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the Mirra chair








Herman Miller's innovative Mirra work chair received a Gold
Award in the Best of NeoCon 2003 Competition.












The result of more than four years of research and development by Herman Miller
teamed with Studio 7.5, a German design firm.

http://www.seven5.com/

Composed of five designers--Claudia Plikat, Burkhard Schmitz, Nicolai Neubert,
Carola Zwick, and Roland Zwick--Studio 7.5 has been involved for over 10 years
in the design and development of products that improve the way people work.

They consider themselves 'the grandchildren of the Eameses' ( see my earlier post)
and, like those pioneering designers, they are experts at observing how workers
interact with their environments and finding ways to make that interaction more natural.

Rather than relying on any individual in the firm, Studio 7.5 works as a team, without
titles or hierarchy. The Mirra chair is a product of their collective imagination, talent,
and persistence--along with a willingness to break the mold in order to create a chair
that sets a new standard for comfort, fit, balanced ride, and visual refinement in
its price range.

Studio 7.5 envisioned a chair that reacts to what people do. Part of the concept was
to " make the chair like a second skin, like a shadow of the sitter". From this concept,
Mirra's passive adjustability was born. - Just sit on it, and it fits.

There are only a few adjustment controls, and they are designed to be very intuitive.
Mirra is a high-performing, environmentally advanced work chair that sets a new
reference point for ergonomic comfort, aesthetics, sustainability and price in the
mid-price office seating market.

Mirra utilizes an innovative combination of
both passive and active seating adjustments to
deliver natural performance and long-term comfort
for a wide range of body types and postures. Passive
adjustments automatically respond to each user's
body shape and movements to provide outstanding
support; active adjustments give users the ability to
fine-tune their sitting experience for even greater
comfort.


fyi- You can get them here. After much humming and hawing & wringing of hands, I got mine in the old port from Triede Design,... and guess what ? .. it's probably the best $800.00 I've ever spent- The chair sells for about about $1200.00 (+/-) - all dressed -tax in - retail. - and no I can't get you a deal. If your parents are complaining about their backs, and whose doesn't, ... tell them about it.