By watching hundreds of hours of video and conducting in-depth interviews with workers of all ages, in all disciplines, Knoll and Formway Design recognized that the basic assumption about office seating — that there are only a few optimal ways to sit while at work — was flawed. In fact, their investigation showed that sitting upright and facing forward was just one of the ways people use their office chairs. Shifting, stretching, rotating, leaning, and reclining not only relieve boredom but are essential to our ability to stay energized and collaborate with colleagues. Understanding that no combination of adjustment levers could make a chair equally comfortable in each of those positions, Formway sought to achieve an elastic design—the idea that a product would rearrange itself in response to a user’s movements. After years of design and development, spent considering and reconsidering every component of the chair, Formway arrived at a truly innovative design. With a revolutionary new material for the chair’s back and a form that anticipates and allows for a multitude of body positions, Generation achieves Knoll and Formway’s mission to help workers sit how they want.
It is truly the next generation of seating. Welcome to our Price List Library. All downloads are in PDF format and require Adobe 5.0 or higher. This refreshingly simple chair combines ergonomic pioneer Don Chadwick's best thinking with the finest principles of Knoll design. From its streamlined, athletic form, to its smart engineering, Chadwick is the desk chair refined — and redefined. Retail price of current configuration: Estimated Delivery: 2-3 weeks Shipping & Delivery Info Don Chadwick, who has dedicated his career to understanding the complex relationship between humans and furniture, proves that comfort and simplicity can coexist. Having realized that abundant controls in no way ensure comfort, he designed a smarter chair — one that is adjusted not by the user but instead adjusts to the user. Through innovative design and expert engineering, Chadwick® takes the burden of comfort out of the user’s hand. One of the world’s foremost experts in ergonomics, Don Chadwick received his principal design training at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He then worked for architect Victor Gruen before establishing his own practice in 1964. Over the last several decades, Don Chadwick has pioneered the use of modern materials, molding processes, and mechanisms to revolutionize the field of ergonomic chair design. In 1994, Chadwick designed the landmark Aeron Chair for Herman Miller, catapulting him to national attention. In collaboration with Knoll, Chadwick applied his expertise to develop the Chadwick Chair in 2005. He returned to Knoll in 2009 to introduce the Spark Series. Knoll Design Director, Benjamin Pardo said of the Spark: "Don worked within the architectural constraints of the chair without adding unnecessary embellishments or sacrificing comfort. Spark's subtle design allows it to change personality through color, texture and pattern. This subtlety brings an enduring quality to the design that is consistent with our modern design heritage at Knoll."The performance you need – the upholstered comfort you love. Inspired by the idea of bringing pre-existing elements together to make something entirely new, Remix pairs upholstered comfort with innovative Flex Net Matrix™ technology for active, all day support.
Remix delivers unexpected performance in a familiar form. By combining traditional and innovative elements, Remix infuses movement into a traditionally static upholstered chair.It’s difficult to get excited about office chairs. Especially now, with study after study claiming that sitting all day is killing you, and with every reputable source advising you to spend more time standing up and moving around than you spend sitting. Knoll ReGeneration Desk Chair Base price climbs quickly once you add the options — which you must to get the lumbar plate and the articulating arms. Seat isn’t as breathable as a suspension web seat of competing designs. A complete failure in every way Solid with some issues Very good, but not quite great Excellent, with room to kvetch I’ve read all those articles, too, and I do plan on switching to a standing workstation very soon. I’ve even selected all the parts to convert my desk. So the irony is not lost on me that I’ve spent the last three months sitting in what is easily the most comfortable office chair I’ve ever used.
It’s like a bad movie where the man meets the woman of his dreams on the eve of his wedding to another bride. My little homewrecker of a desk chair is called the Knoll ReGeneration. It’s the furniture giant’s latest addition to its line of mesh-backed desk chairs with the Generation name — we reviewed the premium model last year. Compared to the company’s previous Generation design, the ReGeneration is lighter, more compact, and less expensive. Compared to the company’s previous Generation design, the ReGeneration is lighter, more compact, and less expensive. Knoll has also upped the treehugger quotient; the elastomer net on the back of the chair makes use of corn by-products, and the foam in the seat cushion is partially sourced from soy-based materials. The structural design is also very minimal, using as little plastic as possible and eschewing the shell that manufacturers commonly use to cover the innards. Almost half of each ReGeneration is made from recycled materials when you add it all up (44 percent if you choose the plastic base, and 48 percent if you choose the aluminum base, according to Knoll).
This eco-minded approach extends all the way down to how it’s packaged and shipped. It comes in two halves that squeeze into a remarkably compact box, and it weighs less than 30 pounds. The environmental gains here are obvious: more of the chairs can be stuffed into a shipping container, and it’s less impactful to get one delivered to your door. Assembly is a no-brainer — just insert the barrel into the base, where it clicks into place — and adjustments are equally simple. Beneath the seat are the levers you’d expect for adjusting the height and seat depth, and for locking the reclining mechanism. My favorite bit of adjustment, however, is the optional lumbar support found on the back of my loaner. It’s a rigid plate that’s split vertically down the centerline by what looks like an oversized plastic zipper. To adjust the point where the support is the stiffest, move the zipper up and down. All of this flexibility in adjustment means there’s zero fuss in dialing in a comfortable, healthy position.
Lean back slightly (as my doctor tells me I should be doing all the time while at my desk), and the curved back hugs your spine. In this ideal position, the chair props you up with just the right amount of stiffness while still allowing you to keep your back muscles relaxed. More impressive is how the chair handles uncomfortable positions. I have pretty terrible desk posture — lots of slouching, leaning, and one-shoulder hunches — so I’m off-balance much of the time. The undercarriage feels springy when you’re just sitting normally and staying centered in the seat, but it gets more rigid when you list sideways or lean forward. Of course, you only notice this if you’re thinking about it. To test the chair’s range of adjustment, I passed it around to a few office-mates of different shapes and sizes. I’m six feet tall, but my co-worker who’s almost a full foot shorter than me could also find a comfortable position in it — a first for her, since every other office chair she’s ever used has left her feet dangling.
I’ve spent most of my days in the past six years sitting in three chairs: a Herman Miller Aeron (with which you’re no doubt familiar), a Steelcase conference room chair, and a nameless hunk of cheap plastic much like what most of you are sitting in right now. The Knoll is closest to the Herman Miller Aeron in design, though it’s both smaller and more comfortable. The Knoll’s padded cushion is more comfortable and supportive than the Aeron’s diaphanous suspension seat, though not as breathable. We sit on our asses all day, and our relationships with our chairs are more intimate than we’d prefer them to be. Even those of us who have joined the mass defection to the world of standing desks are still spending a not-insignificant portion of the workday sitting (a 70-30 split between standing and sitting is recommended). Thus, a good chair is a sound investment, and logic dictates you should buy the best chair you can afford. The ReGeneration starts at $676 with arms, and $540 without.