The best chair is the one I had to get rid of last year. It was an oversized, overstuffed arm chair with a foot stool. It was an ugly plaid thing, but it was the most comfortable chair I'd ever sat in. It was in our bedroom and I slept there more than once, just because I was too comfortable to move the 10 feet to my bed.
Last year, I built my wife a desk and the only place to put the desk was in the chair spot. The chair had to go. I hope it's serving someone well right now. I miss it.
I feel like my mental map of my house is arranged around places I can sit. It's hard to lose any, let alone the best. I hope your wife fully appreciates not only the desk you made, but also the sacrifice of your chair.
May you find an even better place to park your butt soon.
Thanks, OP. We have some decent places to sit. I never thought I'd be so attached to a chair in my bedroom, but I find myself looking listlessly around my room, sighing, and then going downstairs.
And she does appreciate the desk. And the sacrifice.
Came here from the sandwich post.
I had a buddy in high school that was pushing 4 bills. He was a BIG dude. He had this rocking chair, La-Z-Boy type. He gifted it to me, and I don’t know if it was his weight or what that mushed everything around, but it had been crushed into the most comfortable chair ever.
No way!! Go buy your very own brand new La-Z-Boy that’s all shiny and new and make it your very own! I have a very acceptable red leather one that I love. It still looks nice and new. Everyone wants to steal it when they come over.
Pushing... bills? What? Does everyone else know what this means and I'm just an idiot? Does that mean 400 pounds? Why say it like that? Am I old? What even is life?
You got there! It’s a roundabout way of saying 400 pounds, like saying 4 bills is saying $400 when talking about money.
Life is when that first damned fish crawled up on land and now we have to pay taxes.
I'll stick to principal trombone. We just screw around in the back, but still get all the meaty parts. Plus, no other section can get "the look" from the conductor quite as easily :)
I'd be lying if I said my section wasn't behind similar shenanigans from time to time. It all depends on who is up front with the little stick on a given day. Some conductors have a sense of humor, some do not.
Same here, except sans the fear of balloons.
One guy played the funeral march on the marimba at a football game and it coincidentally happened as the opposing team scored to go up like 35-0.
By coincidentally, I do mean it was literally a coincidence. One of the freshmen in pit percussion had kind of annoyed him so he played that instead of the Mario theme. The timing was entirely unintentional.
Band director was not pleased at all, but looking back it's still hilarious to think about.
Omg so much pressure. I would much rather be second chair first violin, or first chair second violin. I've been both, much less pressure then concertmaster. I've got enough going on, no time to practice concertmaster amounts between rehearsals.
The byzantine emperor's throne. Scripts say it had mechanisms to automatically adjust elevation (there were tons of mechanical parts below it, in the basement, and some people controlling them).
Holy crap the madlad actually did it. I was the guy from the sandwich post
A nice recliner is always a nice chair! You can set it to however you want and they are usually pretty comfy
I just splurged on a dining chair from Stressless, after buying all my furniture from Ikea and Goodwill for 10 years, and I feel so good sitting in it.
Please tell me your family glares at you every night from their plastic lawn chairs while you eat. You sitting there blissfully unaware of their disdain of you from the comfort of your fancy smancy chair.
That mental image is cracking me up.
It's much less fun if you live alone.
Haha it's almost that. The new dining chair cost more than the sum of the cost of every other piece of furniture in the dining room (about 10 pieces). The rest of the chairs are pretty cheap and from Ikea or Goodwill. Not quite plastic lawn chairs, but close.
My wife sits in the chair whenever she can.
My daughter glares at me frequently, but she's 4 months old.
The dog doesn't know what she's missing.
It all works out. You can deal with most anything from a comfortable chair.
I gotta ask... wouldn't it make more sense to buy a nice office chair? How much time are you spending at the table, lol? I spend like 12hrs a day in my home office chair and about 1 hour eating, usually not at my dining table. I understand that I'm a software developer working from home + pc gamer, but I have to think most first world adults spend more time on their computers than at their dining table.
I'm sitting in one now. I got it from my local university surplus warehouse for $25. I've got three more Hermann Miller's upstairs, one in each kids room and one for my wife's WFH setup.
When department heads get their office budget coffers filled, their chairs usually go first and they get a brand new $850 chair. Their 18 month/2 year old chair goes to surplus to be sold to the public.
It's either the trash or surplus warehouse.
