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Herman Miller Aeron Fully-Featured Work Chair, Size B
by Don Chadwick & Bill StumpfNeed more options? Fully customize your Aeron here. Combining distinctive looks with pioneering ergonomics, Aeron performs like no other chair. It adapts naturally and adjusts precisely to provide the best fit for the individual for comfort all day long. The imaginative design of the work chair offers superior comfort, ergonomic body support, and iconic style that are widely copied but never matched. The underlying theme throughout the development of the Aeron chair was that it should do more than accommodate small or large people; it should really fit them. - Fully-Assembled
- Adjustable Lumbar Support
- Your choice of breathable Pellicable seat fabric
- Pneumatic Standard Height Range
- Fully-Adjustable Arms
- Tilt Limiter and Seat Angle
- Also available in Size A and Size C (chart)
- 37.5-42" h x 27" w x 17" d (seat depth)
Download a PDF for more available colors of the Aeron Chair.
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| Designer | back to top |
 Bill Stumpf
Stumpf's association with Herman Miller began in 1970 when he joined the staff of the Herman Miller Research Corporation. After establishing his own firm in 1972, Stumpf created the Ergon chair, the first ergonomic work chair. Later, in collaboration with Don Chadwick, he produced the groundbreaking Equa and iconic Aeron chairs. He also was principal designer for the Ethospace system. "I enjoy myself, and I do it through design," Stumpf declared in an interview a few years ago. "I love beauty, and I love the availability of beautiful things and useful things immediately around me." During his lifetime Stumpf- a key figure in Herman Miller's transformation into a research-based, problem-solving innovator- received numerous awards for this work. Most recently, he was named the winner of the 2006 National Design Award in Product Design, an award presented posthumously by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Stumpf died in 2006.
 Don Chadwick
Chadwick's love for furniture design goes back to his childhood, when his cabinetmaker grandfather taught him how to use the tools of the trade--hand tools that required skill, precision, and patience. Later, unlike the other industrial design students at UCLA in the mid-1950s, he focused on furniture. And after hearing a Charles and Ray Eames lecture there, Chadwick was convinced: Furniture offered designers, even industrial designers, the chance to use materials in new, innovative ways--and to make a "real difference" in people's lives.
"Most industrial designers don't take furniture design seriously," he says. "They're not trained to get into that kind of detail. It's too personal, too much like surgery. And besides, you have to be in love with this kind of work." He attributes at least some of this optimism to the "LA recklessness" he's experienced as a lifelong resident of Southern California. "There's less fear of failure out here, so people are more apt to take risks. It's fertile ground for innovation." For over two decades now, Chadwick has had a partner in recklessness. "Herman Miller isn't afraid to take chances on new ideas. That's why the company's been successful for so long, and that's one reason why it's challenging to work for them."
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| Environmental Information | back to top |
Shifting Paradigms with Pop Bottles
Herman Miller's Aeron chair rewrote the book on office seating with its distinctive look and high-performance design. In addition to its well-known ergonomic and functional qualities, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick designed the Aeron chair to be sparing of natural resources, durable and repairable, and constructed for ease of disassembly and recycling.From its earliest developmental stages, the Aeron's raw material selection and sourcing process emphasized environmental friendliness, with a preference for renewable, sustainable, and recycled source materials, including recycled pop bottles. The Aeron chair is up to 94 percent recyclable at the end of its useful life.Aeron is comprised of 62-percent recycled materials. The recycled content breaks down to 41-percent post-consumer and 21-percent pre-consumer content. - All die-cast aluminum components are made from 100-percent recycled material and are 100 percent recyclable
- components contain approximately 25- percent recycled content and are 100 percent recyclable.
- Most metal components have a powder-coat paint finish that emits negligible volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
- Plastic components are identified with an ASTM recycling code whenever possible, to aid in returning these materials to the recycling stream.
- The seat frame and back contain over 60-percent recycled content, made from approximately 36 recycled two-liter plastic beverage bottles per chair.
- Foam and textile materials are part of an open-loop system and can be recycled into everything from automotive components to carpet padding at the end of their current life.
- Returnable/Recyclable Packaging - Packaging materials include corrugated cardboard and a polyethylene plastic bag. These materials are part of a closed- loop recycling system, meaning they can be recycled repeatedly.
Product Performance - Easy assembly for cost-efficiency and quick parts replacement.
- Easy disassembly for recyclability.
- Designed for durability, an important environmental criterion.
- Backed by Herman Miller's 12-year, 24/7 warranty.
Indoor Air Quality
 The Aeron chair is GREENGUARD certified as a low-emitting product that meets current indoor air quality standards. GREENGUARD-certified products also meet the emissions requirements of the State of Washington Furniture Systems criteria and the U.S. EPA Procurement Guidelines for Office Furniture. LEED
The Aeron chair may contribute to LEED credits due to its returnable/reusable packaging, durability, pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content, and GREENGUARD certification. Depending on project location, Aeron also may contribute to a LEED Regional Materials credit. Please contact us for detailed LEED credit sheets. It's important to note that no interior furnishings, individually or collectively, can guarantee a specific number of points for LEED certification.
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| Warranty | back to top |
| The Aeron Chair with Lumbar Support comes with a 12-year manufacturer's warranty.
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| About the Manufacturer | back to top |
 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.
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