Getting Started: An Overview of the Aeron Chair

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The Aeron Chair has 3 sizes and a Pellicle® material that conforms to the user's body and retains its original shape when unoccupied. The material is lightweight and breathable and distributes the user's weight evenly over the seat and back of the chair. The chair has pneumatic height adjustment and a Kinemat® tilt that lets the body naturally pivot at the ankles, knees, and hips.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 1: Tilt

The options for the tilt mechanism of the Aeron include: Standard Tilt; Tilt Angle and Seat Limiter. The tilt limiter that allows you to set the tilt range to limit the amount of recline, a tilt angle and seat limiter that allows you to limit the recline and select a horizontal or 5° forward seat angle, or a standard tilt.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 2: Arms

Arm choices for the Aeron include a fixed, nonadjustable option; a height-adjustable option that moves the arms 4" vertically; and a fully adjustable option that moves the arms 4" vertically and pivots the arm pads 15° outward and 17 1/2° inward.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 3: Arm Upholstery

Standard non-upholstered arm pads are molded, textured, flexible vinyl. The Aeron chair's arm pads are also available with supple leather upholstery.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 4: Size

This reference will help you select A-, B-, or C-sizes. Height and weight are key indicators of suitable chair-size choice. To determine which chair size is best, find the point of intersection for your height and weight. Since the B-size chair is designed to fit a broad range of people, you should choose "B" if you fall in the A/B or B/C category.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 5: Back Support

The Back-Support options for the Aeron include PostureFit® support, an adjustable lumbar support, and standard support. The PostureFit support provides a custom fit in the lower back area, below the beltline, that helps achieve healthier posture and improved lower back comfort. You can adjust the level of support with a lever. PostureFit®, the innovative, patented, adjustable lower-back support system that sustains a healthful posture and enhances comfort throughout the day. It does so by filling the void between the base of the backrest and your lower back to keep your spine properly aligned.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 6: Base and Frame Finish

The Aeron's Base and Frame Finishes blend both classic and contemporary influences for a unique appearance that fits in wherever it's used. A variety of base-and-frame finishes complements the Pellicle material. The most common finish option is the graphite base. Your choice of Base and Frame Finish will affect which Pellicle Fabrics that are available. For example, if you choose Titanium with Smoke Frame, your Pellicle options will be Glacier, Zinc, Quartz, and Mineralite. If you choose a Graphite Base for your Aeron, your Pellicle options will be Carbon, Lead, Nickel, Hematite, Steel, Platinum, Pyrite, etc.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 7: Casters

Depending on where you will use your Aeron, the Smart Designer provides three options for Casters and Glides: 2 1/2" Casters for Carpet, Casters with polyurethane tread for hard floors, and black nylon glides for hard floors.

Smart Designer Aeron Chair Step 8: Fabric

Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of the Aeron Chair is its Pellicle material. Depending upon the Base and Frame options selected, you can choose from a large assortment of Pellicle materials. This option really provides you with an opportunity to express your unique style.

The Pellicle was a deliberate design strategy in that its transparency symbolizes the free flow of air to the skin in the same way window screens, and other permeable membranes permit the flow of air or light or moisture. The transparency of the Aeron as a visual element was in keeping with the idea of transparent architecture and technology, which Aeron pioneered. Transparency is a major design movement. Its purpose is to make technology less opaque, to communicate the inner workings of things, and to make objects less intrusive in the environment. Aeron is a non-intrusive chair.