Herman Miller Embody Owners

I'm also using mine with an IKEA galant desk, with the adjustable T shaped legs, I also bought a corner extension and used kitchen cabinet legs to raise the monitor up. Stick an adjustable footrest underneath and its great.

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For the money I think the Galant stacks up. I spent AGES looking at various desks, trying to find perfection and I never did really. I like a clean desk and clean underneath so this suited me and fitted well.
 
Housey said:
I like a clean desk and clean underneath so this suited me and fitted well.
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It works well from that point of view, I've got the cable routing and two of the PC mounting brackets underneath.

I could actually just unplug the power and move the whole thing to another room in one piece...well if I was strong enough.

Its a flexible system too, I managed to make it fit in to the available space perfectly with the various extension pieces.
 
FYI the Aeron is quite old now and it's starting to show it. The biggest issue people have is the leading edge of the seat is quite hard where you'll see newer chairs has a edge that tends to roll away from the seat. This can compress nerves on the back of your leg and cause discomfort. The Mirra is a better chair in pretty much every way yet costs less.
 
Don't have experience of that particular model, but we have Aerons in various sizes in the office and despite being admittedly comfortable to spend 8-10 hours on, personally I don't think they are worth anywhere near the money being asked. Don't get me wrong, they are competent office chairs and I don't suffer sitting on them five days a week, but in terms of reliability and quality of build, if Argos chairs are £30, IKEA chairs are £90 and Staples chairs are £120, then Henry Miller products shouldn't cost more than £250-300. They are two, three times better, but not 10 times better.

If our office chairs are anything to go by in my experience, all Henry Millers we had, after short while became noisy and all of them now creak to a degree. Some creak like hell. Armrests never stay in place/hold weight for more than few hours no matter how hard you lock them. Additional edge mounted headrests are terrible and cheap in design and come apart. Some chairs developed slight wobble. Some angles in seat mechanisms in several chairs locked up after just two years. Plastic structural element of the seat in one of the XL's broke and collapsed with razor sharp edge protruding through the net material.

Eye of beholder and all, as much as I appreciate industrial design, I find all Henry Miller products particularly fugly and derrivative of 1970ies brutalism. Most of them wouldn't look out of place in one of those American Horror Story asylum torture chambers, but I can't imagine any of then visually improving anyone's 21st century home.
 
Caged said:
FYI the Aeron is quite old now and it's starting to show it. The biggest issue people have is the leading edge of the seat is quite hard where you'll see newer chairs has a edge that tends to roll away from the seat. This can compress nerves on the back of your leg and cause discomfort. The Mirra is a better chair in pretty much every way yet costs less.
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Spot on. The Mirra is a more modern design but doesn't carry the image and has slightly cheaper materials when compared to the Aeron. The issue I had with the Aeron was it never felt a long enough seat, i.e. it didn't support my legs to the extent I like. The Mirra addresses this as the front is foldable up and down and works to address this completely. You can also have the Mirra with both a me mesh back or a plastic back. I was of course going mesh until I sat on both and preferred the plastic back and went in that direction.

As I say I was fully prepared to buy the Aero with all the options for £1,200, but felt the Mirra was simply better for me for half the money.
 
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Don't have experience of that particular model, but we have Aerons in various sizes in the office and despite being admittedly comfortable to spend 8-10 hours on, personally I don't think they are worth anywhere near the money being asked. Don't get me wrong, they are competent office chairs and I don't suffer sitting on them five days a week, but in terms of reliability and quality of build, if Argos chairs are £30, IKEA chairs are £90 and Staples chairs are £120, then Henry Miller products shouldn't cost more than £250-300. They are two, three times better, but not 10 times better.

If our office chairs are anything to go by in my experience, all Henry Millers we had, after short while became noisy and all of them now creak to a degree. Some creak like hell. Armrests never stay in place/hold weight for more than few hours no matter how hard you lock them. Additional edge mounted headrests are terrible and cheap in design and come apart. Some chairs developed slight wobble. Some angles in seat mechanisms in several chairs locked up after just two years. Plastic structural element of the seat in one of the XL's broke and collapsed with razor sharp edge protruding through the net material.

Eye of beholder and all, as much as I appreciate industrial design, I find all Henry Miller products particularly fugly and derrivative of 1970ies brutalism. Most of them wouldn't look out of place in one of those American Horror Story asylum torture chambers, but I can't imagine any of then visually improving anyone's 21st century home.
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First off it's Herman ;)

I have a £200 Ikea chair, it is utter **** and I have seen it recommended by people on here over and over again. I have given it to a college FOC and it is less than 12 months old. He is 26 and will love it, like most the people on here too.

