Aeron chairs are produced by Herman Miller and were popular with web startups during the late 1990s, when they were…
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The Aeron’s foam cushions were supported not by an upholstered wooden box, as was typical at the time, but by a span of plastic fabric stretched across a plastic frame. The foam could thus be thinner and more able to mold to the body. And because the foam’s backing was exposed to air, the design mitigated heat build-up.
The Aeron is a modern classic for a reason: Comfortable, cool and extremely well designed. Other office chairs in the same price segment merely follow in the footsteps of the master.
A 2006 article in New York magazine called the Aeron the Dot-Com Throne, writing that the chairs became shorthand for the countless companies that didn’t have a clue how to make money on the Internet, but, man, did they have the know-how to set up a cool office.
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