The Aeron Chair: It's the instantly recognizable mesh-backed, ergonomic office chair.
Nearly seven million Aerons have been sold to date by the Herman Miller Company of West Michigan.
But the chair that epitomizes today's office actually began life as something designed for a completely different consumer.
Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf designed the Aeron for Herman Miller.
Chadwick joined Stateside today. He says that the they believed that what had been done before and what was currently available would not satisfy their approach.
That's why they set out to take a totally different look at how an office chair looks, how it works, and how it responds to the environment it's to be used in.
"To be blunt, a lot of them were boring, because they were predictable," says Chadwick.
* Listen to the full interview with Don Chadwick above.
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