Monday, March 10, 2008

Office Chairs



One item that's often overlooked in the workplace are good office chairs. When I first started my own business, I skimped on my office furniture and my office storage. I really regret having made the cheapo mistake. Here's a great example: while I was developing my eCommerce site, which took about six months of trial and error html coding, image processing and a cart setup, I sat in a really cheap desk chair sold by a Scandinavian company. I bet you know the one. Well, that chair was great for about two or three weeks and then it got very uncomfortable. The foam was compressed down to about one tenth of the original thickness and the seat was super hard.

One chair that I really liked is a chair called the Stealth Mesh Chair. The Stealth goes through quite a bit of testing. The Stealth was tested through 500,000 cycles using a weight of 150kg onto the seat, and 50kg onto the back, this simulates 10 years of use (8 hours a day) in a severe contract environment. Top quality, high density, long-life fire retardant foams are used in all Stealth chairs. But that's not what I like the most, though it does help. What I really like is how cool it looks.

2 Comments:

Blogger Arun Kuruvilla said...

hi...saw ur article on Stealth Chairs...wanted to know who makes these chairs and where? there are many chairs that look like these made in china...not sure whether they get tested to 500,000 cycles...

March 11, 2008 1:44 AM  
Anonymous Futon-Matt said...

Arun,

I'm not sure who manufactures the Stealth, but I do know where you can pick one up if you're in the UK.

March 11, 2008 5:37 AM  

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