The 3-Minute Custom Herman Miller Mirra Chair designed by Studio 7.5
The Mirra Chair is a study in elegance, adaptation, and comfort. Designed by Herman Miller in conjuction with German design team Studio 7.5 in 2003, Mirra was conceived as a paradox: a chair that was more supportive but used less material, that was high-value but low cost, that had fewer manual adjustments but a better, more intuitive fit for the user. On all fronts, Mirra is a smashing success.
The marriage of excellent, high-tech engineering with a refined and elegant aesthetic design sensibility is realized in the Mirra chair, and for that the furniture world has taken note. Winner of multiple awards and reams of critical praise, the Mirra is one of the most popular and critically adored chair for the last decade, and a real boon to any office, worker, or user.
Mirra is first and foremost a beautiful chair. Fine-tuned, built and designed by the teams at Herman Miller and Studio 7.5, it embodies the practical but fashion-forward aesthetic that company and studio are known for. The seat creates a comfort pocket at the rear and falls off at the front in a "waterfall" contour. This makes it not only more comfortable, but also actually healthier. The contouring of the chair increases your circulation, which of course increases bloodflow to your brain. That makes your thoughts clearer, your mind clearer, and your senses more alert.
That in turn leads to increased productivity and improved mood. Not bad for the seat of your chair. The arms arc up from the base of the chair, and the armrests at the top are contoured to fit and support the forearm. The back of the chair is contoured as well, and like the seat has been designed to allow the maximum amount of air possible to pass through the Mirra. That makes you cooler, more comfortable, better able to focus. It's not for nothing the Mirra chair won the GOODDESIGN award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture!
Constructed of elastic, pliable materials, the Mirra chair is also the most adaptable chair out there. It fits any size like a glove, intuitively molding itself to support and comfort your contours, weight distribution, and height. Mirra comes equipped with the patented PostureFit back support system made famous by the Aeron chair, as well as AirWeave seating and the TriFlex back support system. Mirra should easily fit any user without having to be manually adjusted, but of course, Herman Miller has made sure his chair is as adaptable as possible.
Users can adjust the seat height, seat depth, tilt tension, tilt limiter, forward tilt, arm height, arm width, arm angle, and lumbar support. There aren't any chairs out there that will fit you better than the Mirra. In addition, there are few chairs out there that you can more easily make your own. At Smart Furniture, when you use the Smart Designer feature to buy and customize your chair, the possibilities for personalization are enormous. There are over 250,000 variations of the Mirra Chair available from Smart Furniture. It fits you like a glove when it comes to engineering and literal fit, but will also easily conform to your personal taste.
Elegant, adaptive, comfortable. The alchemists at Herman Miller and Studio 7.5 has mixed those striking features and more to make one of the best chairs yet produced. Mirra represents the axis of good design and good science, ergonomics and aesthetics coming together in one fine chair. Buy Mirra today.
With this chair, gone are the days of heat and moisture build up in the seat of your chair, and gone is the discomfort of same. The designers and engineers who worked on the Mirra chair made sure they had a workable solution for every ergonomic, technological, and seating problem that the modern office and the modern office chair provide. Another seeming paradox is the fit versus the adjustments. While Mirra can be manually adjusted to fit any unique user, the design enables the chair to automatically conform for the needs of the user.
Weight shifting and balance, tilt and flexing of the seat back are all intuitive on Mirra's part; they immediately absorb, support and reflect the shape and particular needs of the user. This unique effect of intuitive (as well as manual) adjustment and compensation is mirrored when it comes to the look of the chair; the options for personalization are enormous, and all are available using the Smart Furniture Smart Designer tool.
But the design of the Mirra chair was not limited to aesthetics or material. Mirra also comes equipped with several ergonomic breakthroughs and innovations, technical achievements that define the chair in equal measure. The dedicated team of designers, artists, and engineers who contributed their ideas, time, and intellect to this chair have invested it with more than just the passing marks of a good office chair; they have imbued it with a number of soon-to-be-classic design functions and tools that have made the office chair a much better, more comfortable place to sit. With all the innovation and high-performance features that have gone into Mirra, it's almost like having a partner at your desk with you at work.
