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Despite its 125-year pedigree, the office task chair still presents designers with challenges. The key challenge today is how to realise a comfortable chair with a refreshing and engaging design, which also meets demanding upcoming international standards.
Contemporary task chairs can be either simple or complex, and in Kirn’s case we opted for beautiful simplicity. We had four reasons for doing so:
- To be environmentally smart.
- o be comfortable and easy to use.
- o innovate with a new mechanism.
- To allow an extended seat height range.
Product information
“Kirn’s mechanism allows the bulk to be removed from under the seat where’s its normally positioned and repositioned into the sides of the seat, which creates it’s lighter profile and because Kirn is an all mesh chair it’s lightness - can become much more expressive. Achieving a design centered on being - light touch. Light touch to use, light touch to manufacture, light touch environmentally and light touch to recycle.”
Kirn can be specified with an air-cell lumbar accessory that delivers 80mm of height and 20mm of depth adjustment. The fixed volume air cell uses air displacement to maintain optimum support, providing constant lumbar contact as the user moves in the chair.
The contouring of Kirn’s mesh seat and back offers flexible, three-dimensional support,which automatically adapts to users of all sizes as they move throughout their workday. The mesh offers refined temperature control and its soft touch fibres and high elasticity give it a refined and luxurious feel.
Kirn’s arms move with its back, just as ours do. Their rearward location option keeps them out the way of the work surface, and in a great position for easy adjustment. By doing away with buttons and triggers, we’ve made setting them up as simple as moving the armpads to where you want them to be.
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