Furniture can be a huge investment. For most people, however, spending a couple hundred dollars on a chair seems like the top reasonable amount to pay. The following list of the 10 most expensive office chairs available, however, shows a totally different side of the market.
Even within this group of luxurious chairs, there is a large amount of price variation. Depending on the style and age of your desired office chair, there could be a several thousand dollar price difference. These 10 office chairs are the best money can buy, each fitting a unique niche appeal.
10. Think Chair from Steelcase – $900
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The Think Chair from Steelcase is sort of the everyman’s high-end office chair. At only $900, this chair is actually on the lower end of the spectrum when compared to the others on this list. The price tag, however, still gains it a spot on this list. Especially given the style of the chair.
Even within this group of luxurious chairs, there is a large amount of price variation. Depending on the style and age of your desired office chair, there could be a several thousand dollar price difference. These 10 office chairs are the best money can buy, each fitting a unique niche appeal.
10. Think Chair from Steelcase – $900
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The Think Chair from Steelcase is sort of the everyman’s high-end office chair. At only $900, this chair is actually on the lower end of the spectrum when compared to the others on this list. The price tag, however, still gains it a spot on this list. Especially given the style of the chair.
- 6/25/2018
- by Brad
- SoundOnSight
Warren Beatty likes to call his creative collaboration a dialectic and, if a recent roundtable discussion about “Rules Don’t Apply” is any indication, he inspired personal reflection from cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, costume designer Albert Wolsky, production designer Jeannine Oppewall and composer Eddie Arkin.
Which was important for this historically-inspired romcom, in which legendary producer-tycoon Howard Hughes plays cupid in late ’50s Hollywood to a young couple played by Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins. Beatty and his key collaborators really dug into the retro vibe.
“I never identified with Howard Hughes,” insisted Beatty, who never met the reclusive billionaire but was amused by his Garbo-like secrecy and the eccentric way he wielded power. That’s why he spent nearly 30 years trying to make a movie about Hughes, attracted like a moth to the flame.
See more Warren Beatty Talks Hollywood Legends, Humanizing Howard Hughes and More in Career-Spanning IndieWire Interview
“If I identified with somebody,...
Which was important for this historically-inspired romcom, in which legendary producer-tycoon Howard Hughes plays cupid in late ’50s Hollywood to a young couple played by Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins. Beatty and his key collaborators really dug into the retro vibe.
“I never identified with Howard Hughes,” insisted Beatty, who never met the reclusive billionaire but was amused by his Garbo-like secrecy and the eccentric way he wielded power. That’s why he spent nearly 30 years trying to make a movie about Hughes, attracted like a moth to the flame.
See more Warren Beatty Talks Hollywood Legends, Humanizing Howard Hughes and More in Career-Spanning IndieWire Interview
“If I identified with somebody,...
- 11/25/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
This engrossing documentary recounts through eloquent interviews and fascinating archive footage the joint careers of the charismatic Charles Eames and his wife, Ray. He was an architect who never completed his degree; she gave up a promising future as a painter when they moved from the midwest to California early in the second world war and set up a firm that became an American equivalent of the Bauhaus. Their early wartime work designing splints for the military led to their revolutionary postwar modernist furniture, and up until the late 1970s, they were in the vanguard of every branch of design in America, from film to international exhibitions. A riveting story.
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- 8/4/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
This documentary about the famous designers celebrates a unique kind of American creativity that anticipates the digital age
This documentary by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey celebrates a unique kind of American creativity. Charles Eames, in underacknowledged partnership with his artist wife, Ray Eames, created a design studio in the mid-20th century in Venice, California. It was not merely a question of their classic Eames chair. They worked in almost every field of art, architecture and design; acting like an ad agency, they accepted commissions from big corporations like Ibm to produce idiosyncratic promotional films that humanised their sponsors and look now like the most earnest but entertaining instructional movies liable to be shown in Us high schools. The most celebrated of these is Powers of Ten (1968), a 9-minute animation about relative scale starting with an overhead shot of a sunbathing couple, zooming out progressively into space and then...
This documentary by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey celebrates a unique kind of American creativity. Charles Eames, in underacknowledged partnership with his artist wife, Ray Eames, created a design studio in the mid-20th century in Venice, California. It was not merely a question of their classic Eames chair. They worked in almost every field of art, architecture and design; acting like an ad agency, they accepted commissions from big corporations like Ibm to produce idiosyncratic promotional films that humanised their sponsors and look now like the most earnest but entertaining instructional movies liable to be shown in Us high schools. The most celebrated of these is Powers of Ten (1968), a 9-minute animation about relative scale starting with an overhead shot of a sunbathing couple, zooming out progressively into space and then...
