The Quest for the Perfect Office Chair

Although many aesthetically influential office chairs emerged at the beginning of the 20^th century, it was a bad time for body-conscious design. Frank Lloyd Wright, for example, crafted a number of impressive chairs, but like other chair-designing architects, he was less interested in matching the chair to the human body than to the surrounding d?cor. In a couple of instances, he did acknowledge human movement. The Larkin Office Building, which he designed in 1904, featured three-legged office chairs for typists. When the typist leaned forward, the chair tilted with her. When complaints emerged about what became known as ?the suicide chair??because of its frightening instability?Wright defended his design, claiming that it forced good posture. (According to Edward Tenner?s book, Our Own Devices, Wright attempted to install the same three-legged chair in the Johnson Wax building in 1939 but received so much resistance that he eventually added front legs.)

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