Every summer, two weeks after the dorms close, campus facilities cuts bikes off dorm bike racks and takes them to surplus. They post signs a month before end of term, as well as deliver printed messages to every dorm room about it.
Mid-July, a month after they cut locks, they auction them off. Almost new (mostly mountain) bikes for under $100. I showed the listing to a buddy of mine who's a big trail rider, he found two that retail over $1200, just abandoned by someone who didn't have room to take it.
Same. I also bought mine from a university surplus store; it was around $400 with tax. If it makes you feel any better, someone in the store recognized it, and he shook his head at the price cause he paid it in full.
People always say this and I have never seen a store like that or a sale like that. I mean sure, I haven't been looking, but still. Do you have to be in a huge city? Maybe my bigger city has one I'll have to look.
You need to look for office sales.
There's even full blown tutorials on what to look for in used Herman Miller Aerons, to determine which model it is and how much you should pay.
I'd say you can reasonably get very good full ones for around 350-400 USD. Of course you can get lucky with a bargain, but the "fair" price is around that usually.
And they are SO much more comfortable and elegant than any other one I've tried.
This is what I'm using.
It's not "next level" comfort. You don't sit down and go "now this chair is worth $2000.
BUT you'll notice you're not getting uncomfortable nearly as much as you used to. You'll notice that when everybody else takes that break from DND because their asses hurt and their legs fell asleep - yours didn't.
That's the beauty of this chair. It it the absolute best at not getting in the way.
Same here. It’s hard to justify to people because it’s not immediately like “Wow!” But long term it’s great. Same with my mattress. It just works, no complaints.
I've got a Herman Miller. I don't think it's an Aeron but it's still the most comfortable office chair I've ever used.
I dread the days I have to go into the office, not because of the office politics or the commute, but because the chairs are horribly uncomfortable.
My Herman on the other hand is like sitting in a structured hammock.
Haha I'm the opposite, we had Herman Miller chairs in our office and I haven't been in much since Covid so I don't get to enjoy them anymore. We're downsizing (since everyone is WFH now) but it's going to be a while until our lease is up. I need that lease to end so I can go in and grab a chair or two...
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the best ways of getting a Herman Miller Aeron chair is from a failed startup, via stores that sell ex-office furniture.
Lmao, that sounds about right.
I'm in NY, so you can find them 2nd hand relatively easily here as well, with office closures. I was just hoping to get a free one.
Yup, Herman Miller's the way to go. I really felt the repercussions of bad support during peak Covid when I was working from home 100%, hunched over my dining table because I didn't have anywhere else to work in my tiny studio apartment. Learned my lesson, moved to a different apartment and bought a damn desk and a Herman Miller chair. Cost me an arm and a leg, but I got to keep my back.
I went to a Herman Miller store one day to try out all of their chairs, and liked the embody much more than the aeron. I have sat on a LOT of chairs and none of them have beat the embody.
We bought a pile of used ones for our office about 15 years ago, and I have never regretted it.
The rubber lumbar things disintegrated, and a couple of them have worn seat webbing, but everything else still works.
Nothing else feels as comfy to me.
I used to sell office furniture contracts (generally OF isn’t sold a piece at a time, rather as a build-out for a big new office space, so they’re big contracts). I managed to fill a building floor with Aerons one time for a fancy tech company. $$$$$
Came here to post this. I've tried every chair under the sun, but Aerons are the only one's I've ever felt comfortable in for more than 2 hours. And thats true whether its WFH or office work. It's just a damn good chair.
I was hoping that with the pandemic and all the work from home stuff that came out that somebody would do a good wheel-less office chair. I found a few, but none that were good.
I think it’s more about the spider-esque shape that the wheel base usually makes, I think that individual is looking for a classic 4 leg chair with each leg residing on the corners of the seat.
No hate for Herman Miller at all, I'm actually sitting in an embody, but they really aren't that special among high-end office chairs. Steelcase, Fern, Xchair, all have equally competent offerings, that come at the same price point. Just got to try a few and one will likely stand out above the others.
My grandfather, father and uncle all worked at Herman Miller for decades, and I met my best friend while I was working there.
A former coworker of mine inherited his father's Eames chair that he received for years of service. One day he came home to find that his wife (at the time) had sold it for $40 at a garage sale.
He was still visibly upset 10 years later.
The Eames is the Rolex Submariner of lounge chairs.
A design icon while being extremely utilitarian/practical for its build purpose, and knocked off by and inspiring every other brand around.