With all that design expertise on display, all the beauty and functionality you've grown to expect from Herman Miller, you might think Mirra was done innovating. Not so. Mirra is one of finest green chairs available on the market, a fully recyclable and super-low emission, low-impact product. The designers at Herman Miller and Studio 7.5 wanted it that way, because both entities are committed to a sustainable, green, and responsible plan for manufacturing and retailing their products. The result has exceeded all expectations. Get great design. Buy Mirra today.
TriFlex Backrest This is a new innovation designed to support the back in a multitude of ways; lumbar, lower spine, shoulders. These are all crucially important areas when it comes to long hours at a desk or computer. Without proper support in all of them, the quality of your seating experience goes down, which in turn effects your work, mood, and health. The TriFlex system in the Mirra chair is designed to make sure that doesn't happen, and to make sure you can sustain the quality of your health and work experience for long periods of sitting. Working in conjunction with the flexible, breathable material forming the back of the chair, the TriFlex keeps you as comfortable, and your back and spine as healthy, as possible. And, true to form, all of this happens intuitively with the Mirra chair - no adjustments necessary. The lack of reliance on personal adjustments (which can, of course, still be made) is something that really sets the Mirra apart; it allows for professional, medical, technical adjustment, rather than just personal.
Passive PostureFit Herman Miller designed the PostureFit system for the Aeron chair, their breakthrough product in ergonomic design. But for the Mirra chair they did Aeron one better, developing the Passive PostureFit. The new version is designed to support your lower spine, the part of your back below the belt, and to do it without forcing you into an uncomfortable or unsustainable position. Research has shown that most office workers sit forward in their seat when the work, slouching. Mirra's Passive PostureFit doesn't correct this posture as much as it makes it easy and healthy to maintain. Camber contour at the base of the back makes it comfortable and natural to assume your normal position at work, and at the same time relieves all the stress and unhealthy alignments and tensions from your back. So the Mirra has accomplished the dream of every teenager; healthy, comfortable, posture-maintaining slouching. The engineering behind this design feature is deeply impressive, as well as truly creative; not to eliminate bad posture by making it uncomfortable and therefore untenable, as many office chairs do, but cradle and support bad posture (which, as research shows, is actually normal posture) and convert in into comfortable, non-damaging seating. Neat trick.
Harmonic Tilt Harmonic tilt uses advanced seat and spring technology to create the most comfortable and easy tilting and reclining possible. This is an under-researched and under-estimated aspect of office seating. Users of office chairs spend large portions of their time leaning, swiveling, and reclining, in several different positions and at many different stress levels. The ultimate office chair would address this little-discussed aspect of seating, and therefore improve vastly the enjoyment and comfort of the office chair. The designers and engineers behind the Mirra chair resolved to do this, and they did it in an unconventional, innovative way (no surprises there!). Mirra is designed to provide the same tension and pull when it comes to leaning in the seat no matter what type or size of user is in the seat. The ensures that the user is always in complete control of the seat. In a word, it creates harmony between the user, their desire to recline or lean, and the chair. So, rather than attempt to make the chair super-fluid or have myriad adjustments to the recline function, Mirra just made it simple, easy, and comfortable for everyone. Harmonic tilt is the unexpected answer to a little-asked question in the world of office chair design, and it improves the function and ergonomic rating of the Mirra chair immeasurably.
AirWeave Suspension The seat on the Mirra chair is designed with comfort, breathability and coolness in mind. AirWeave allows air to flow through the Mirra chair, reaching the user and keeping them cool, collected, productive. The seat also has a fixed depth, at 17", which means there's never a gap between the seat and the back of the chair, keeping you comfortable and supported. It's natural, because it's yet another paradox, for the last major design feature of the Mirra to somewhat contradict the high-tech, engineering-focused features that came before. One of the best innovations used in the chair is one of the simplest, and most obvious; just make the seat breathable! Mirra is an elegant chair with a lovely aesthetic that both serve as packaging around a highly technical and complex series of engineering achievements.
