Comments on: Aeron Armchair

By: Robert Blaich

Robert Blaich — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:35:41 +0000

Bill,
This is the Iconic office chair of it’s time. I had the honor of bringing both Bill stumpf and Don Chadwick the designers of the chair to Herman Miller in the 1970’s. The chair was designed after I left to join Royal Philips Electronics in 1980 and I have used one ever since and can recommend it to everyone. I Suggest that you spell Bill Stumpf’s name correctly.

By: jerome chadel

jerome chadel — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:42:17 +0000

It ooks like very complex and busy at the first sight. I hope it’s confortable!

By: Vlad Kunko

Vlad Kunko — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:39:42 +0000

Putting it next to Herman Sperlich’s 1938 Ironrite Health Chair (considered one of the first ergonomic chairs) for contrast, one can see Bill Stumph’s genius and wizardry with materials and physiology in taking the design process to its fruition. Health as a moral imperative should be on every designer’s ethical checklist.

By: Jason Mesut

Jason Mesut — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:58:56 +0000

Love my Aeron. Picked mine up as I was leaving my old company. They just happened to be chucking some away – I had to grab one. After a bot if a cement dust cleanup, it came out like new and takes pride of place in my little studio.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:49:46 +0000

The style grabbed me, the high price put me off. Then I sat in one at an office furniture store and while the price seemed more justified, I still couldn’t push myself to place an order.

For several years, I’d been forced to get chiropractic adjustments for back pain and was getting frustrated that the chiropractor was becoming my new best, well paid, friend. I could tell it was getting to about time for another expensive session and decided to see if all the hype about the Aeron was good marketing or the real deal.

My back was hurting when the Aeron arrived but slowly the pain got less and less and, since ordering my Aeron, I haven’t needed to get another chiropractic adjustment for my back! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t actually experienced it.

I get occasional “checking how you’re doing” calls from the chiropractor’s staff because I haven’t been in for several years. I credit it all to getting what may be the most perfectly designed office chair on the market today.

By: Raoul Duke

Raoul Duke — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:24:14 +0000

Anything that needs interactive video stuff to teach you how to use it… not such a win for me, personally. I’d rather have a Stokke [And, yes, OK, some of that is probably down to the fact that I never got one free in all my years in Silicon Valley whereas all my friends at SGI etc. had them. So even when I had the chance to expense whatever chair I wanted when I worked at MSFT I went for something else, simpler.]

By: Trevor van Gorp

Trevor van Gorp — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:04:31 +0000

In some ways, sitting in the Aeron feels like joining with a mechanical extension of my own body. And the visual impression created by the muscular mechanics of the undercarriage support the creation of that feeling.

By: Andy Polaine

Andy Polaine — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:34:28 +0000

I bought a Leap chair instead of an Aeron, because the Leap is billed as the “world’s most ergonomic chair”. I sold the Leap and bought an Aeron instead and much prefer it. There are actually less adjustment settings on the Aeron and the lumbar support isn’t so good, even with the lumbar support addition, but it’s much more comfortable. The only problem is that is gradually shaves my clothes and leaves loads of dust on the back components of the chair (mainly particles of my clothing).

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:31:29 +0000

At first sight, there’s too much going on here. I wonder if there’s a big instruction manual to go along? Sorry, but it looks like a seat out of a helicopter cockpit.

I would love something more minimalistic and simple to use, while at the same time providing comfort.

By: Stanley See

Stanley See — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:24:54 +0000

A success of function over aesthetics. The designers kept only functionality in mind, and while product testers hated it for its design, it succeeded in a world where looks govern commercial success