See how this product can contribute to your environmental goals. Herman Miller's Sayl Chair Earns Inaugural Core77 Design Award Herman Miller's Sayl Chair Awarded IDEA Silver Herman Miller's Sayl Chair Receives IDA "Product Design of the Year" Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) awards the Sayl side chair a Bronze Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) in the category of Office and Productivity. Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) awards a Silver Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) to the Sayl family of seating. Sayl chair wins Reader's Choice award in TreeHugger's Best of Green: Design and Architecture category. Sayl chair named "Product Design of the Year" by the 2010 International Design Awards (IDA) jury. 3D Models / Revit What's In It For You Design Your Own Side Chair Attainable Quality and Design Sayl side chairs can move seamlessly from conference to work group and back again. They have been designed to take up less visual space, and you can stack the 4-leg version up to four high for easy storage.
Lots of options—back, base, arms, colors. Elegant styling at an attainable price. Design Your Own Side ChairGet the side chair that looks right and works right for you. You can have a chair with a 4-leg base and glides or casters, with or without arms. Or choose a chair with a cantilever base with or without arms. You can have a suspension similar to the 3D Intelligent suspension back on the work chair, or a familiar upholstered back. Sayl side chairs are available in a wide array of classic and expressive back and seat colors, so you can have a single chair or an officeful that will sit beautifully in your environment, whatever it is. Eco-Dematerialized DesignYves Béhar is big on environmental responsibility in design. With Sayl, he went a step farther, starting the design process by thinking about what could be removed. How could we use the least possible material and still achieve the highest standards? The answer, of course, was to use materials in innovative ways.
We produce Sayl side chairs on three continents to reduce the distance between factory and buyer. Sayl side chairs contain no PVCs and are up to 92 percent recyclable. Sayl chairs are currently GREENGUARD certified and under evaluation for McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) Cradle to Cradle Design Protocol as well as level 2 certification. As affordable as it is inventive, Sayl disproves the notion that a reasonably priced chair means offhand design and minimal ergonomics. From the beginning, our goal was to make a high-quality, beautifully designed, comfortable work and side chairs that lived up to our standards and were also affordable. Sayl is that chair. We asked designer Yves Béhar to design a highly affordable chair that would incorporate everything Herman Miller is known for—beautiful design, first-class ergonomics, elegant engineering, and respect for the environment. Béhar, who calls San Francisco home, began by looking at designs that deliver the most with the least.
And then he took a look at his city's best-known landmark: the Golden Gate Bridge. It was one of those aha! Béhar wondered, could the engineering principles of a suspension bridge be applied to a chair? It turned out that, not only was it possible, but using a suspension tower to support an unframed back would reduce materials, weight, and environmental impact. The flexible elastomer suspension material could be stretched in a way that provided the greatest tension at points where support is needed and the least in areas that would allow for the most expansive range of motion. So why "Sayl", rather than, say, "Bridge"? Take a look at the chair from the side. See the resemblance to a full mainsail? The name reflects the sailing vessels that pass beneath the bridges that inspired the original design. Replacing the "i" in "sail" with a "y" is a nod to the innovative Y-Tower structure of the work chair.By rethinking every part of the chair, Béhar and our development team were able to create a better, smarter chair that sets a new reference point in its class for performance, quality, and appearance.
Click on image to zoom Designers: Bill Stumpf and Don ChadwickWhen Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick designed the Herman Miller Aeron Chair, they combined a deep knowledge of human-centered design with never-before-seen technology to create a task chair unlike any other. Now Aeron has been remastered in practically every way to create an office chair that better supports people and the types of work we do today. Configure Your Aeron Chair Add to Wish List While its iconic form has remained largely unchanged, the Aeron Chair has been remastered from the casters up. With the help of Don Chadwick, the chair’s original co-designer, we updated Aeron to incorporate more than 20 years of research on the science of sitting, as well as advancements in materials, manufacturing, and technology. “It’s going to be a whole new experience, and yet the chair is still going to be an Aeron chair.” Get into the Zones Across Aeron's 8Z Pellicle elastomeric suspension seat and backrest, eight latitudinal zones of varying tension envelop you as you sit, delivering greater comfort and ergonomic support.
The new 8Z Pellicle also allows body heat to pass through to help maintain an even and comfortable skin temperature. A Stance Worth Backing An active body is at its strongest when standing, chest open and pelvis tilted slightly forward. PostureFit SL supports your spine to give you the same benefit while seated. Adjustable, individual pads provide lumbar support and stabilize the base of the spine for a more powerful seated posture. If You're So Reclined Sitting in one position reduces the natural pumping action of the muscles that deliver nutrients to the spine. As you sit in Aeron, however, the tilt allows the chair to move seamlessly with your body, so shifting between forward and reclining postures is smooth and balanced throughout the entire range of recline. A Whole New Aeron Aeron is available in three tightly curated, holistic material expressions. Graphite is the darkest, a modern rendition of the classic Aeron look. Carbon offers a balanced neutral for a modern chair that works equally well in both warm and cool environments.