The Mirra chair by Herman Miller, designed by Studio 7.5, is elegant, simple, and endlessly adaptive. It the bearer of multiple design features that have enabled it to become justly famous for it's technological advancement, ergonomic innovation, and simple aesthetic beauty. The Mirra chair has won fans and critical praise from the moment it was introduced to the public, and is one of the most popular high-level office chairs in the country.
It is endlessly adaptable and adjustable, it was built to fit every individual user like a glove, and it comes through on the boast that it can improve your mood, health, and productivity while at work. Winner of several awards for design excellence, including the 2003 GOODDESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture, the Best of NeoCon Gold Award, Silver at the Industrial Design Society of America's Industrial Design Excellence Awards, and the FIRA Ergonomic Excellence Award, it blew away the ergonomic and aesthetic community upon release. When you buy the Mirra Chair from Smart Furniture, you're not just buying a chair that will adjust to fit you just right, you're taking a large part in it's customization and personalization. That's because there are over 250,000 variations of the Mirra Chair through our custom design tool. Your Mirra chair will come to you exactly the way you want it, and the advanced engineering technology extant in the chair will assure you're total comfort, support, and health.
The chief design characteristic for the Mirra chair was paradox, and the interplay between comfort, aesthetics, and ergonomic research. The paradoxes start with the backing of the chair, which is both incredibly supportive and flexible, as well as being literally full of holes. 657 holes to be exact, all of which add to the fashion-forward aesthetic of the Mirra chair while also creating three "flex zones," areas of the backing that flex to fit and accomodate your back as it tilts, twists, sits or bends. The positive effect of this innovative system can't be overstated. The backing of the chair contributes to continued spine health, better posture, and a good deal more comfort and support at work. That, of course, means better mood and productivity. The seat of the chair echoes the same design philosophy: the material there is breathable and light, allowing air flow and keeping you cool and comfortable.
Mirra Video Review A video demonstration of the Mirra Chair's attributes and different features
Mirra Chair Product Review An independent assessment of the Mirra Chair- criteria includes ergonomics, performance, style, and environmental sustainability
When considering what to look for in an office chair, a lot of things come to mind. For many customers, comfort is the number one priority. For others, good ergonomic back support is the most important thing. And, for still others, the price tag is the preeminent measure of which chair to buy. One aspect of office chair buying that is sometimes overlooked, however, is who actually makes the product. While the Mirra Chair was commissioned, produced and marketed by Herman Miller, it is Studio 7.5 who actually designed and built the chair for commercial sale and reproduction. And there are few furniture makers on earth more worthy of your trust and admiration than Studio 7.5.
Studio 7.5 is a German company dedicated to freedom of movement and design. They made the Mirra Chair in that same spirit; as a product marked by many fingerprints, suited for many purposes, many offices, and many rooms. Adaptability and well-tuned adjustment capability is one of the main qualities the finished Mirra Chair possesses, aside from exquisite comfort and unflinching support. Studio 7.5 isn't like most firms, and the chair they produced isn't like most chairs. The Herman Miller Mirra Chair is a new thing in the world, an office chair with the distinctive looks of the Aeron, the comfort of the Embody, and the adjustment capability of an Amia. It's not a Frankenstein by any means, however; it has the beauty of Generation Chair to boot. You can read more about the Mirra Chair's design story. The process that led to the creation of the chair was profound and profoundly interesting. At Studio 7.5, things are run very differently from a typical America business. They were committed not only to the idea of the chair, of the product, but also to the idea of their unique company. So committed, in fact, that they have no bosses, no owners, no employees. They're a collective of innovative designers who's original business plan was to buy a 7.5 ton truck and move their studio from place to place: thus the name.
Of course, the truck thing never really came to pass; they were too successful, too in demand, and too in need of freedom and space to work their magic on industrial design items. The Mirra Chair, while one of their finest pieces of work, is far from their only work. They have a long track record of success in creating beautiful, useful, innovative products for an international market. They are a company to be trusted when it comes to utility, aesthetic quality, and innovation. The Mirra Chair, and Studio 7.5, are entities both Herman Miller and Smart Furniture can stand behind with pride and complete trust.
