Beloved British tv and film star Rowan Atkinson has a few ideas about seating. He’s quite economical.
He’s also into ergonomic seating (1:22).
Do as he says, not as he does.
If your task chair starts doing what happens above, I’d suggest installing a new gas cylinder. Unless you’re an international super-spy and man of mystery. Then you can probably get an intern to do it for you.
The venerable Chair Blog recently wrote up a great Etsy find, this superb little Chair Ring:
While I don’t think any other chair jewelry exists that is quite this cool, here’s some other chair jewelry finds from around the web. Have any favorites?
As you may or may not know, November is National Novel Writing Month. Some of us crazy enough to say goodbye to our sleep and our sanity for 30 days have gleefully taken up this popular annual challenge of trying to pound out a 50,000 word novel over the course of a mere month. That’s about how many words The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald runs (though it probably took him longer than a month to write).
Sitting in the right chair is crucial to anyone with writerly aspirations, as I’m sure F. Scott knew. (He must have – there he is, sitting in one!) Do you have a perfect novel-writing chair? Write in to areia at seatingzone dot com and tell us all about it! I’ve already asked one NaNoWriMo participant which SeatingZone chair she’d like to do her writing in, and she chose this classic and very affordable Basyx leather mid-back office chair with wood frame, proving that you don’t need a throne to start writing your masterpiece.
The Alphabet of Seating:
D is for…Dignified
Yessir, nothing like going from the mail room to the board room in a few easy steps. Maybe you have a new idea for a product – you know, for kids! Well, a guy’s gotta keep his dignity intact, so why not do so from one of our beautiful executive chairs?
This beauty’s the Marlan Seating Traditional Leather Executive Swivel. Good enough for any fat cat executive, and certainly good enough for you and your idealistic, upbeat attitude! You’ll be making circles into hula hoops in no time.
(Inspired by the Coen Brothers’ 1994 film The Hudsucker Proxy)
If you google the above phrase, you get a surprising amount of hits: everything from sites on ergonomics to Zazen meditation techniques.
But Matt at the Japanese culture blog No-Sword provides an excerpt from a 1930s Japanese etiquette guide designed for young girls. His commentary is in the spirit of the thing:
You think you know how to sit in a chair? You don’t know how to sit in a chair. Your movements are sloppy and your posture is highly questionable. You are a poor sitter. But you can always improve yourself.
(click on the image above for the full lesson)
You could try this exercise out – perhaps with an entire classroom full of obedient girls – on one of our Virco classroom chairs. Practice makes perfect, so keep trying! Ganbatte! (Do your best!)
The Alphabet of Seating:
C is for…Creepy
I’ve recently discovered Homeqn, or Home Quotient, which is a pretty sweet blog cataloguing excellent and unusual home decor. For starters, they’ve opened me up to the wild world of blood-themed home decor. Oh sure, I’ve seen the blood-spattered shower curtain before (because let’s face it, who doesn’t want to reenact the famous scene from Psycho every now and then?), but how about this ball chair that got a little too close to a meat grinder?
Kind of takes the idea of a womb-like environment to a new level, don’t you think? If Djreko’s take on the chair is too bloody for you, SeatingZone offers a cleaner variation: the ever-groovy ModZ Mib Chair.
Ah, there we are, all nice and clean – much better.
B is for…Beach Chair
Betty, can you take my calls? A seagull just stole my brown bag, so I’ll be at the clam shack down the boardwalk.
By the way, wouldn’t mesh be a bit more breathable at the beach? Give SeatingZone a ring and let them know what we’ll need. I think there’s sand in my coffee…
P.S. B is also for Blog, so if there any topics you’d like to see covered in this alphabet, be sure to let us know in comments!
Having a rough day? With this boxing glove chair, you can let the world know that you’ll be taking anything and everything as “fighting words”. 
It actually looks oddly comfortable… all those bubbly padded gloves could really do wonders for your pressure points. And for the bosses and CEOs out there, it could be a useful way to send a message without saying a word.
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Okay, this is too weird not to share. I suppose it’s like those kids you knew in college who decorated their dorm room walls with stolen street signs, or snagged a few traffic cones to strew artfully around the frat house… only taken to a whole new extreme.
If it’s beyond your resourcefulness to actually steal a couple of Walk/Don’t Walk signals to fashion into your own chair, you can buy a premade (and presumably legal?) version from artisan John Carter for $3,700 plus shipping. A perfect gift for the anarchist punk who has (stolen) everything!
Okay, is it just me, or is there something slightly suggestive about the shape of the UP 5 and UP 6 armchair and ottoman by gaetano pesce? Well, either way, it does look quite welcoming.
Via Chair Blog