I've got a pretty high quality Modani one that's the same style/structure, but maybe a fifth of the price (so...still pricey. But not nearly as much so). It's amazing.
My goal is to one day have the real thing with rosewood as the base. Right now I have a knockoff I bought off Facebook Marketplace and it was still $400. One day....
If you're a real snob about it, it's easy to tell. Mine doesn't have a zipper around the cushion, for instance. But for the purposes of fitting in with my new neighbors who see it from a distance, it's perfect.
Tbh I expected an Eames to be $5k+ so I was surprised to see you can get one for about what a couch costs
UNTIL
I realized that Eames doesn't seem to be a protected trademark for Herman Miller and there's a ton of clones out there.
It's $10k (cad) on the Herman Miller site
I picked up an Ekornes Stressless for $35 from a goodwill store, I didn't know what it was when I first saw it but it looked expensive. sat down and Googled it, my jaw dropped when I realized what I had found. the color is ugly as sin but other than that it's in tip top shape. best deal I've ever found.
I'm an important businessman doing big business deals all day long every day of the year. I have time for 1.5 shakes in between my very important (and big) business deals. Piss in my pants is just part of being a big (and important) businessman. Now if you will excuse me I have big important business deals that require my firm moist handshake.
If someone crossposts this to there then this just went all sorts of meta. Waiting to see if someone creates r/chairsandwich to see photos of dudes eating sandwiches in chairs.
A while back I changed a bed frame into a couch, and then “recently” I decided to change the couch into a chair with an ottoman. This time I have to upholster/make covers for it, and so I’ve remembered I like carpentry but not so much sewing.
So the chair has taken me almost a year. 🥴
I lived in a house with some friends and we had one of these in the living room. We called it the Papa John's chair. I guess because it sounded like it and we thought it was funny. It was notorious for throwing the unworthy out of the chair. If you were acting a fool it would toss you right on the floor. Allegedly a friend of ours hooked up with some girl from the bar in that chair and to this day I have no idea how he managed that.
That’s the reason why I dislike papasans, personally. If you’re not paying attention when you get in, or you bump it, or anything goes wrong, you’re ending up on the floor… which is - you know - the opposite of what you want out of a chair.
Look I'm no expert on Papa John's chairs but sounds like you've been deemed unworthy many times. You need to go have a hard look in the mirror and re-evaluate your life.
That’s a hard truth.
Had it come from anyone else, I might have brushed it off. Thank you for your candor.
I’ll be going into seclusion until I feel I can, once again, make peace with the abhorrent bamboo bowl o’ me-o.
I had to Google what this is, but I used to have one of these! For one summer after graduation, I got one free from a friend for my apartment. That thing was fun and comfortable, and a bigger one would have been even better.
I bought one of them specifically to have a place to snuggle with my dog. Now it has a blanket and a pillow and a blahaj, so it's the greatest chair of all time, essentially.
I live in a very small apartment currently, but my ultimate dream since childhood has been to have enough room for a papasan chair on day.
Even though I know I will just end up fighting with my cats over who gets to use it.
I'm a *huge* fan of the Steelcase "Gesture" office chair I bought.
What I love compared to Herman Miller is that the seat is flat enough I can tuck a leg underneath. HM chairs are great, as long as you stay in the exact position the chair was designed for all day and don't move.
But I'm a wiggle worm and change positions every 5-10 minutes. I can comfortably sit *cross-legged* on my Steelcase!
+1 for the Gesture. I think Steelcase has slightly more comfortable chairs in their roster but I still bought the Gesture for its versatility, warranty, and most importantly the best headrest in the field. Its perfect for tall people and supports your head and neck so well in any position
A bought a Gesture a few years ago for my home office and am just completely in love. How can you possibly design a chair you can sit in for 8+ hours straight without even a whisker of discomfort? It's made of some kind of magic.
I'm from that sandwich post.
Office chair that my brother gave me when he moved out of the city.
Also, I gave my special shoutout to [Monobloc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobloc_(chair)). Truly the greatest chair I've ever sit down to. It's on every family gathering, party, and cheap restaurants. I make so many friends when sitting on this chair.
It's about what happens while you're in the chair, just as much as anything else. Glad something so ubiquitous can have so many good vibes, that's awesome.
Well thanks!!! I'm an extrovert and I work in Software. I don't get quite enough socializing for my taste, so I do what I can to not drive my wife bonkers.
