Proper office-swivel-chairs

[Trenchfriend]

Today, I bought a new desk-chair, because, after six years, my similar middle-classed massmarket-desk-chair had to be substituted, finally.
It's my fourth of these middle-classed (above 150 Euro) desk-chairs and their padding always lasted circa five years, +/- a half year. You can bypass with a pillow or whatever, until the new buy, but that will be ok for maximum a year.

I prefer the often called "boss-chairs", rather than the simple chairs. But this time, I'm surprised and happy, that the seating-surface of the new chair is even longer and really reaching my knees, what is very unusual for these massmarket-chairs!

As a car-driver, you just know this first important thing of the seating-surface.

And the whole quality seems a half class above my o.k.-old chair. See:


I think, there will be again nice 5 or 6 years with the new one, until the padding is over.

 

[Edward]

I'm curently renovating my flat, redecorating in a style more sympathetic to its architecture (originally built right at the start of the fifties, and opened in 1951). This is one thing that seems to be harder to find in an older style, though I did see a pretty cool one once that was made from the pilot's seat from a Sabrejet...

 

[HudsonHawk]

We have very fancy "ergonomic" chairs at the office. They cost like $1,200. Then again, I've had mine for over 10 years, and it's still perfect, so there's no denying the quality, even if you don't buy into the advertised benefit.

 

[tonyb]

As with most furniture, I'd recommend buying a high-quality secondhand (or third- or fourthhand) piece over a lesser item new.

After all, as soon as you bring a new chair home and plop your rump down on it, it is a used chair.

Some "iconic" office chairs (think Eames) have been in constant production for, like, 50 years or more. Sure, they're modern, and not everyone's cup of tea. But they look as fresh as tomorrow, and the "real" ones (as contrasted with the knockoffs, of which there are many) are exceptionally well made. If I were outfitting an office, I'd go in search of some used ones.

 

[F. J.]

When I read the title, “Proper office-swivel-chairs,” the image that popped in to my head was something like this:

Anyway, my favourite chair is a (non-swivel) sturdy wooden office chair I picked up at a local antique store. According to the label, it is a “Douglas Chair” made by the Marietta Chair Company of Marietta, Ohio. The only thing I’ve been able to find out about its age is that the company closed its doors in September of 1936.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

One of the Christmas presents from the Wife this year. Comfy

 

[tonyb]

You know you ain't a kid anymore when what you want from Santa Claus is a comfortable chair.

 

[Stearmen]

Doesn't get much more regale then this office chair! It currently resides at Goodwood house in England. It's former owner was, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. By all accounts, it is a comfortable chair.

 

[Fading Fast]

When I read the title, “Proper office-swivel-chairs,” the image that popped in to my head was something like this:

Anyway, my favourite chair is a (non-swivel) sturdy wooden office chair I picked up at a local antique store. According to the label, it is a “Douglas Chair” made by the Marietta Chair Company of Marietta, Ohio. The only thing I’ve been able to find out about its age is that the company closed its doors in September of 1936.

I love those chairs and that desk and those bookcases. Currently looking for an affordable version of the chair to go with this desk I picked up off of Ebay:

 

[HudsonHawk]

You know you ain't a kid anymore when what you want from Santa Claus is a comfortable chair.

Or the peanut brittle. That's a pretty good haul right there.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I love those chairs and that desk and those bookcases. Currently looking for an affordable version of the chair to go with this desk I picked up off of Ebay:

I think you should go with this one. The more cowhide, the better:

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^ While I appreciate the thought, it would so overwhelm my small at-home office. But that is definitely one impressive chair.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Day two, with my new chair and I'm still happy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Found mine at the dump, a late-forties vintage metal-framed leatherette office chair with a four-caster base. Had a property tag on it indicating it used to belong to the county, and it had been discarded because the clamp holding one of the wheels in place had cracked its mounting loose from the base assembly. I hammered a nickel into a curved shape, slipped it up behind the clamp to reinforce the broken part, and tightened it all into place. Total cost of chair and repair, $0.05. Been sitting in it for eight years now with no complaints.

 

[HudsonHawk]

^^^ While I appreciate the thought, it would so overwhelm my small at-home office. But that is definitely one impressive chair.

Probably a good call. I think that chair is about $12,000.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^^^
Late '40s? That's a bit too newfangled, ain't it?

 

[LizzieMaine]

When you select your office furnishings from the dump you got to take what you can find. It's a design that was pretty standard for a long time -- the manufacturer's tag suggests early postwar, but it the design was around prewar. So what the Vintage Patrol don't know won't hurt them.

It's a pretty sturdy piece of furniture regardless -- the base is a huge piece of cast aluminum, and the frame and arms are steel tubing. The leatherette seat has a gash in it, due to my habit of sitting with my feet folded under my thighs, the better to provide a stable lap for the cat, but it's nothing a strip of duct tape won't fix if I ever get around to it.

 

[tonyb]

Pretty sure I've sat on that chair's littermate a time or three.

 

[2jakes]

My old swivel chair from Bedford, Ohio.

From an old radio station building. Paid $25.
The petrified chewing gum under the seat came
at no extra charge.

 

[Trenchfriend]

If I ever will buy a new desk in my life and dispose the old from 2001, I would definetely buy a classic one, without printer-shelf, to roll and sit under it, correctly.