- 8/2/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Ratings (out of five): *** 1/2
Architects are more and more in the movies these days. Over the past few years, we've had the likes of Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry (and just why isn't the Gehry film, Sketches of Frank Gehry, listed on the IMDb or as part of the oeuvre of its director Sydney Pollack?) and Charles Eames getting their very own movie (though Chas had to share his with wife Ray). Now comes Sir Norman Foster, a knight of the British realm, whose name is new to me (clearly, I doesn't follow architecture, at least, not until a movie is made about that architect) but whose work, when you see it all together as you do here, is pretty damned impressive.
Ratings (out of five): *** 1/2
Architects are more and more in the movies these days. Over the past few years, we've had the likes of Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry (and just why isn't the Gehry film, Sketches of Frank Gehry, listed on the IMDb or as part of the oeuvre of its director Sydney Pollack?) and Charles Eames getting their very own movie (though Chas had to share his with wife Ray). Now comes Sir Norman Foster, a knight of the British realm, whose name is new to me (clearly, I doesn't follow architecture, at least, not until a movie is made about that architect) but whose work, when you see it all together as you do here, is pretty damned impressive.
- 6/19/2012
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey’s documentary Eames: The Architect And The Painter isn’t just about influential 20th-century designer Charles Eames, or even about Charles and his wife Ray; it’s also about the studio full of creative types that they oversaw. And while Charles is “the architect” of the title and Ray “the painter,” they and their collaborators were also filmmakers, toymakers, historians, photographers, and curators. And that’s not even taking into account the Eames furniture, which brought modernism to the middle class and gave Charles and Ray the financial freedom to pursue whatever creative whim struck ...
- 1/18/2012
- avclub.com
Modern American design and its history have become major preoccupations within contemporary cosmopolitan circles. Gary Hustwit recently finished his third documentary on the subject, Mad Men makes us nostalgically long for clean copy and clear utility, and the death of Steve Jobs brought forth considerations of the important connections between user-friendliness, sleek aesthetics, and the construction of products around human intuition. Making the case that we have still yet to exhaust what continually proves to be a fascinating and increasingly relevant subject, Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey’s historical documentary Eames: The Architect and The Painter traverses the fascinating life of a couple whose contributions broadly determined what modern postwar American life looked and felt like. As narrator James Franco romantically points towards the beginning of the film, Charles Eames was an architect who never got his license, and Ray Eames was a painter who rarely painted. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of their influential lives was...
- 11/18/2011
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Few designers have had an impact on the way the modern world functions in the same way that Ray and Charles Eames have. With a combination of stylish modernity and a keen eye on the bottom line, they made things – furniture, installations, movies – that were both functional and fun. And "Eames: The Architect and the Painter" is a similar contraption – deceptively cool and sometimes giddily fun but fairly rudimentary at its core.
- 11/16/2011
- The Playlist
The Kartell store in San Francisco is a monument to plastic. The place glitters like a diamond, or rather, a cubic zirconium — with brightly colored plastic chairs and tables and tchochkes commissioned from some of the world’s star designers. Still, the salesman seemed unfazed when I entered the store, not long ago, lugging my own plastic chair, one I’d bought at Home Depot.
My chair was an example of the breed known in industry circles as the monobloc...
My chair was an example of the breed known in industry circles as the monobloc...
- 5/7/2011
- by Susan Freinkel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Photographs Jason Madara
Eight Sparks of Inspiration.
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As A Globe-trotting principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel. But with the design of San Francisco International Airport's newly renovated Terminal 2, which opened in April, he believes he has built a winning experience. "We strived to completely turn things around," Weindel says. That includes big moves -- like an expansive post-security seating area filled with art -- and green ambitions. "It's on track to be the first Leed Gold terminal in the U.S.," he says, pointing to extensive natural light, energy-saving ventilation, paperless ticketing systems, toilets that use reclaimed water, and local- and organic-food vendors. But for all those progressive ideas, Weindel trusts the tried and true when it comes to an architect's tools.
Architectural models
In a modern world of digital renderings, Weindel stresses the importance of...
Eight Sparks of Inspiration.
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As A Globe-trotting principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel. But with the design of San Francisco International Airport's newly renovated Terminal 2, which opened in April, he believes he has built a winning experience. "We strived to completely turn things around," Weindel says. That includes big moves -- like an expansive post-security seating area filled with art -- and green ambitions. "It's on track to be the first Leed Gold terminal in the U.S.," he says, pointing to extensive natural light, energy-saving ventilation, paperless ticketing systems, toilets that use reclaimed water, and local- and organic-food vendors. But for all those progressive ideas, Weindel trusts the tried and true when it comes to an architect's tools.
