Finally, they wanted the chair to be comfortable for people who were stuck at their desks for long periods of time. “I looked at straw hats and other things, like wicker furniture,” Stumpf says. “I’ve always hated foam chairs covered in fabric, because they seemed hot and sticky. The skin is an organ, it breathes. This idea of getting something breathable like the straw hat was intriguing to me.”What they settled on was a specially engineered thin elastic mesh stretched tight over the plastic frame. If you looked closely through the mesh, you could see the levers and mechanisms and hard
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