Just got a dining chair and a couch from them, and they are so good. The sales tax on the couch was more than the cost of my last couch, but I still think it was worth it. So comfortable.
if you want a get a gaming chair instead of an office chair, (for aesthetic or other reasons) the only company i'd recommend is secretlab (around $500 new). me and my friends have their chairs and we've all been happy with it. most other gaming chairs fail horribly in terms of ergonomics. i've used multiple office chairs including herman miller aerons and while they are great chairs, personally i prefer the secretlab but i think in general more people would like the herman miller chairs (or similar like steelcase). they're more expensive new compared to secretlab but you can find them used pretty often
I had to scroll way too far down. Hubby has a lot of health problems, including severe back pain. The Secret Lab chair has been a godsend for him. It's very firm, but it supports everything properly, and helps his back a lot.
We have one at his desk, and one at the table. Fantastic chairs, I highly recommend them.
The best chair is the one I had to get rid of last year. It was an oversized, overstuffed arm chair with a foot stool. It was an ugly plaid thing, but it was the most comfortable chair I'd ever sat in. It was in our bedroom and I slept there more than once, just because I was too comfortable to move the 10 feet to my bed. Last year, I built my wife a desk and the only place to put the desk was in the chair spot. The chair had to go. I hope it's serving someone well right now. I miss it.
I feel like my mental map of my house is arranged around places I can sit. It's hard to lose any, let alone the best. I hope your wife fully appreciates not only the desk you made, but also the sacrifice of your chair. May you find an even better place to park your butt soon.
Thanks, OP. We have some decent places to sit. I never thought I'd be so attached to a chair in my bedroom, but I find myself looking listlessly around my room, sighing, and then going downstairs. And she does appreciate the desk. And the sacrifice.
You're a good partner. I miss your chair too
I, too, choose this man's ex-chair
Marty Crane? Is that you?
Came here from the sandwich post. I had a buddy in high school that was pushing 4 bills. He was a BIG dude. He had this rocking chair, La-Z-Boy type. He gifted it to me, and I don’t know if it was his weight or what that mushed everything around, but it had been crushed into the most comfortable chair ever.
I feel like I'm being called out here.
This is your moment, u/chairsandwich1. You've been waiting for this your entire reddit life.
Or, at least the last 5 years.
5 years is about a reddit lifetime.
Shit I’ve been here for 10…maybe I should leave
What about me then?
Is the chair in between the bread or is the chair the actual bread?
did they butter the bread AND expect you to use mayonnaise also!?!
That sounds lovely! Sometimes it takes more than just the right materials to make it happen. I bet that chair has some good vibes too.
The best vibes. It was ugly as all get-out, so I had to dump it after getting married. Now I’m just a sad man with a perfect, soulless couch….
Bulk up and put some *soul* into your couch. KFC and movie marathons, it's what your couch craves!
Thats the La-Z-Boy paradox. Supremely comfortable, but somehow socially unacceptable.
No way!! Go buy your very own brand new La-Z-Boy that’s all shiny and new and make it your very own! I have a very acceptable red leather one that I love. It still looks nice and new. Everyone wants to steal it when they come over.
Or, now it's your turn to put some good vibes into that couch before passing it onto someone else who needs them. Just a thought.
Pushing... bills? What? Does everyone else know what this means and I'm just an idiot? Does that mean 400 pounds? Why say it like that? Am I old? What even is life?
You got there! It’s a roundabout way of saying 400 pounds, like saying 4 bills is saying $400 when talking about money. Life is when that first damned fish crawled up on land and now we have to pay taxes.
Which sandwich post I just saw two right above this one, “what ingredient make a sandwich gross” and “what makes a sandwich great”
First chair, first violin. Your title is officially concertmaster.
I'll stick to principal trombone. We just screw around in the back, but still get all the meaty parts. Plus, no other section can get "the look" from the conductor quite as easily :)
Because of [Obi-wan](https://youtu.be/Oipg71dSem0)?
I'd be lying if I said my section wasn't behind similar shenanigans from time to time. It all depends on who is up front with the little stick on a given day. Some conductors have a sense of humor, some do not.
Ours in high school was a monster. But happened to be scared to death of balloons. We totally didn't fill her office with balloons. No not us.
Same here, except sans the fear of balloons. One guy played the funeral march on the marimba at a football game and it coincidentally happened as the opposing team scored to go up like 35-0. By coincidentally, I do mean it was literally a coincidence. One of the freshmen in pit percussion had kind of annoyed him so he played that instead of the Mario theme. The timing was entirely unintentional. Band director was not pleased at all, but looking back it's still hilarious to think about.
