With their design for a molded one-piece shell chair, Charles and Ray Eames created a simple, gracious form that fits any body and every place. With each new form, finish, and configuration, the designers and Herman Miller continued to push the boundaries of what a Shell Chair could be. Today, our most diverse selection of materials, colors, finishes, upholstery options, and bases enables you to create your perfect Eames Shell Chair. Click on image to zoom Designers: Bill Stumpf and Jeff WeberForm doesn't just follow function with Embody. Function is on full display. This ergonomic office chair's highly technical structures—such as the spine-like Backfit, with its visible H-flexors—show how it bends to encourage seated movement. Embody is purposeful design that creates harmony between your mind and body, and between your body and work. Configure Your Embody Chair Add to Wish List So intelligent, sitting in it actually helps you think With Embody, designers Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber set out to solve the problem of the lack of physical harmony between people and their technology.
They worked with more than 30 physicians and PhDs in the fields of biomechanics, vision, physical therapy, and ergonomics who contributed their expertise to help guide the development of this office chair. As a result, you feel Embody’s responsive ergonomics the moment you sit down—like you are floating, yet perfectly balanced. The seat distributes your weight evenly while supporting your body’s micro-movements. The narrow backrest allows you to move freely and naturally as it automatically adjusts to support a full range of seated postures. By reducing seated pressure and encouraging freedom of movement, Embody allows blood and oxygen to flow more freely, which helps keep you focused. "Sitting is bad for you. Embody is good for you." Less Pressure, More Cool A combination of support layers in Embody’s seat work together to reduce seated pressure. These layers were designed to allow for airflow, keeping you cool and comfortable as you sit. As Agile as You Are
Embody encourages movement, keeping your body and brain limber all day, and helping you stay focused and relaxed at the same time. That’s good, because movement promotes blood and oxygen flow, which keeps the brain more focused. Embody encourages the most healthful posture for computer users—a working recline, which reduces spine compression and even slows fluid loss from discs. The Backfit adjustment positions the backrest in line with your spine's natural curve, from your sacrum to lumbar and upper thoracic. When you move in this office chair, your head remains properly aligned to your computer display. Embody's tilt technology maintains your back in a fixed position relative to the seat, encouraging your body to move naturally into the most positive seated postures while keeping your pelvis stable. Three Zones of Support The tilt technology of the Embody chair also provides three zones of support—for your thighs, sacrum/sitting bones, and thorax. The pelvis remains stable with no rearward rotation.
Without a rigid frame and with edges that flex, Embody prevents uncomfortable pressure on your legs and arms. A dynamic matrix of pixels creates seat and back surfaces that automatically conform to your every movement and distribute your weight evenly. One chair size fits every body because Embody automatically adapts to the wide variation in the sizes, shapes, postures, and spinal curves of different people. Best of NeoCon Silver Award, Ergonomic Desk/Task Seating2009 "Best of 2008," Wired magazine2008 "Best of Tech," Yahoo Tech2008 People's Choice at the National Ergonomics Conference and Exhibition2008Magis Troy Upholstered Chair 3D Models / Revit Marcel Wanders for Magis Extending the idea of the original design for the Troy line, the Troy Upholstered Chair features a fully upholstered seat and back. Retaining the same profile as Troy’s original form, the new upholstered version brings added color, comfort, and versatility to Wanders’ design.
The chair comes in a choice of frame finishes and a wide array of textiles. Available with or without arms, Troy is equally at home around a dining table or as a guest chair in a workspace. Eames Molded Plastic Side Chair Designers: Charles and Ray EamesWith the Molded Plastic Side Chair, the Eameses created a universal response to what everyone wants from a chair: a simple, gracious form that fits any body and every place. Made of 100 percent recyclable polypropylene, the Molded Plastic Side Chair boasts a subtle matte texture and notable durability and is available in an array of colors and a variety of upholstery and base options making it an endlessly versatile option for living, dining and work spaces. Configure Your Eames Molded Plastic Side Chair Eames Molded Plastic Side Chair Dolly Charles and Ray Eames realized their first successful, single-shell form in 1950 with the Molded Fiberglass Shell Chair. However, when the environmental risks associated with fiberglass production became more widely understood, Herman Miller reintroduced the Molded Plastic Side Chair in 100 percent recyclable polypropylene.
