Almost everyone knows the Aeron chair as a high-tech design classic. But few people know that its true origins lie in a 10-year effort to create furniture for the elderly. After the great dotcom bust ...
The Aeron kicked off the modern ergonomic chair revolution in 1994, standing on the shoulders of the granddaddy of ergo chairs, Herman Miller's 1976 Ergon. And 30 years after its first release, it's ...
Everyone’s always chasing the best office chair – especially as working from home is still very much part of the norm. I’ve been lucky enough to try quite a few over the last few years, and if there’s ...
Like many great innovations, the Aeron was a spin on a different product that never panned out. In the late 1980s, Herman Miller, which had long outfitted offices with armchairs, desks and lamps, went ...
After the great dot-com bust of 2000, there was one lasting symbol of the crash: Herman Miller’s Aeron chair. The ergonomic, mesh-backed office chair was launched in 1994, at the start of the bubble; ...
The Herman Miller Aeron is the world’s most iconic task chair, designed in 1994 for a world where people were spending increasing hours in front of their computer screens. Nearly 20 years later, the ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A perfectly sturdy, well-built beast of a gaming chair, with a corporate design and great ...
We’ve all heard that old saying ‘if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.’ But that’s not what the maker of the bestselling office chair of all time said. Let’s go back to 1994, the year a global design ...