Architectural models
In a modern world of digital renderings, Weindel stresses the importance of...
- 5/6/2011
- by Tim McKeough
- Fast Company
Eye-popping design puts mid-century architecture 'through the prism of 2010,' says show's executive producer.
By James Montgomery
The 2010 Vma stage
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theater itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
By James Montgomery
The 2010 Vma stage
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theater itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
- 9/12/2010
- MTV Music News
Eye-popping design puts mid-century architecture 'through the prism of 2010,' says show's executive producer.
By James Montgomery
The Vma stage during Usher's rehearsal
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theatre itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
By James Montgomery
The Vma stage during Usher's rehearsal
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theatre itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
- 9/12/2010
- MTV Music News
Roger Sterling’s new office in the Time-Life building on 6th Avenue. Eero Saarinen ‘Tulip’ pedestal desk Artimede Nesso mushroom lamp Charles Eames executive chair (the “Time-Life Chair” designed specifically...
- 7/26/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
It’s been a while but the Mouth Off team were too tempted by the furious momentum of Christopher Nolan’s Inception to sit this one out and the podcast returns to take apart the latest film from the man some people claim to be ‘The New Kubrick”.
That and other misguided statements about the film are lined up against the wall and debated to death as Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly and I talk all things Nolan – the films and the hype and we also look closer at why Inception has garnered such a overwhelmingly positive response.
As always there’s our Ripped From the Crypt selections to take home with you in a party bag.
Click here to subscribe or listen to the Mouth Off feed in iTunes, where you can also find our older episodes, and if you’re feeling generous please leave us a review.
I hope you enjoy it,...
That and other misguided statements about the film are lined up against the wall and debated to death as Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly and I talk all things Nolan – the films and the hype and we also look closer at why Inception has garnered such a overwhelmingly positive response.
As always there’s our Ripped From the Crypt selections to take home with you in a party bag.
Click here to subscribe or listen to the Mouth Off feed in iTunes, where you can also find our older episodes, and if you’re feeling generous please leave us a review.
I hope you enjoy it,...
- 7/23/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In my last post, I told you that to make great design happen, you have to follow the money. There are many companies--Dyson, BMW, Nike, and Oxo come to mind--that have design in their DNA. And more companies are getting into design as fast as I can type. New direction setting for design is often initiated top down.
For example, Bob Ulrich, the CEO of Target, recognized design as an opportunity to compete against Walmart. He established a mantra--"Trend right, guest-focused and design-driven"--and commissioned several design superstars from outside the company to make an impact. It worked. Target built upon that success by developing an internal and fully integrated design organization; now the design solutions come from the bottom up.
So too, former Chairman Lee Kun-hee of Samsung recognized the value of design for his company, and set major corporate initiatives in place to build its capabilities: benchmarking,...
For example, Bob Ulrich, the CEO of Target, recognized design as an opportunity to compete against Walmart. He established a mantra--"Trend right, guest-focused and design-driven"--and commissioned several design superstars from outside the company to make an impact. It worked. Target built upon that success by developing an internal and fully integrated design organization; now the design solutions come from the bottom up.
So too, former Chairman Lee Kun-hee of Samsung recognized the value of design for his company, and set major corporate initiatives in place to build its capabilities: benchmarking,...
- 6/17/2010
- by Thomas Lockwood
- Fast Company
Jeff Weber spotted a design rarity: The market opportunity is massive, and the products out there are terrible.
When Jeff Weber suffered an injury to his left foot five years ago, he was given a set of standard crutches from the hospital. But the crutches were uncomfortable and seemed to only add ergonomic insult to the original injury: Weber's hands chaffed and his wrists ached because of poorly designed, badly placed grips. “All in all, it was a pretty awful experience,” he recalls.
Weber is a seating designer by trade, and apprenticed to Bill Stumpf, a legendary pioneer of ergonomic design and co-creator of the famed Aeron chair for Herman Miller; later, the two created the Aeron's heir, the Embody. It's no surprise that Weber set his sights on crutches, which account for $320 million annual sales on 10 million units in the U.S. alone.
He started working out sketches and...
When Jeff Weber suffered an injury to his left foot five years ago, he was given a set of standard crutches from the hospital. But the crutches were uncomfortable and seemed to only add ergonomic insult to the original injury: Weber's hands chaffed and his wrists ached because of poorly designed, badly placed grips. “All in all, it was a pretty awful experience,” he recalls.
