Everyday, we sit in the office staring at our computer screens moving nothing but our fingers. Our bodies get stiff and tired because sitting for prolong periods causes harm to our bodies. Luckily, we have a solution. Introducing the Embody by Herman Miller. Designed specifically for people who work for hours at computers, it is the first work chair that benefits both the mind and body.
Embody's function is part of its aesthetic. Inspired by the human spine, the back is alive with the backrest and Backfit™ adjustment. It adapts to the unique curvature and movement of your spine and lets your move freely and naturally.
It is also designed with Pixelated Support Technology™ which creates a more dynamic seat and back surface that automatically conforms to body movement and evenly distribute weight.
Embody's textiles is beyond a covering; it is like a layer of skin that covers the Embody's exoskeletal spine-like form. It provides a cushy feeling and allows light and air pass through keeping you cool. The palette features a selection of warm and cool neutrals as well as rich saturated colors to simplify choice and appeal to universal tastes.
With its new tilt technology, Embody's rotation points within the seat and back encourages the body to move naturally into the most positive seated postures. The back adopts to the shape and movement of your spine; it automatically adjusts to your shifting positions and supports you through the full range of working postures. Because movement promotes blood and oxygen flow, Embody keeps the brain more focused and functional. Embody will move you.
- Instinctive Back - Inspired by the human spine, the back is alive with the backrest and Backfit™ adjustment. It adapts to the unique curvature and movement of your spine and lets your move freely and naturally.
- Pixelated Support Technology™ - The Pixelated Support Technology™ creates dynamic seat and back surfaces that automatically conform to movement and evenly distribute weight.
- Cool, Airy Fabric Options - The textile is the “skin” to Embody’s exoskeletal spine-like form. It breathes and cushions the sitter. The palette features a selection of warm and cool neutrals as well as rich saturated colors.
- Translucent Casters - An aesthetically modern feature, which enables overall freedom from physical constraint and discomfort.
The Embody is absolutely unique in its alignment to the principles of Healthy Back's SLAM methodology--which helps you find the best chair suitable for you because not all people are meant for the same chair or recliner. The revolutionary design promotes motion and supports a full range of dynamic adjustment for almost every body shape and size.
Seat Height and Depth
We measure the depth of your seat. There should be two to three inches between the front edge of the chair and the back of your calf. Adequate seat depth distributes your weight evenly over the longest possible surface area. Inadequate surface area can impede circulation, cause numbness and result in difficultly when sitting for longer periods. Proper seat height encourages you to sit back in your chair, resulting in correct body position with result to the rest of your workstation.
Lumbar Height and Depth
We measure the lumbar curve in your back to determine the depth and height of your unique body. We then fit you to the right chair.
Stand flat against a wall with your heels and your should blades touching the wall. Now place your hand behind your lower back--does it fit? If you cannot fit your hand behind you, you have a flat back and probably need a chair with very little lumbar support. If you can fit a flat hand behind you, you have a medium curve and need a medium level lumbar support. If you can fit a balled up fist behind your back, , you have a deep curve, or sway back, and need a large lumbar support.
Angles
A chair should allow you to sit with at least 90° angles in the following places: your knees, hips, and elbows. Angles of less than 90° have the detrimental effect of impeding circulation. In static seated situations, this can result in premature fatigue and discomfort. In general, more "open" postures and chairs that support you in "open" postures, will allow you to sit more comfortably for longer periods of time.
Motion
Critical to pain-free sitting is a chair that allows you to stay in motion. The more you move, the more you encourage blood flow, and the less stiff you become. Properly adjust the chair's tension control to achieve your desired level of motion. Rule of thumb: Static positions in and of themselves are a source of pain and fatigue.
The Embody began in the design studio of Jeff Weber and the late Bill Stumpf. They saw an unsolved problem: the lack of physical harmony between us and our computers. They came up with a radical idea: What if a chair could do more than just minimize the negative effects of sitting? Could they design a chair that actually had positive effects on the body? “You can’t design without empathy,” said Weber, who also designed our Caper chair. “Since design has become more technology based, we’ve had to sit in our chairs in front of computers for longer periods, just like everyone else. We identify with the problems people have as a result of sitting.”
Bill Stumpf, who designed our Aeron, Equa, and Ergon work chairs and worked for Herman Miller for more than three decades, brought the idea to us. Could such a chair be designed and made? We worked with more than 30 professionals, who contributed their expertise. Physicians and PhDs in the fields of biomechanics, vision, physical therapy, and ergonomics helped test hypotheses, review prototypes, and conduct studies that helped guide the development of the first health-positive chair.
Expert input on these hypothesis fueled Weber and Stumpf's early thinking about the chair and formed the basis of experiments designed to establish whether such a chair was possible. But Bill passed away in 2006. Weber carried on. As Embody's designer, it was he who gave the chair its function and form, building on Bill Stumpf's inspiration. Prototypes followed, with experts sitting in them and offering appraisals of what was good and what wasn't. Researchers conducted laboratory experiments involving kinematics, preferred postures, pressure distribution, seated tasks, and metabolics. These guided the development of Embody and confirmed its health-positive benefits.
In the earliest discussions with the experts, we tested three hypotheses: Work chairs can be health-positive or therapeutic, not merely health-neutral.Dynamic surface pressure on a chair and back will provide more comfort, liveliness, and health-positive benefits than nondynamic surface pressure.Work chairs can let us achieve postural equilibrium (the upright balance point when our eyes are vertically aligned with our hips) naturally, no matter what our spinal curvature.
| Height |
39" to 43 1/2" |
| Width |
29 1/2" |
| Seat Width |
21 1/4" |
| Seat Height |
16" to 20 1/2" |
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