Fulfilling the goals of every modern designer. The Molded Plastic Side Chair is available in an array of colors—in addition to a number of upholstery options—and can be configured with a choice of wire, dowel leg, stacking, and 4-leg bases. An array of trim, finely tailored Hopsak fabrics designed by Alexander Girard, Herman Miller's Textile Director from 1952 to 1973, round out the collection of shell customization options, fully restoring the integrity of the original 1953 shell chair offerings. Reproduced as faithfully as possible to Girard's original weave and color selections, the textile boasts one enhancement: it now uses more sustainable constructions and materials such as antimony-free polyester. Designer Brian Kane tells you how Swoop lounge furniture came to be. What's In It For You Product StoryDuring his time as an instructor at the California College of Art, industrial designer Brian Kane observed how students interacted with furniture in public spaces on campus.
He noticed that very few of them sat in what might be considered a traditional way. They perched on arms. This observation inspired a versatile and fluid design response, which became the Swoop family of lounge furniture. Casual, Comfortable, ModularThe sweeping curves of Swoop’s modular seating components were designed to make the furniture comfortable for many different sitting positions. Coordinating box tables can be used in-line with modular seating, and work tables fit perfectly over armrests. Coffee tables function as stools with the addition of a cushion top. All components work together in countless ways to create flexible, reconfigurable spaces where people can get together casually and comfortably. Sit HoweverWhile traditional lounge furniture inhibits movement, Swoop encourages it. Sit how you like, and change positions as you like. And when you need a work surface, pull up a table wherever you need it. Modular seating components can also be ganged together to allow a run of chairs or ottomans to create sofas or benches, which lend a sense of enclosure to help define a space.
Work WhereverSwoop seating invites collaboration, providing the necessary comfort and support to keep focus and productivity high. Swoop work tables are freestanding, with heights that fit perfectly over an armrest to provide a non-handed work surface. Add an upholstered cushion top to a work table or coffee table to create a stool. Box tables are available with power outlets for easy connectivity. Sweeping CurvesBrian Kane designed Swoop for the way people sit today—in a word, personally. Because there are no hard edges or 90-degree angles, the “swooping” form created as the arms curve into the seat accommodates a variety of postures and positions: upright with a laptop at the ready, or reclined with a cup of coffee; legs crossed, feet up, or settled in. Aesthetic RangeWith an extensive range of upholstery fabrics, veneers, laminates, and colors, Swoop also suits your personal style—from classic to expressive. Make a color statement with fully upholstered armchairs, club chairs, and ottomans.
Tone things down with the lightness of the plywood lounge chair. Combine tables and chairs for configurations that meet practically any need. A Full Family of Lounge Furniture The Swoop family includes plywood lounge chairs with exposed wood shells—a subtle reference to the iconic designs of Charles and Ray Eames—as well as fully upholstered club chairs and modular seating components. Combine them with work tables, coffee tables, or box tables in countless different ways, adding flexibility to public spaces or common areas. People have been sitting on Brian Kane designs for years. Kids and grownups sit in his very cool rubber chairs; they’re part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco MoMA. And he’s widely known as a designer of public pieces; his comfortable benches and graceful bike racks pop up on sidewalks in New York and San Francisco. In these objects, as in all his designs, Kane strives for what he calls “craft through technology. I have always attempted to explore existing materials and processes and use them in new ways that add an element of detail or craft that is unique.”
When we asked him to design lounge furniture for us, Kane says he didn’t want to create just another lounge chair. Instead, “I wanted to create a versatile and fluid lounge seating and table solution that allows people the freedom to move and create spaces that suit their needs.” So he approached the task with a single basic idea: “With traditional lounge seating, people are locked into it,” he says. “Swoop provides freedom to move around.” Kane was first introduced to the world of industrial design by a high school guidance counselor. “He pointed at his office chair, his phone, the clock, and said, ‘These were all designed by somebody.’“ recalls Kane.After graduating from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, he spent a year in New York designing appliances. Then he and his wife headed for Milan, Italy, where he literally knocked on doors. One opened—the door of architect Silvio Coppola—and it changed his life. “Seeing his passion for design was a real head-turner for me,” says Kane, who decided that designing furniture was what he wanted to do.