So who is Studio 7.5? If there are no bosses and no owners, who makes the products? Who designs them and runs the business.
Burkhard Schmitz, Claudia Plikat, and Carola Zwick were the original members of the team, later joined by Roland Zwick. All of them had backgrounds in industrial design, and long resumes full of success, beauty, and excellent functionality. When asked about the Mirra Chair, one of their latest and greatest productions, they brighten, and can speak in depth and with intense detail about the chair. About the Mirra chair: "We define not only how the chair looks but how it performs," says Carola. "We're very involved with its physical behavior, because beauty is not only what you see, it's also what you feel." This is the philosophy that led to the paradox designs of less material and more support, less adjustments and a better fit, and high value at low cost. It also led to one of the most innovative chairs this decade, and in more ways than one. Studio 7.5 blended scientific research, ergonomic study and fashion-forward aesthetics to forge a signature chair: the Mirra.
So. Of course, when you're making a purchase on a new office chair, comfort, support, ergonomics, beauty and pedigree should be at the forefront of your mind. But don't forget to consider the actual makers of the product. The companies, sensibilities, and physical hands that built the chair. In the case of the Herman Miller Mirra Chair, built by German Studio 7.5, thinking about the designers can only improve your opinion of the chair you're looking at. Because in their capable and creative hands, Herman Miller was able to produce yet another wondrous, innovative, and even revolutionary office chair for the day to day life of working folks. With Studio 7.5, you know what you're buying; quality, hard work, beauty, and plenty of good old fashioned comfort, support, and functionality.
About the Manufacturer
Herman Miller is an industry leader in the integration of cutting edge technology to furniture and other household items to make everyday life more comfortable, convenient, and stylish. Herman Miller stands out at the forefront of such fields as ergonomic technologies, environmentally friendly manufacturing processes, and customizable furniture items.
In addition to producing some of the most outstanding office furniture in the world, Herman Miller has also taken on the responsibility of manufacturing some of the most celebrated furniture designs by some of the world's most famous designs. These "modern classics" include works by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi. Herman Miller celebrates these famous mid-century designers' works through its extraordinarily precise manufacturing techniques and industry-leading green production processes.
Herman Miller is a global company with operations, sales offices, dealers, and licensees in more than 40 countries in North America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, serving customers virtually anywhere in the world. Herman Miller is headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, while manufacturing facilities are located in the U.S., China, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
Materials: The Mirra chair's components are constructed from steel, plastic, aluminum, foam and textile.
Dimensions: Overall Width: 27" Seat Depth: 17" d Low-Height Range: 37.25" - 41.75" h Seat height: 15" - 19.5" h Standard-Height Range: 38.25" - 42.75" h Seat height: 16" - 20.5" Extended-Height Range: 38.25" - 43.75" h Seat height: 16" - 21.5" h
Standard-Height Range
The Standard Height Range is the default selection when you customize your Mirra Chair with the Smart Designer. For low or extended height options, please call a Smart Furniture salesperson at 888-467-6278. They're very helpful and polite.
The Mirra chair comes with a 12 year warranty from Herman Miller, one of the most trusted names in the country when it comes to furniture. That's an exceptional guarantee on a chair that only costs $599. In fact, when that amount is spread over the 12 year guaranteed life of the chair, it comes out to just 14 cents a day! How much would you pay to be comfortable, more productive, and less stressed at work every day? Get value, and a great warranty: buy Mirra today.
When considering what to look for in an office chair, a lot of things come to mind. For many customers, comfort is the number one priority. For others, good ergonomic back support is the most important thing. And, for still others, the price tag is the preeminent measure of which chair to buy. One aspect of office chair buying that is sometimes overlooked, however, is who actually makes the product. While the Mirra Chair was commissioned, produced and marketed by Herman Miller, it is Studio 7.5 who actually designed and built the chair for commercial sale and reproduction. And there are few furniture makers on earth more worthy of your trust and admiration than Studio 7.5.
