So you’ve got the new promotion, the corner office—even your own secretary. You get in your first day on the new job, shut the door, slouch into your gorgeous leather chair, and notice that it feels like it’s been stuffed with cinder blocks.
You hunt around and the only other chair is that old pink tweed and plastic one that everyone else has. But man, is it comfortable. So you’ve got your new office with a fichus plant, a fish tank, and an ugly tweed chair that even the 70’s kicked out. Don’t feel very powerful anymore?
You don’t have to be torn between the two extremes: you can combine the hip and the comfy without having to dig in the broom closet, letting you relax and make those big decisions in stride. Here are a few models you can lay into:
Office Star Traditional Executive Vinyl Chair
The chair you sit in everyday becomes a part of you—in a way, it explains you as a professional. Be the boss with an Office Star Traditional Executive Vinyl Chair. For $264, it’s the idyllic CEO image, a real white-collar throne, with lumbar support, exquisite padding, and even studded with a little bling to let them know that you run the show.
The steel base is covered with mahogany-finished wood and the effortless pneumatic seat height adjuster makes for precision tailoring.
Complete with a thick-padded head backing and armrests perfect for lying back in reflection—or procrastination—and its oversized dual-wheel carpet casters are specially designed for rolling anywhere in the office you want to go to show off your chair.
Nichol Leather and Mesh Fabric Executive Chair
For a sleeker, more modern look and a more refined sense of comfort, the $190 Nichol Leather and Mesh Fabric Executive Chair has buffalo leather and mesh fabric upholstery that pairs well with your latte and will have you ready to take on whatever the day may bring in total style and comfort.
Its headrest molds to your posture and the tilt tension is variable and lockable, making this a great chair for a computer workstation. The armrests also move between seven and ten inches from the seat for fine-tuned comfort.
The chrome metal leg base is a great compliment to an office with a post-modern flair, and the ergonomic design with full-floating lumbar support makes this a great chair to usher in the electronic age from. Not to mention that the Executive Chair’s buffalo leather is just handsome and the 25x21-inch seat dimensions seductively inviting.
Boss Galaxy Matrex Mesh Executive Chair
To up the ante in both modernity and comfort, go galactic with the Boss Galaxy Matrex Mesh Executive Chair. This padded to the max, the Galaxy Matrex Executive is truly out of this world, and sitting in it feels like floating on a cloud.
The 28-inch back will improve your posture and your mood, while the 19.5-inch depth will give you space to work with total clarity.
Designed with a flare of style, the Galaxy Matrex Executive Chair boasts a breathable black and grey mesh seat, while sporting a polyurethane pad lumbar support and 3-position tilt angle lock and tension adjustment—almost like treating yourself to a spa day.
The perfect computer chair, the Galaxy Matrex Executive Chair also comes equipped with a 27-inch base and dual wheel casters well suited to navigating an L-shaped corner workstation.
At only $161, the Galaxy Matrex is not only amazingly comfortable, but also good business.
Topstar Sitness 20 Balance Point Stool
So contemporary it’s almost Swiss, the Topstar Sitness 20 Balance Point Stool is a fun and off-the-beaten-path way to deck out your office. Its ergonomic design promotes good posture and corrects spinal alignment, has an adjustable tire base that absorbs shock and won’t scuff your floors, and it has a 360-degree range of motion, making it rather like having a yoga ball in the office.
The air cushion seat has a built-in pressure regulator and will adapt to your body weight and is height and tension variable. $140, the Topstar Sitness 20 Balance Point Stool also comes with a tire pump to change the pressure from the bottom end. Add a splash of color and diversion to your workspace. Comes in black, blue, or red.
Boss Loop Arm Drafting Stool
For those of who work a few inches above the rest of, literally, a good chair is hard to find. Our architects, our engineer—they are supposed the design the grander, more decadent things in life, but no one has designed them a chair in which to dream and draw comfortably.
There are few chairs out there for sitting comfortably at a drafting table, but of them, the Boss Loop Arm Drafting Stool is top of the line.
Its contoured back is designed to alleviate back strain, and it comes in black and black-and-white herringbone for an office with more traditional tones, and burgundy or blue if you want to splash a little color to brighten up a day of tedious measuring and drawing. $85.
Matt Dimler is a freelance writer who writes about
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