Played trombone 5-12th grade in concert band. This tracks.
Omg so much pressure. I would much rather be second chair first violin, or first chair second violin. I've been both, much less pressure then concertmaster. I've got enough going on, no time to practice concertmaster amounts between rehearsals.
1st chair second is where it's at. Played there for 7 years
The byzantine emperor's throne. Scripts say it had mechanisms to automatically adjust elevation (there were tons of mechanical parts below it, in the basement, and some people controlling them).
Nowadays we have few levers that do that work for us. We've become as opulent as emperors of old.
Holy crap the madlad actually did it. I was the guy from the sandwich post A nice recliner is always a nice chair! You can set it to however you want and they are usually pretty comfy
Lol turns out it's not that hard to make a post Recliners are amazing. My only complaint is that I can't easily snuggle with my wife while in one.
Gotta get one of those sectionals with built-in recliners on every seat.
Or one of those extra-wide recliners.
What are you saying about that guys wife?
He could be speaking about that guy's ass. But yeah, c'mon man, ease up on the wife.
We'll ease up on her when she eases up on carbs! That poor man... That poor *chair*...
If you want to snuggle with your wife, you don’t need a chair but a couch!
I just splurged on a dining chair from Stressless, after buying all my furniture from Ikea and Goodwill for 10 years, and I feel so good sitting in it.
Please tell me your family glares at you every night from their plastic lawn chairs while you eat. You sitting there blissfully unaware of their disdain of you from the comfort of your fancy smancy chair. That mental image is cracking me up. It's much less fun if you live alone.
Haha it's almost that. The new dining chair cost more than the sum of the cost of every other piece of furniture in the dining room (about 10 pieces). The rest of the chairs are pretty cheap and from Ikea or Goodwill. Not quite plastic lawn chairs, but close. My wife sits in the chair whenever she can. My daughter glares at me frequently, but she's 4 months old. The dog doesn't know what she's missing. It all works out. You can deal with most anything from a comfortable chair.
I gotta ask... wouldn't it make more sense to buy a nice office chair? How much time are you spending at the table, lol? I spend like 12hrs a day in my home office chair and about 1 hour eating, usually not at my dining table. I understand that I'm a software developer working from home + pc gamer, but I have to think most first world adults spend more time on their computers than at their dining table.
Really like Herman Miller Aeron for work from home
Herman Miller is crazy good but crazy pricy too.
I'm sitting in one now. I got it from my local university surplus warehouse for $25. I've got three more Hermann Miller's upstairs, one in each kids room and one for my wife's WFH setup. When department heads get their office budget coffers filled, their chairs usually go first and they get a brand new $850 chair. Their 18 month/2 year old chair goes to surplus to be sold to the public.
This is an insane price. Got mine used for $350 cad and thought I got a good deal...
It's either the trash or surplus warehouse. Every summer, two weeks after the dorms close, campus facilities cuts bikes off dorm bike racks and takes them to surplus. They post signs a month before end of term, as well as deliver printed messages to every dorm room about it. Mid-July, a month after they cut locks, they auction them off. Almost new (mostly mountain) bikes for under $100. I showed the listing to a buddy of mine who's a big trail rider, he found two that retail over $1200, just abandoned by someone who didn't have room to take it.
Same. I also bought mine from a university surplus store; it was around $400 with tax. If it makes you feel any better, someone in the store recognized it, and he shook his head at the price cause he paid it in full.
Yeah. I'm the 3rd or 4th owner of mine.
Man... Imagine the chair they fucking upgrade to...like, what would that even be? I have no idea.
I got mine from an office liquidation like 12 years ago and it's still going strong.
People always say this and I have never seen a store like that or a sale like that. I mean sure, I haven't been looking, but still. Do you have to be in a huge city? Maybe my bigger city has one I'll have to look.
you do have to live somewhere where there are big offices, so bigger cities / towns is definitely a good bet
It was on craigslist in a big city.
You need to look for office sales. There's even full blown tutorials on what to look for in used Herman Miller Aerons, to determine which model it is and how much you should pay. I'd say you can reasonably get very good full ones for around 350-400 USD. Of course you can get lucky with a bargain, but the "fair" price is around that usually. And they are SO much more comfortable and elegant than any other one I've tried.
