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Standing, sitting, reclining–changing postures is good for the body, and ergonomists say we should do it frequently. Movement keeps the disks in the spine hydrated and increases blood flow, pumping oxygen to the brain and improving focus and productivity. Our bodies send us reminders to move; it’s important to listen to them.
Watch our “Work Better Video” to learn more, by Herman Miller.
Antenna by Knoll, designers Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger. Antenna Workspaces begins with a simple structure—the table—that is inherently collaborative.
The top rests on a base composed of two steel end legs and two tubular rails that span between them, linked by cast aluminum cradles. The result is an extraordinarily strong table. Antenna Workspaces desks and storage elements create highly efficient focused work areas for open plan environments and private offices.
From the reception area to individual, combi, open-plan, workstations and directors’ offices, LaMercanti offers design office furniture solutions for the entire organisation. Guided by the rules of modern office design and tailored to meet the customer’s needs.
The key to LaMercanti‘s success is the company’s ability to give shape to always new syntheses of aesthetic refinement, technological innovation and passion for details: distinctively Italian values, to furnish today’s and tomorrow’s world.
La Mercanti offers comprehensive assistance to the customer in the form of spatial planning, specification of products and project management.
A crucial element of office environment is the office chair.
Investing in ergonomic office chairs means investing in the most important resources of any company: the human resources.
Paying attention to the needs of your employees by investing in special Italian office chairs when needed helps to improve company morale and that has a positive effect on your bottom line.
La Mercanti has the mentality that conceives man first and foremost, combining innovation, comfort, relax and ergonomics, essential ingredients to offer premium products ranging from the CEO executive armchairs to presidential, from manager chairs to task operative and meeting room chairs.
Materials, finishes, fabrics and coverings are adapted to satisfy precise requirements both in practical and aesthetic terms: easy maintenance, comfort, resistance to fire and wear.
Sitland, Luxy, Arper are only some of the brands that La Mercanti delivery everywhere in the world: buy online directly from Italy, delivery everywhere in the world.
Ola by Martex, is a modern, prestigious and elegant desk design that furnishes the office space as the home space in a personal and original way.
In April 2009, in Prague, there was the sixth edition of International Fair PRAGOINTERIER, which was attended by the most famous Brand in the furniture design world. Here, Martex Office already received the prize New Design for Ola desk designed by Mario Mazzer. Now this home-office desk, in the “furniture” section, wins also the Goods Design Awards 2009, a prestigious and international prize.
Why these prizes?
The high level of the desk is the result of the particular shape and the value of materials. The strength of the elliptical shaped basement is further complemented by the 15 mm transparent crystal glass top with a black or white serigraphy printing. Round top in mdf white lacquered and Cristalplant base.
Executive office desk, Ola round table is also used as a meeting table and, many times, is required as dining table.
Anyone who has been a student at the university can understand how annoying can be listen to a lesson and get out continually of their seat gathering up their materials to permit to pass someone who wants to sit in the middle of row!
To solve this problem, the Indaco Department of the Milan Polytechnic in collaboration with the study center Lamm, conducted a research on the ergonomic aspects of lecture hall furnishings and was born Turner.
Turner is an innovative seat and table system that modifies the design approach to educational spaces, because it responds to functional, ergonomic and technical-performance needs, but above all to behavioral factors and grants greater freedom of movement.
Thanks to a sophisticated set of coordinated movements, using mechanisms for reclining and double rotation of the seats, it permits great flexibility of use because, to enter or leave a seat one moves along a transit space created behind the backs, without disturbing the other people, who can remain comfortably seated.
Kaleidos, design by Michele De Lucchi and Sezgin Aksu, is the result of a very long study to find the most suitable material and production technology. This plastic chair is good for workplace, for public venues and also for the home. Kaleidos is one of the latest product born to Caimi Brevetti.
Its most obvious feature is the surface finish that also extends to the edges: in the transparent version, it has a totally threedimensional and dynamic effect, while in the black or white versions it looks as though it’s covered with shimmering silk. The support frames are available in two variants, with 4 legs in chromed steel or with chromed tubular steel structure. Then, the unusual texture confers a totally new tactile effect.
Kaleidos is also a comfortable chair, the unusual wraparound shape of the sheel, reminiscent of the sports car bucket seat, contains the sitter’s body adhering to it perfectly. It consists of just one piece and is a 100% recyclable copolymer with good resistance to chemical agents.
The office interior is incomplete without office furniture, and the latter must be in line with the overall office design. At the same time it must be ergonomic. A crucial element of office furniture is office chair.
What do we mean by comfort in work seating, and how is it measured?
Comfort, safety and adaptability are foundamental parameters of ergonomic quality in products. To measure the comfort of seating there are two fundamental aspects. The first has to do with the form of the seat and the back, or namely the right curvature for both in terms of angles and resistance to weight. Secondly, there are the questions of height and regulation, based on criteria of adaptability to permit tall and short people to use the same chair with equal comfort.
When we can say that a chair is really ergonomic?
Only when we have the sensation of not sitting down, even after a couple of hours in the same position.
There are elements that are important for comfort, although the best solution is changing often position: it is important to stand up now and then, or at least to move from a position where the back rests against something to an upright sitting position in which the back is not supported. When we seat in an office chair the back support is the most essential part. It must be optimally curved and cushioned to provide the back and spine maximum support and rest when used.
Another important parameter for the measurement of comfort of seating is undoubtedly that of the covering. First of all, we have to consider whether the material breathes; but we also need to consider aspects like cleanliness and safety, especially in case of fire.
When we are seated is there something we can do to reduce the loads?
Sure, we need a chair that can favor proper movement, in order to nourish and lubricate the intervertebral disks.
Though less important than the back, the armrests also have a role to play for the comfort of seating and the prevention of physical problems.
Today the market offers solution in which the armrests are not only height-adjustable, but also can change their angles. It’s important for them to be sufficiently soft and wide, for resting the elbows while working with computer keyboards. So a good chair should permit easy mobility of hands and legs.