Used & new (14) from $415.00 Ships from and sold by BACKSTORE. Steelcase Leap Chair, Black Fabric Kensington SoleMate Adjustable Footrest with Comfort Memory Foam (K56144USF) FREE Shipping. Buy a Used "Steelcase Leap Chair, Black Fabric" and save 57% off the $942.00 list price. About The Leap Chair The Leap chair has quickly become one of Steelcase's flagship products. With an exceptional range of adjustments, Leap delivers full support for all body shapes and sizes. Leap's LiveBack technology flexes to change shape as your back changes shape, providing stable support and encouraging unrestricted movement. Its separate controls for lower back firmness and upper back force easily adjust for all day comfort. Up to 98% Recyclable Leap has received Silver Cradle to Cradle Product Certification from MBDC and also has Indoor Advantage certification from Scientific Certification Systems as being a low emitting product. An easily movable lumbar support bar can be positioned to fit comfortably into the curve of your lower back for additional back support.
Upper back force controls the amount of 'push back' as you recline. Variable back stop sets the angle of recline to one of five positions. The firmness tension knob allows you to set the amount of firmness you need to help maintain your lower spine's natural curve. Eliminate kinks in wrists, elbows, and neck. Arms adjust in four directions (height, width, depth, pivot) so you can find a natural and supportive position. 24.8 x 27 x 43.2 inches 4.2 out of 5 stars #8,230 in Home and Garden (See top 100) #112 in Office Products > Office Furniture & Accessories > Chairs & Sofas > Desk Chairs 64 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Product Warranty: For warranty information about this product, please Steelcase Think Chair, Blue Jay 3D Knit Steelcase Amia Fabric Chair, Black 5 star71%4 star10%3 star7%2 star6%1 star6%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsQuality seems to have done downhill|Bad back, hips, disability.....
This is a game changer!|Substantial lower back pain relief.|There's a reason it costs $900+| See and discover other items: ergonomic chair, fabric chairNine new ways, in fact, to which the company has given names like the Cocoon (reclining, feet on the seat, legs drawn in), the Take It In (slumped way back, arms relaxed while you watch a video) and the Strunch (a stretched hunch from chair edge to table, laptop pushed far away from you, chin propped up with nondominant hand). According to Steelcase, if you don’t have the right chair, each of these new postures can lead to fatigue, pain and injury. For example, hunching forward to see your laptop “leads to disc compression, excess pressure on the neck and strain on the back and shoulders.” If your chair’s arms don’t support yours when you’re using the mouse for a long time, you can get “unnatural twisting of the wrists, hands, elbows and shoulders.”And it’s important to move around, to shift, to avoid hours in the same position.
Otherwise, you might “decrease blood flow in the legs.”The fruit of all of this research, study and philosophizing is the new Steelcase Gesture chair, available later this fall for $980 and up (depending on whether you opt for leather, vinyl, cloth and so on). It’s supposed to be the ultimate work chair — “a new sitting experience,” the company asserts.It certainly is comfortable. Both the seat and the back are deeply padded and expansive; you could even, if you wanted, sit with your legs tucked under you, or partly so. The arms are connected to the chair behind you, so they don’t block your thigh should you decide to swing it over the side.And it certainly is adjustable. Like most office chairs, you can make this one taller or shorter when you press a lever on the chair’s stem. The chair spins easily and rolls extremely easily on its five ball-bearing feet, which, as my 8-year-old can attest, is loads of fun. The back can recline very far — farther than any other Steelcase chair — without risk of toppling backward, which is never a good way to score points in the office.
You can adjust the tension on the spring, too, so that it goes back and forward more or less easily. You can lock the back into one of five angles with the flip of a lever. All the controls are on the right side, below seat level.By turning a knob, you can move the seat forward or backward relative to the back, to accommodate the longer or shorter of limb.The armrests are miracles of mobility. By squeezing a lever under each one, you can move them fluidly and independently up or down, inward or outward. And in any of these positions, you can rotate the armrests. The designers also put a lot of thought into where to end the chair’s various pieces. For example, the arms are short enough that they don’t get in the way when you want to pull up close to the table or desk. And the back doesn’t extend past your torso. It doesn’t block or restrict you when you turn to around to yell, “Hey, Frank! Do we have any C-120s in stock?”Finally, a shout-out to whoever had the idea of wrapping the padding all the way around all four sides of the seat’s edges.
Suppose, for example, that you wanted to assume a position that’s not among the Steelcase Nine. That’s entirely possible, thanks to this all-the-way-around padding; you can hang a limb over any of the seat’s edges without worrying about getting gangrene.(Don’t try that with the famous Herman Miller Aeron chair. Its sharp, rigid seat edges could lop your leg right off.) And, so, yes: This is a wonderful chair. It’s supremely comfortable, impressively adjustable, exceptionally supportive.And yes, it’s also true that we work in weird new positions these days.What’s not so clear is Steelcase’s claim that these two statements are connected.In other words, just how much of a breakthrough is the Gesture chair? After you clear away the smoke from those arguments about our modern mobile gadgets, is the Gesture actually any more flexible than its rivals?I made a pilgrimage to a couple of high-end office-furniture stores to find out. And here’s the baffling thing that I discovered: The Gesture is, at best, only a small advance.
It seems to be intended as a body blow at the Herman Miller Embody chair, which may not come with marketing materials about 2,000 people in 11 countries, but which you can adjust in nearly identical ways. The chair goes up and down, the seat goes forward and back, the back reclines a lot, the armrests go up and down and inward and outward.The Gesture wins this round, though. The Embody chair costs much more ($1,300), and is slightly less adjustable; its armrests don’t rotate. More mysteriously, the Gesture isn’t even that much of a leap beyond the Leap, Steelcase’s own earlier adjusto-chair and its most popular model. You can adjust the Leap in most of the same ways as the Gesture, but it costs less.The Leap is a more responsible choice, too: 94 percent of it is recyclable, and 30 percent of it is made of recycled material (well, “up to” 30 percent). It, too, is available in various colors of cloth or leather.Now, the Gesture looks much more modern, much more sculptural and much classier.
It says “high-tech executive” more than “worker bee with sciatica.” But all that stuff about a “new sitting experience” — that’s clearly baloney.And it’s possible to find nits to pick even with the Gesture. You can’t change the angle of the seat, if you care. And the armrests are hard plastic; a little cushioning wouldn’t hurt.So yeah, the company’s attempt to connect its conclusions — “we sit differently these days, and it’s healthy to shift positions often” — with its latest chair may reek of marketing department desperation.But the conclusions themselves are sound. We do sit differently these days, and we should shift positions often.Fortunately, there are plenty of chairs that will serve you well in these departments. The Gesture is an excellent candidate, but so are the Leap, the Embody and others. You don’t have to pay these steep, designery prices, either; many other ergonomic chairs, made with more plastic and fewer adjustments, are available in much lower price ranges.