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Herman Miller Says Phooey to Financial Crisis

Still have a job? Thumb your nose at thrift with a $1600 office chair

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 6, 2008 1:25 PM CST

(Newser) – With a "bah!" to the financial crisis, furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has introduced a chair that costs $1,600—making you “all the more comfortable as you sit for eight hours staring in disbelief at your plummeting stock portfolio,” writes Stacey Higginibotham on GigaOm. The Embody, a follow-up to the popular Aeron ($949), claims to promote “health-positive sitting,” with surfaces designed to distribute weight evenly.

Purchase one, writes Higginbotham, and you'll be able to relive “the boom times of 2007 when stocks were soaring and people spent $5 on a cup of coffee and $60,000 on an all-natural horsehair mattress from Sweden.”

Herman Miller's new 'Embody' Chair, designed by Jeff Weber, comes with a $1600 price tag and claims of improving your health, according to GigaOm.
Herman Miller's new 'Embody' Chair, designed by Jeff Weber, comes with a $1600 price tag and claims of improving your health, according to GigaOm.   (wired)
The new Embody Chair follows up the wildly popular Aeron Chair, pictured here, which you can pick up for the comparatively low price of $949, according to GigaOm.
The new Embody Chair follows up the wildly popular Aeron Chair, pictured here, which you can pick up for the comparatively low price of $949, according to GigaOm.   (©jeffk)
Herman Miller's price-of-a-vacation chair.
Herman Miller's price-of-a-vacation chair.   (Herman Miller)
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Jeff Weber designed Herman Miller's new 'Embody' Chair. It's the successor to the wildly popular Aeron chair.   (wired)

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