Embody Chair Videos
Some of the most useful content we’ve found to tell you what you need to know about the Embody Chair.
The Importance of Thermal Comfort
A chair should “breathe;” its surface materials should provide comfort and allow conduction of heat and dispersion of moisture away from the surface of the sitters’ skin. A work chair should have a neutral effect on body surface temperatures, so that thermal comfort is not posture-dependent. What We Know People are more comfortable when ambient temperatures are neutral, allowing the body to maintain thermal…
First Impressions of the Embody Chair
Smart Furniture employees first parked their rumps in the Embody Chair back in February 2009. Below are some of our staff’s initial reactions to Herman Miller’s innovative creation. Here at Smart Furniture we were lucky enough to be among the first to try out the Embody Chair when we received our first model from Herman Miller. After reading initial press releases about it online and seeing…
Herman Miller Embody Chair Review
Mark Rico of Smart Furniture Spends a Week in the Embody Chair The folks here at Smart Furniture were curious about Herman Miller’s Embody Chair and how well it would affect their everyday work environment—so what better way to figure it out than to just sit in one! Mark Rico, our resident content specialist and SketchUp guru, has graciously accepted the opportunity to sit on Embody…
Matt Reviews the Aeron® Chair
Everyone’s reviewing things these days. You’ll find independent reviews, purchaser’s reviews, and reviews that are just trying to pump up the product so you want to buy it. Well, we thought we’d get in on all the fun with an Aeron Chair review of our own. We figured that the best person to review a chair would be someone who sits in it daily, knows the…
The Aeron Chair in Pop Culture
What does it mean when a product that was produced and distributed in the business world makes its way into the cultural centers of the country? When it becomes a fixture of art museums and television programs, when the identity and the look of the chair become copied and repeated until they become the standard for the industry? When pop culture seizes on a…
The Aeron Chair in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink
It is undeniable that the Herman Miller Aeron Chair has become a lasting staple of industrial design over the last two decades. Without the truly groundbreaking inventiveness and verve that the chair possessed, many of the advancements in office chair technology and ergonomics that we know and love today would have been delayed, or even permanently put off. Without innovations like the PostureFit feature…
Charles Eames
Charles Eames was the driving force behind the Eames’, and before he met his wife Ray, he worked very successfully for many years. It was he who founded the architectural office in 1930, and he who set the tone for the earthy, radical designs that would make them famous. Born in St. Louis in 1907, Charles showed an interest in architecture and engineering, pursuits…
Younger Furniture: Younger Furniture:
Since the great exodus of the 1990s, North Carolina, the once furniture capital of the world, looks more like a showroom than industrial giant. Younger Furniture never got the outsourcing memo, and while other brands were moving production to China and Indonesia, Younger kept building great sofas in their High Point manufacturing facility. American-made quality is still around, and as long as Younger has…
Younger Furniture: Company Insights with Meredith Spell
As the daughter of Michael Younger, the founder of Younger Furniture, Meredith Spell has seen the company grow over the last 30 years. She was kind enough to talk to us about what makes Younger tick, why they’re awesome, and what they’re doing to remain a quality American company. Thanks so much for taking the time to answer these questions! I’ll start out with…