Desk Throne Showdown

Office seating seems simple, offer good support your posterior and back to help you through hours of stationary labor. The variety of innovative responses, however, betrays the true difficulty of giving comfort to a tremendous diversity of body shapes, sizes and sitting habits. Here we survey the latest salvo from three industry leaders, all vying for a chance to cradle you through a hard day's work.
Herman-Miller offers the Embody, which features a complicated back design that appears to have been inspired by circuit boards. Knoll shows of its Generation chair, a flexible, bendable, fun seat, destined for the offices of design shops and creative pros. Finally, Humanscale's Dffrient World Chair offers a sophisticated, sleek and minimal design, and is certain to be a hit with its relatively modest price.

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