On: Office Chairs | JonBlack.gg

Allow me to wax poetic for a minute;

If you work in an office, and your chair offers excessive or near infinite decline (leaning back), I feel for you because the amount of energy I am using just trying to keep upright in this chair right now is making me tired.
If you are an office outfitter and have a choice in the matter then I implore you, please, please don’t make the mistake of buying chairs with infinite recline.

No word of a lie if I leaned back in this chair, I could get into a sleeping position (were it not for me being more top heavy and tipping over entirely).

That said, it’s in my opinion that the penultimate office chair is not a $600+ Herman Miller, nor is it a Secret Labs branded Elite or Omega; The perfect office chair is offered by IKEA for a price that works out to twenty five australian dollars per year over a period of ten years as stated in their guarantee, not warranty, guarantee.

That chair is the IKEA Markus. (link)

Not to be triffled with, the Markus is built for people of all shapes and sizes; as someone with a 6'4" male frame the back of the chair lines up perfectly with my neck and the cushion bottom + mesh backing is simply sublime. Maybe the only point of failure in the Markus is that the arm rests will wear and lose grip, the arm rests will also eventually lose tightness in the bolts used to secure them to the main frame but that’s no issue in the long run as the guarantee allows for unlimited replacements, where old chairs are sold at a discount in their as-is section or thoroughly recycled.

Simply put, if given the choice the Markus is the last chair I would ever sit in as it’s that damn good.

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