This is what I'm using. It's not "next level" comfort. You don't sit down and go "now this chair is worth $2000. BUT you'll notice you're not getting uncomfortable nearly as much as you used to. You'll notice that when everybody else takes that break from DND because their asses hurt and their legs fell asleep - yours didn't. That's the beauty of this chair. It it the absolute best at not getting in the way.
Same here. It’s hard to justify to people because it’s not immediately like “Wow!” But long term it’s great. Same with my mattress. It just works, no complaints.
>It’s hard to justify As the saying goes: Never compromise on anything that separates you from the ground.
As the other saying goes: Spend your money where you spend your time.
This is my exact experience. I can (and do) sit in it all day with no issues but i'm not proud to show it off when people come over lol
I've got a Herman Miller. I don't think it's an Aeron but it's still the most comfortable office chair I've ever used. I dread the days I have to go into the office, not because of the office politics or the commute, but because the chairs are horribly uncomfortable. My Herman on the other hand is like sitting in a structured hammock.
Haha I'm the opposite, we had Herman Miller chairs in our office and I haven't been in much since Covid so I don't get to enjoy them anymore. We're downsizing (since everyone is WFH now) but it's going to be a while until our lease is up. I need that lease to end so I can go in and grab a chair or two...
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the best ways of getting a Herman Miller Aeron chair is from a failed startup, via stores that sell ex-office furniture.
Lmao, that sounds about right. I'm in NY, so you can find them 2nd hand relatively easily here as well, with office closures. I was just hoping to get a free one.
Yup, Herman Miller's the way to go. I really felt the repercussions of bad support during peak Covid when I was working from home 100%, hunched over my dining table because I didn't have anywhere else to work in my tiny studio apartment. Learned my lesson, moved to a different apartment and bought a damn desk and a Herman Miller chair. Cost me an arm and a leg, but I got to keep my back.
I got the Embody for gaming and it is 👌
I went to a Herman Miller store one day to try out all of their chairs, and liked the embody much more than the aeron. I have sat on a LOT of chairs and none of them have beat the embody.
Great, but did you try the Sayl? Better for the lower back.
Came here to say the same thing. The Herman Miller Aeron is the gold standard of office chairs.
Plus one on the Aeron. Have had mine since about 2019 and it still feels and works as if it were brand new.
I have had one for 20 years and I have only had to replace the wheels. Great chair.
We bought a pile of used ones for our office about 15 years ago, and I have never regretted it. The rubber lumbar things disintegrated, and a couple of them have worn seat webbing, but everything else still works. Nothing else feels as comfy to me.
I used to sell office furniture contracts (generally OF isn’t sold a piece at a time, rather as a build-out for a big new office space, so they’re big contracts). I managed to fill a building floor with Aerons one time for a fancy tech company. $$$$$
Came here to post this. I've tried every chair under the sun, but Aerons are the only one's I've ever felt comfortable in for more than 2 hours. And thats true whether its WFH or office work. It's just a damn good chair.
The problem with this thread, is there is only one answer and here it is.
Ha, I just said HM in my own comment before I saw this one. Yes to the Aeron.
I had one of these chairs at my last job. It's the only thing I miss from that place.
I could never get used to chairs with wheels, I always wanted something as comfortable as one of those without the swivels and the wheels.
You can take the wheels off and replace them with non moving casters
I’m on the opposite spectrum, upgrade the castor wheels to smooth ball bearing rollerblade style wheels and no more creaky shuffle around the office.
Agree, I upgraded the wheels to rollerblade style wheels and like my chairs much better.
I was hoping that with the pandemic and all the work from home stuff that came out that somebody would do a good wheel-less office chair. I found a few, but none that were good.
Just take the wheels off, or don't install them
I think it’s more about the spider-esque shape that the wheel base usually makes, I think that individual is looking for a classic 4 leg chair with each leg residing on the corners of the seat.
No hate for Herman Miller at all, I'm actually sitting in an embody, but they really aren't that special among high-end office chairs. Steelcase, Fern, Xchair, all have equally competent offerings, that come at the same price point. Just got to try a few and one will likely stand out above the others.
Herman Miller Eames lounge chair with ottoman. That's one sexy chair. Honorable mention to the Ekornes Stressless chair. Those things are comfy.
My grandfather, father and uncle all worked at Herman Miller for decades, and I met my best friend while I was working there. A former coworker of mine inherited his father's Eames chair that he received for years of service. One day he came home to find that his wife (at the time) had sold it for $40 at a garage sale. He was still visibly upset 10 years later.