Weber is a seating designer by trade, and apprenticed to Bill Stumpf, a legendary pioneer of ergonomic design and co-creator of the famed Aeron chair for Herman Miller; later, the two created the Aeron's heir, the Embody. It's no surprise that Weber set his sights on crutches, which account for $320 million annual sales on 10 million units in the U.S. alone.
He started working out sketches and...
- 6/3/2010
- by Kaomi Goetz
- Fast Company
Jeff Weber spotted a design rarity: The market opportunity is massive, and the products out there are terrible.
When Jeff Weber suffered an injury to his left foot five years ago, he was given a set of standard crutches from the hospital. But the crutches were uncomfortable and seemed to only add ergonomic insult to the original injury: Weber's hands chaffed and his wrists ached because of poorly designed, badly placed grips. “All in all, it was a pretty awful experience,” he recalls.
Weber is a seating designer by trade, and apprenticed to Bill Stumpf, a legendary pioneer of ergonomic design. Weber helped Stumpf design the famed Aeron chair for Herman Miller; later, they created the Embody. It's no surprise that Weber set his sights on crutches, which account for $320 million annual sales on 10 million units in the U.S. alone.
He started working out sketches and eventually took them...
When Jeff Weber suffered an injury to his left foot five years ago, he was given a set of standard crutches from the hospital. But the crutches were uncomfortable and seemed to only add ergonomic insult to the original injury: Weber's hands chaffed and his wrists ached because of poorly designed, badly placed grips. “All in all, it was a pretty awful experience,” he recalls.
Weber is a seating designer by trade, and apprenticed to Bill Stumpf, a legendary pioneer of ergonomic design. Weber helped Stumpf design the famed Aeron chair for Herman Miller; later, they created the Embody. It's no surprise that Weber set his sights on crutches, which account for $320 million annual sales on 10 million units in the U.S. alone.
He started working out sketches and eventually took them...
- 6/2/2010
- by Kaomi Goetz
- Fast Company
Antonio Larosa, a native of Milan, is chair of the Scad furniture department and the kind of designer who makes you want to join the revolution. "American furniture design has been hibernating for fifty years," he said to me earlier this week. "I want to wake it up!"
Pw: So, you want to reinvent American furniture design.
Al: When I first came to the U.S., I was surprised by how much furniture designers were misunderstood in this country. I was in an elevator in New York City, this was 1991, and a very nice lady asked what I did for a living. I told her I was a furniture designer, and she starts to tell me about her wobbly bookcase. She asked, "Can you fix this for me?" This is what people do in America when you tell them you design furniture! They think you are a repairman!
Pw: How is it different in Italy?...
Pw: So, you want to reinvent American furniture design.
Al: When I first came to the U.S., I was surprised by how much furniture designers were misunderstood in this country. I was in an elevator in New York City, this was 1991, and a very nice lady asked what I did for a living. I told her I was a furniture designer, and she starts to tell me about her wobbly bookcase. She asked, "Can you fix this for me?" This is what people do in America when you tell them you design furniture! They think you are a repairman!
Pw: How is it different in Italy?...
- 9/4/2009
- by Paula Wallace
- Fast Company
Midcentury designers Ray and Charles Eames were famous for emerging on top of a dragging post-war economy by working with inexpensive materials and affordable manufacturers. But the foundation for the husband-and-wife designers, created by their daughter Lucia Eames in 2004 to honor their legacies, still needs to make up for low endowment in a downturn. This weekend, a silent auction will be held to raise money for the Eames Foundation, with 13 pretty unique items up for grabs. Although some of the items are slightly more exclusive than the Eameses likely intended--they adhered to the notion that good design should be accessible to all--some of these are truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for a rabid design fan. Have a designing dad? It is Fathers' Day, after all!
Eames Studio Overnight: Spend a night in the pristine midcentury modern studio (not the famous house, but the similar adjacent studio). One night for two people starts...
Eames Studio Overnight: Spend a night in the pristine midcentury modern studio (not the famous house, but the similar adjacent studio). One night for two people starts...
- 6/20/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a cycle at work here, and in my view we are presently half way through it. Let's call it the Design Cycle. Case in point: Jc Penney. Not many people remember that not so long ago, a design job at this now undistinguished department store was a coveted position for a designer. Jc Penney had its own design staff and was promoting design. Sure, it was '70s design, but design none the less. Jc Penney was today's Target.
There's no doubt that we are in a tough economy, but while the current recession may be more severe than some earlier ones it, too, is part of a cycle.
There's no doubt that we are in a tough economy, but while the current recession may be more severe than some earlier ones it, too, is part of a cycle.
- 5/27/2009
- by Mark Dziersk
- Fast Company
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