Humanscale

Our award-winning office solutions, including self-adjusting seating, sit/stand desks, monitor arms and task lighting, inspire movement and support the user in every posture. The Humanscale Design Studio, based in New York City, abides by the philosophy that good design achieves more with less. Function, simplicity, and longevity, and sustainability are at the core of all our designs. When thinking through the design and manufacturing of each product, we carefully consider the materials and resources used, in aim of creating an overall Net Positive impact.

Our ergonomic home and office chairs replace heavy, complex mechanisms with the sitter's own body weight and the laws of physics to encourage movement, providing the most comfortable chair available. At Humanscale, we believe that the highest level of functionality is achieved through simplicity. With our ergonomic home and office chairs, we replace heavy, complex mechanisms with the sitter's own body weight and the laws of physics to encourage movement, providing the most comfortable chair available.

Humanscale is the leading manufacturer of ergonomic office tools From task chairs to LED lighting, Humanscale products create a more comfortable place to work. Our award-winning designs are created with simplicity and performance in mind and are developed alongside ergonomic experts. Interested in finding out more about which of our work tools would work best for you and your workspace? Read our introduction to The Active Workspace.

Our approach to product development and manufacturing embodies our mission to minimize our impacts. We believe that the best designs in the world achieve more with less, so we act accordingly. Humanscale products prioritize simplicity, which is apparent in their forms. We use fewer parts and recyclable materials such as aluminum and steel in our products to limit their potential impact. In particular, our task chairs use a sophisticated weight-sensitive recline mechanism that offers intuitive functionality, thereby reducing the overall number of knobs, levers and parts required to make the chair work.

Our chairs redefine industry standards, so it's essential that our textiles do, too. Just as the chair's recline mechanism allows sitters to change from posture to posture without the use of locks or levers, the cushion must also facilitate freedom of movement. Nobody else makes what our chair designs need, so we've created them ourselves. We use two types of textiles: mesh and upholstery. To develop them, we partnered with some of the most respected textile designers in the world who worked closely with our product design team to create fabrics that perfectly complement the functionality.