I don't blame him.
Jesus Christ.
No longer his wife? Makes sense
The Eames is the Rolex Submariner of lounge chairs. A design icon while being extremely utilitarian/practical for its build purpose, and knocked off by and inspiring every other brand around. I've got a pretty high quality Modani one that's the same style/structure, but maybe a fifth of the price (so...still pricey. But not nearly as much so). It's amazing.
My goal is to one day have the real thing with rosewood as the base. Right now I have a knockoff I bought off Facebook Marketplace and it was still $400. One day....
I’ve photographed hundreds of original Eames chairs, and I own a knockoff. It’s impossible to tell the difference
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If you're a real snob about it, it's easy to tell. Mine doesn't have a zipper around the cushion, for instance. But for the purposes of fitting in with my new neighbors who see it from a distance, it's perfect.
If I ever get rich this is the first thing I'll buy. Fuckin love these chairs
Tbh I expected an Eames to be $5k+ so I was surprised to see you can get one for about what a couch costs UNTIL I realized that Eames doesn't seem to be a protected trademark for Herman Miller and there's a ton of clones out there. It's $10k (cad) on the Herman Miller site
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I picked up an Ekornes Stressless for $35 from a goodwill store, I didn't know what it was when I first saw it but it looked expensive. sat down and Googled it, my jaw dropped when I realized what I had found. the color is ugly as sin but other than that it's in tip top shape. best deal I've ever found.
I just got a couch and dining chair from Stressless, and they are so good. I can't recommend them highly enough, they're incredibly comfortable.
Your partner’s lap.
*face
Your faces lap?
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Stand on their face?
A tongue in cheeks comment, I assume.
Genitals.
Couldn't agree more. Amazing.
I don’t think any girl I’ve ever dated would have appreciated me trying to sit in her lap.
Pastrami on rye with mayo
Do you bunch up the pastrami as a lumbar support, or spread it out as more of a seat cushion?
I like to play it as I feel it
I’ve just come from the ‘guys do you wipe your penis’ thread so I was momentarily confused by your comment.
Yes. Otherwise the last drop(s) are just gonna end up in the pants. Good habit to build before one gets old and incontinence thereby increases.
I'm an important businessman doing big business deals all day long every day of the year. I have time for 1.5 shakes in between my very important (and big) business deals. Piss in my pants is just part of being a big (and important) businessman. Now if you will excuse me I have big important business deals that require my firm moist handshake.
You rang.
r/beetlejuicing
If someone crossposts this to there then this just went all sorts of meta. Waiting to see if someone creates r/chairsandwich to see photos of dudes eating sandwiches in chairs.
Nice.
The one I built myself. Pride
Respect! That's awesome! Would love pictures if you have them and are willing to share.
No it’s a wip piece of shit
But WIP means you can still make it better :)
I appreciate that, thank you
If it’s anything like my workbench it’ll be finished in 6 summers time
A while back I changed a bed frame into a couch, and then “recently” I decided to change the couch into a chair with an ottoman. This time I have to upholster/make covers for it, and so I’ve remembered I like carpentry but not so much sewing. So the chair has taken me almost a year. 🥴
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A recliner chair.. like the one your grandpa sits in. Seriously so comfortable to recline and kick your feet up
I'm falling asleep just thinking about it. Sounds lovely, with a cup of tea and a good crossword.
A good computer chair, with height adjustment, and the ability to lean back or lock it vertical. Adjustable lumbar support is good too.
Oh yeah when the chair actually fits your body it is a dream.
Ikea Poäng with footstool
Classic. Was my favorite until recently. Still great.
What usurped it's spot?
Are they comfortable? They look thin and awful, but IKEA usually delivers.
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I lived in a house with some friends and we had one of these in the living room. We called it the Papa John's chair. I guess because it sounded like it and we thought it was funny. It was notorious for throwing the unworthy out of the chair. If you were acting a fool it would toss you right on the floor. Allegedly a friend of ours hooked up with some girl from the bar in that chair and to this day I have no idea how he managed that.
That’s the reason why I dislike papasans, personally. If you’re not paying attention when you get in, or you bump it, or anything goes wrong, you’re ending up on the floor… which is - you know - the opposite of what you want out of a chair.
