Herman Miller Aeron Chairs
Why design a new chair when there are already so many good ones? Who else but a supremely rich and powerful furniture maker like an executive ergonomic chair would have the hubris to launch its new flagship chair by linking it with ”Back Pain Awareness Day”? Chicago Mayor Richard Daley made the official proclamation this past June, in conjunction with Herman Miller Aeron Chairs introduction of its Leap chair at the NeoCon ’04 trade show, where it won Most Innovative Design and Gold awards.
The most interesting trend in seating to emerge this year is the inspired new crop of chairs that address the rising incidence of back pain in the workplace. Leap, along with Teknion’s Amicus chair and Humanscale’s Freedom chair, is a shot across the bows at arch-rival Herman Miller, which set the benchmark for high-end task chairs when it brought out the Aeron chair.
