyesore.What about good resources for finding/buying a chair locally? Consumer Search likes Office Star Air Grid Deluxe: But personally I recommend doing what I did and buy a used/refurbished one from an office equipement reseller. I live in the SF Bay Area, and I went to One Work Place and picked up a SteelCase Criterion for about $200. Re: Are there good alternatives besides standing? Read the article at the Cornell University Ergonomics website, which makes the case that while neither sitting nor standing are perfect, sitting is better PROVIDED you take a break every 20-30 minutes and move around actively for about 2 minutes during your break.

I'm a big fan of my blue Ikea Markus chair. It has a high back, headrest at the right height, and it won't lean back too far like a lot of office chairs. Also, this chair is built with a lot more metal in it than similarly priced chairs I've seen, and it feels a lot sturdier as a result. If you have an Ikea near you, I recommend checking it out. I'm about your size, and I've been recovering from a fairly serious back injury, so I've become rather picky about chairs. I have two favorites, but neither one is what most people now days would think of as a "desk chair". I like a solid chair that doesn't move around, no wheels, no tilt, just a place to sit. If your willing to do a little thrift shopping you can get a Wooden library chair for about $20, or you can buy one new for about $150. If you want a similar feel, but don't care as much about the appearance, a Lifetime plastic folding chair will sit about the same. It's surprising how comfortable an old fashioned chair is.

You won't get that immediate "wow" feeling when you first sit down, but I find myself using better posture and varying my sitting position more frequently than with a typical modern desk chair. Also, with no moving parts, they really do last forever. I have found I prefer a firm exercise ball instead of a traditional chair.For $20 I get a chair I have found to be strangely comfortable, keeps me alert while I am at the computer (or I fall off of it) and helps me develop better core muscles. stressless chairs for sale in ukIt is all I use for an office chair now. chair and table rentals destin flOh and for offices with limited space it is smaller than an traditional office chair.table and chair rentals brampton

i recently had a back injury and had to make a change to my workstation. it is a desk attachment that mounts your keyboard/monitor/mouse + laptop to a stand that easily raises and lowers between sitting and standing positions. it literally takes 2 seconds to switch from one position to another. i now switch between sitting and standing several times a day. zig zag chair springsit is so easy with the Ergotron that I hardly think about it, there is no hesitation.replica eames chair parts a really nice bonus is it positions the laptop in a way that it can be used as a second monitor.getting used to aeron chair /item?id=585693 and most submitters don't think there is a good inexpensive chair. The closest you can probably get is a used Aeron;

those run about $500 and can be found at office supply companies or on Craigslist. I had the same question about 2 years ago and settled on the CB2 Studio Office Chair. I'm about the same weight/height as you and it has worked out great for me. At only $189, it's much cheaper than an Aeron or equivalent. Though it doesn't have much in the way of adjustments (just up/down, recline locked/free), it's quite comfortable. The reviews on the CB2 site rate it pretty highly and I have to concur. My one niggle is that the platform under the seat collects dust and grimblies which are quite visible through the seat's bungie cords. I’ve seen too many people asking about a budget chair and especially one that costs under 200 dollars. Well, you can get soem decent chairs for that money though none will compete with the ”investment” chairs in comfort or durability. Now, for the answer, Alera Elusion has been named the best office chair under 200 so it looks like an opportune choice for that matter.

« Back to Previous Page Hello, sign-in here to ask or answer a question: Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted. Tell us what you love. Living on the Road What's in My BagIn the 12 years since it descended on the unsuspecting Orgatec furniture fair, the Aeron chair has transformed the world of office seating. Spurned in focus groups, ridiculed by some experts (“What a joke,” wrote ergonomist Dan Kelso in BusinessWeek in 1999), and dubbed with the dubious honor of being poster child of the dot-com era, the Aeron has weathered a storm of resistance and a sea of adulation to become the king of office chairs.

In that time it has changed the design language of furniture—and our expectations of chairs. And although its inevitable bit parts in movies and TV shows (Will & Grace, Zathura, Meet the Parents, Twelve Monkeys) cast the chair as futuristic and elitist, the Aeron has made a good start on its promise to provide a comfortable task chair for everyone. If you or your employer can’t afford an Aeron, you can at least benefit from the impact on the market as a whole: its knock-on effect among knockoffs. Think back to 1994: ergonomic chairs were discussed among the savvy and provided by a few (including Equa, Vertebra, Sensor, and Persona). Office seating is for the most part a class-ridden society—from the big flexible executive chair down to the small rigid secretarial chair. The people who do the most keyboard-intensive work and who sit the longest hours in their seats have the least dynamic, least comfortable chairs. Naturally, with the rapid proliferation of desktop computers and laptops, there has been an increase in back problems and related injuries.

The Aeron’s designers, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, were initially commissioned by Herman Miller to investigate living environments for the elderly, including seating for a “limited universe” of activity, as Stumpf described it. Old folks tended to sit in big squashy seats surrounded by the objects they needed (glasses, remote control), and suffered the discomforts of heat and pressure buildup in much the same way as task workers who sit in chairs all day typing. The elderly chair was mothballed, but Stumpf and Chadwick’s research into fabrics that “breathed” became the seeds of the Aeron’s “Pellicle” mesh fiber of elastomeric polymers. Inspired in part by the wooden-bead seat covers used by cabdrivers, the mesh provided comfortably displaced support for a wide variety of back shapes and sizes. The Aeron also introduced the idea of a selection of different seat sizes for different-size people; not executive, middle manager, and secretary but the less loaded A, B, and C.

And it capitalized on an idea that had been batted around among seat designers for years but had gained a more pressing urgency in the age of the screen-bound worker needing a circulation boost: to provide a deeply swinging recline by pivoting at the hip and knee, and tilting at the ankle. Experts still question the merits of these innovations. The ankle tilt makes for a great ride but pulls the sitter’s eyes below the level of the screen; the various seats create a problem when a large employee takes over a smaller one’s position (or vice versa). And as Edward Tenner writes in his book Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, “The pellicle lets air circulate around the body but does not allow full cushioning of the seat edge and needs a movable block for lumbar support.” Most problematic is that studies have shown that people can’t figure out how to adjust their ergonomic seats, and the Aeron makes adjustment more arduous with a tension knob that takes about 100 revolutions to adjust from least resistance to most.

Yet even Herman Miller cannot seem to remove its king of chairs from the throne. Despite introducing a less pricey, more environmentally friendly, easier-to-operate chair in the Mirra, the Aeron remains its best-selling seat and the dominant player in the “performance” seating market it virtually invented. The reason has to do with less quantifiable things than performance; it has to do with the chair’s mythology. Performance chairs in the wake of Aeron, however, have picked up on one aspect of that mythology that holds great promise. Ergonomic chairs have long been heavy mechanical beasts, but the airy Aeron was a symbolic step toward the dematerialization of the object. It set the stage for lighter seats with reduced environmental impact (even though ironically its pellicle mesh was the hardest part of the chair to recycle). In second-generation mesh chairs like Knoll’s Chadwick, Humanscale’s Liberty, and Steelcase’s Think, less material is used, and they are designed to be easier to take apart.