So in my terms my Mirra was 2.5 times the price and it is, unquestionably worth that and then some. It is, as with all things style and fashion based a law of diminishing returns. Is a Porsche GT3 worth twice a Cayman R. For me it is, and then some.

Im sorry but most cheap chairs are cheap for a reason, they are crap at supporting you, which you don't notice if you're young. If you have a weak back, which I do, those crappy designs show themselves.

Too add, they all come with a 12 year guarantee so get them fixed!
 
Completely agree, I'm 25 but spending the amount of time I do in office chairs, Ive actually had to have physio to relieve the back pain in the past.

My chair is worth every penny, and then some.
 
How does the Steelcase Leap compare to these fancy Herman Miller chairs?

I've got a Herman Miller at work (not sure which model) and it's great, but the netting lasts about a year before it starts to fray.
 
I agree IKEA chairs and most chinese tat in office shops are absolutely terrible. My beef starts with the same terrible mounting mechanisms, which almost all chairs reuse these days and all of them have weight distribution and limits designed for a small asian person. In those terms Hermann Miller creates much better furniture. But £1000 would easily buy even the most luxurious electrically reclining leather TV armchairs and most fully adjustable, heated car seats and most of those are designed much better for universal customer, looks, quality of materials and long term use than Miller office chairs. Given no alternative, of course Miller chair is better than high street office chairs in flat packs, but compared to what £1000 buys you in terms of seating furniture in general, the price is just nuts.
 
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I agree IKEA chairs and most chinese tat in office shops are absolutely terrible. My beef starts with the same terrible mounting mechanisms, which almost all chairs reuse these days and all of them have weight distribution and limits designed for a small asian person. In those terms Hermann Miller creates much better furniture. But £1000 would easily buy even the most luxurious electrically reclining leather TV armchairs and most fully adjustable, heated car seats and most of those are designed much better for universal customer, looks, quality of materials and long term use than Miller office chairs. Given no alternative, of course Miller chair is better than high street office chairs in flat packs, but compared to what £1000 buys you in terms of seating furniture in general, the price is just nuts.
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Not really, my sofa was custom built and many thousands. I could have gone to DFS and bought one for £499. I understand the point you are making, I just think they make an exceptional quality product that in the main lasts and is reliable and looks after your body, but you do have to pay also for the brand name but that should not be used to devalue it's quality I feel.
 
To add, in the office chair market you can spend significantly more than 1K on a chair too, so HM are certainly not top end.
 
Housey said:
Spot on. The Mirra is a more modern design but doesn't carry the image and has slightly cheaper materials when compared to the Aeron. The issue I had with the Aeron was it never felt a long enough seat, i.e. it didn't support my legs to the extent I like. The Mirra addresses this as the front is foldable up and down and works to address this completely. You can also have the Mirra with both a me mesh back or a plastic back. I was of course going mesh until I sat on both and preferred the plastic back and went in that direction.

As I say I was fully prepared to buy the Aero with all the options for £1,200, but felt the Mirra was simply better for me for half the money.
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The Embody is the spiritual replacement of the Aeron, think it's had a large price drop recently because it just wasn't selling - the dot com bubble isn't around any more to shift £1000 chairs in the same way the Aeron experienced.
 
Caged said:
The Embody is the spiritual replacement of the Aeron, think it's had a large price drop recently because it just wasn't selling - the dot com bubble isn't around any more to shift £1000 chairs in the same way the Aeron experienced.
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Yea, didn't work for me sadly. Tried it, spent time fiddling with it, just preferred the Mirra. Such a subject thing chairs.
 
I bought 5 Steelcase Think's used off a guy in London a couple of years ago and paid £500. Not sure I'll ever get a bargain like that again, fantastic chairs. I'd like to have a Mirra at work though just to mix it up a bit.
 
Housey said:
Yea, didn't work for me sadly. Tried it, spent time fiddling with it, just preferred the Mirra. Such a subject thing chairs.
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I've been looking at these but I'm put off by the apparent lack of neck and head support. Are there head rests available and do they cost a fortune or is this chair 'longer' than it looks? I'm about 6.1.
 
Hicks said:
I've been looking at these but I'm put off by the apparent lack of neck and head support. Are there head rests available and do they cost a fortune or is this chair 'longer' than it looks? I'm about 6.1.
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I'm the same height, but I have never really felt the need for head rests so cant really answer that one im afraid. :(
 
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