Welcome to Commercial Furniture Services – a leading office furniture service provider to the Upper Midwest. You will find that CFS doesn’t just sell office furniture; we provide total workplace solutions for our customers, no matter what their size or needs. It’s true that we sell great office furniture, from Herman Miller to our large stock of quality used furniture. Even more than that, it’s our wide range of services that help us deliver great environments and experiences to our customers. 108 Years of Herman MillerMeet Herman MillerHerman Miller Design Yard Case Study View more VideosMeet the Remastered Aeron Chair The Aeron Chair has set the bar for what a chair could be for more than 20 years. But a lot has changed since 1994; it only made sense that Aeron should change to. So how do you improve one of the most iconic and beloved chairs in the world? Herman Miller recruited Aeron’s co-designer Don Chadwick to reexamine the original design criteria through the lens of today’s work and technology.
Combining Don’s vision with Herman Miller’s latest research around the science of sitting, the new Aeron works smarter than ever before—so you can too. With stronger, smarter materials, better adjustment capabilities, new finish options, and a healthier, more comfortable sit, Herman Miller didn’t recreate or redesign the Aeron Chair—they remastered it for today’s work and workers. Greater stability, comfort, and support for the body’s natural movements through zonal pressure distribution, PostureFit SL, and reengineered materials and mechanisms Optimal comfort and customization across the widest possible range of work activities through updated cross-performance design and intuitive adjustment controls Three proportional sizes to provide a personal fit to the widest range of body types of any chair Three holistic material palettes to enhance modern environments Reengineered pressure distribution, hi-tech materials, an updated tilt mechanism, and PostureFit SL deliver increased comfort and ergonomic support.
With a thoughtfully reconsidered frame angle and updated adjustment controls for intuitive fine-tuning, the remastered Aeron chair supports you—any way you want to work. Recognizing that one size does not fit all people, the remastered Aeron comes in three proportional sizes, providing a personal fit for everyone. For the first time, Aeron’s colors, materials, and finishes have been completely reconsidered to harmonize with different modern environments. Across the seat and back, eight latitudinal zones of varying tension deliver increased comfort and ergonomic support where you need it most. An updated tilt mechanism delivers a smoother trajectory and optimal balance point to keep people in control of their movement throughout the entire range of recline. Strong, breathable materials like 8Z Pellicle allow air, body heat, and water vapor to pass through the seat and backrest to help maintain comfortable skin temperature. With PostureFit SL, adjustable, individual pads stabilize the sacrum and support the lumbar region of your spine to mimic a healthful standing position.
Aeron’s remastered design offers updated user adjustments for intuitive fine-tuning. Thanks to Herman Miller’s advanced engineering, you can now dial in a personal fit and custom recline in 13 turns or less. Personal Fit, For Everyone Aeron comes in three proportional sizes to provide a fit that is inclusive rather than exclusive. The new Aeron Chair is available in anthropometric A-B-C sizing to deliver superior comfort to the largest range of body types of any chair. Height:4’10” to 5’9” tall Weight:90 to 150 lb Height:5’2” to 6’6” tall Weight:130 to 325 lb Height:5’3” to 6’6” tall Weight:180 to 350 lb Designed for More Environments In revisiting Aeron for today’s work and workers, every effort was made to select materials that significantly improve upon the comfort and performance of the original, while visually complementing an even wider range of modern work environments. For the first time, Aeron is offered in three holistically curated material palettes—Mineral, Carbon, and Graphite—to create a beautiful, harmonious look-and-feel through updated colors, materials, and finishes.
Designed for the Environment The original Aeron set a new bar for sustainability. Its design includes 53 percent recycled content and is itself 89 percent recyclable. With today’s update, Herman Miller has taken another step forward by removing urethane, neoprene, and methylene chloride from its materials. Works Hard Everywhere, Like You Do The remastered Aeron’s cross-performance design and beautiful new material palettes make it suitable for a wide array of environments and settings for today’s work—from workpoints to workshops.As anyone who's worked in an office would know, Herman Miller's Aeron is the chair to have at your desk for both comfort and status. As a guy who's worked at his share of Silicon Valley startups the net boom and bust, I've only had the privilege of stealing Aerons from coworkers when they weren't looking; never actually being actually senior enough to sit on one full time. Things are different now, my fellow prisoners, with Herman Miller's latest creation, the Embody.
Its $1600 body was designed by Bill Stumpf, who was also responsible for—among other projects—its famous predecessor, the Aeron. It's no surprise that the Embody feels very good. First a quick rundown on design. The Embody is made from non-toxic and sustainable materials (42% recycled content), which makes the entire thing 95% recyclable. It's an extremely beautiful chair when viewed as a whole, but if you zoom in to look at each individual edge, joint and connector, it gets even more amazing. Check out the gallery above to see what we mean. The are seven different knobs, buttons and levers you use to adjust your sitting position to fit your body. or The seat is also made up of four layers. ...the bottom is a series of plastic bands providing suspension, the second is a sheet of coils for support, the third is a system hexagonal rings that shift with your weight and the final layer is a mesh that allows air circulation to keep the sitter cool. The most important part, though, is the backrest.
Herman Miller claims that "a matrix of pixels creates dynamic seat-and-back surfaces that automatically conform to your every movement and distribute your weight evenly." They claim that this will reduce stress, help circulation, lower your heart rate, improve your posture and pretty much make you a better worker. It's hard to say conclusively, or scientifically without a doctor actually hooking up electrodes and taking blood samples before and after using the seat. But it is the most comfortable chair we've ever sat in. You can adjust the amount of recline, the tension of the recline, your seat depth, your back curvature, your armrest positioning and how high the seat is. But you can do this on many other chairs. What makes this one special—and more comfortable—is that the backrest has individual supports. Think of a Simmons mattresses with individual coils; this adjusts and supports whatever contortions you're putting your spine through in your daily routine of reading Gizmodo.
The Embody is also really, really heavy. Granted, my muscles have long atrophied to the point of uselessness, but this has got to be one of the most heavy chairs I've ever lifted up a flight of stairs. It's also very sturdy. You never feel like you're going to break the chair, no matter how far back you lean. And, if you turn the tension up high enough, you'll never accidentally feel that horrible falling sensation you get from reclining back too fast. Extremely embarrassing during meetings. The only question left is whether or not you should spend $1,600 of your own money on this. Unless you're like us and you work at home in front of your computer for 12+ hours a day, probably not. But if you can convince your boss to buy this for you, DO IT. Tell him you'll get more work done because you'll actually not hate sitting at your desk. But you know the real reason why you want it: because you don't want to be a hunchback by the time you're 50. [Thought Pile via Herman Miller] Notes: The Steelcase Think and Humanscale Freedom have been worthy competitors to Herman Miller chairs in the past, so they might be very good comparison chairs for you to try out before deciding which one to purchase for your office.