Turnstone Cobi Chair by Steelcase

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Every part of Cobi was designed to flex and adjust to your body. Cobi's top flexing edge lets you comfortably rest your arm on top of the chair, while the flexing seat encourages you to move around and shift, allowing you to sit centered or off to the side. Cobi's flexing back contours to support any posture your body needs at any given moment.

Turnstone received the prestigious 2009 Red Dot Design Award for Cobi. The Red Dot Award, formally known as Design Innovations, is ranked among the largest design competitions.

The observations:
1. Collaboration takes time. Cobi would need to be an adaptable, flexible chair for long periods of sitting.


2. People don't adjust their chairs in collaborative settings. When you're listening to a presentation or putting heads together over a tough problem, adjusting your chair is the last thing on your mind. Luckily Cobi has taken care of that issue by being intuitive and responding automatically to all kinds of pressure and varieties of gravitational centers.


3. People change postures frequently while collaborating. Nervous energy, the flow of ideas, and the long hours make meetings prime-time for shifting and re-adjusting the position of your body. The Cobi chair is designed to handle that very thing.

The insights:
1. The Cobi chair should promote movement and be comfortable for long periods of time.


2. Adjustments to Cobi should be automatic and intuitive.


3. Cobi should support multiple postures.

The Cobi Chair from Turnstone by Steelcase is a rousing success on all three fronts.

The Cobi Chair encourages movement and supports and contours to a variety of postures. With only one adjustment (seat height), and a mechanism that's weight activated and senses and supports your own center of gravity, anyone can get comfortable quickly.

In addition to the features already listed, the Steelcase Cobi chair has a wide range of options:

• Armless chair available


• Four finish colors: black, near black, platinum and arctic white


• Optional sewn seat cushion to accommodate various fabric, leather and vinyl options.


• Seat is available with Steelcase and Designtex fabric, leather, or vinyl - as well as customer's own material, customer's own leather, or customer's own vinyl.


• Connect 3D material is standard on the chair back with matching Cogent: Connect seat, or with a seat upholstery of your choice.

Materials:
Powder-coated steel, glass-reinforced nylon, polypropylene and 100-percent polyester fabric

Dimensions:
Chair: 34.25"-39" h x 24.75" w x 23.25" d
Seat height from floor: 15.5" - 20.5"
Seat dimensions: 18.75" w x 19.5" d
Back height from seat: 19.5"
Arm height from seat: 9"
Width between arms: 18.875"
Seat to back angle: 97-104 degrees
Weight Capacity:
Weight tested up to 300 lbs. with no loss of performance