Time to put that “The best…” category to a little more use by appointing Mirra from Herman Miller “The best work chair I have ever seen”.

I love good design, the kind where both aesthetics and functionality are perfect, where the first doesn’t compromise the other. And with the level of complexity involved, achieving those goals in a work chair must be one of the greatest challenges for a designer.

Since I havn’t actually sat on one, I can’t really speak for the functionality aspect, but by the looks of it the designers seem to have thought of just everything that involves comfort, support and adjustability.

And the aesthetics then… it’s perfect. It manages to be eyecatching, but at the same time it is so neutral that I can imagine that chair in just about any environment. And looking closer, it appears that all of it derives from the main aspect of a work chair which is, as mentioned before, functionality.

But it is a chair in the thousand dollar range, and that’s a bit out of my reach. But god knows we (me and my lumbar) could use a proper chair.