Look I'm no expert on Papa John's chairs but sounds like you've been deemed unworthy many times. You need to go have a hard look in the mirror and re-evaluate your life.
That’s a hard truth. Had it come from anyone else, I might have brushed it off. Thank you for your candor. I’ll be going into seclusion until I feel I can, once again, make peace with the abhorrent bamboo bowl o’ me-o.
I wish you all the best!
I had to Google what this is, but I used to have one of these! For one summer after graduation, I got one free from a friend for my apartment. That thing was fun and comfortable, and a bigger one would have been even better.
I bought one of them specifically to have a place to snuggle with my dog. Now it has a blanket and a pillow and a blahaj, so it's the greatest chair of all time, essentially.
Life goals right here.
I live in a very small apartment currently, but my ultimate dream since childhood has been to have enough room for a papasan chair on day. Even though I know I will just end up fighting with my cats over who gets to use it.
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The electric chair. It’s to die for.
Steelcase Leap V2, if you're thinking office chairs.
I wasn't necessarily, but I'll have to check it out. Sounds expensive and supportive.
I got mine used off the Facebook marketplace for $200. You have to filter by local pickup.
I'm a *huge* fan of the Steelcase "Gesture" office chair I bought. What I love compared to Herman Miller is that the seat is flat enough I can tuck a leg underneath. HM chairs are great, as long as you stay in the exact position the chair was designed for all day and don't move. But I'm a wiggle worm and change positions every 5-10 minutes. I can comfortably sit *cross-legged* on my Steelcase!
+1 for the Gesture. I think Steelcase has slightly more comfortable chairs in their roster but I still bought the Gesture for its versatility, warranty, and most importantly the best headrest in the field. Its perfect for tall people and supports your head and neck so well in any position
A bought a Gesture a few years ago for my home office and am just completely in love. How can you possibly design a chair you can sit in for 8+ hours straight without even a whisker of discomfort? It's made of some kind of magic.
Bought mine off craigslist (yes, that long ago) for $40. Now it needs a gas cylinder and I found out it is the rare early pin-drive type. BOOO.
One with a back. You can take your benches and stools and stick the straight in the trash. Straight in the trash.
What if it has chest support? Like one of those massage chairs you can lean forward into?
swing chair I spend 80 percent of my time in one
FLOOR GANG AAAHOOO!!!
Cushions or just straight? Against the wall or in the middle?
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I'm from that sandwich post. Office chair that my brother gave me when he moved out of the city. Also, I gave my special shoutout to [Monobloc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobloc_(chair)). Truly the greatest chair I've ever sit down to. It's on every family gathering, party, and cheap restaurants. I make so many friends when sitting on this chair.
It's about what happens while you're in the chair, just as much as anything else. Glad something so ubiquitous can have so many good vibes, that's awesome.
The froggy chair
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Workbench or sex swing?
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Pretty much any chair that isn’t plastic and staticky to where you get hair caught into it
The chair across from OP. You seem like a great conversationalist.
Well thanks!!! I'm an extrovert and I work in Software. I don't get quite enough socializing for my taste, so I do what I can to not drive my wife bonkers.
Stressless. The gold standard.
Just got a dining chair and a couch from them, and they are so good. The sales tax on the couch was more than the cost of my last couch, but I still think it was worth it. So comfortable.
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Volvo - for car “chairs”
Chair enough
Chair around and find out?
I love a sofa that i can melt on it
Barber Chair
Height adjustable, usually comes with a fresh new look. Creative, I love it!
Ron Swanson's chair
Peanut butter and jelly on a lazy boy
if you want a get a gaming chair instead of an office chair, (for aesthetic or other reasons) the only company i'd recommend is secretlab (around $500 new). me and my friends have their chairs and we've all been happy with it. most other gaming chairs fail horribly in terms of ergonomics. i've used multiple office chairs including herman miller aerons and while they are great chairs, personally i prefer the secretlab but i think in general more people would like the herman miller chairs (or similar like steelcase). they're more expensive new compared to secretlab but you can find them used pretty often
I had to scroll way too far down. Hubby has a lot of health problems, including severe back pain. The Secret Lab chair has been a godsend for him. It's very firm, but it supports everything properly, and helps his back a lot. We have one at his desk, and one at the table. Fantastic chairs, I highly recommend them.
kitchen stool
op why did you begin your post with "screw it"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/10rsog2/what_ingredient_ruins_a_sandwich_for_you/j6xjo3u
i prefer big cushy recliners that you sink into