Almost everyone knows the Aeron chair as a high-tech design classic. But few people know that its true origins lie in a 10-year effort to create furniture for the elderly. After the great dotcom bust ...

A look back at Herman Miller’s game-changing task chair, on the day its designer, Bill Stumpf, would’ve turned 80. Your average furniture designer would like you to believe his products will change ...

Chicago — More than 20 years after its introduction, Herman Miller Inc.'s iconic Aeron chair has gotten an upgrade. In October, the furniture giant introduced what it's calling a remastered version of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." When Herman Miller decided to look into furniture tailored to the elderly’s needs in the late 1970s, ...

The Aeron kicked off the modern ergonomic chair revolution in 1994, standing on the shoulders of the granddaddy of ergo chairs, Herman Miller's 1976 Ergon. And 30 years after its first release, it's ...

It may look like a large high-tech fly swatter on wheels, but for compensation specialist Terry Malone, no other office chair but the Aeron will do. “It was really the most unusual chair,” said Malone ...

We’ve all heard that old saying ‘if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.’ But that’s not what the maker of the bestselling office chair of all time said. Let’s go back to 1994, the year a global design ...

After the great dot-com bust of 2000, there was one lasting symbol of the crash: Herman Miller’s Aeron chair. The ergonomic mesh-backed office chair was launched in 1994, at the start of the bubble; ...