In response to this post I looked to find out when the Steelcase Leap chair was introduced (1999) and found a few interesting things about it:
It was designed by IDEO.
Bruce Sterling writes about ergo chairs in Wired during the height of the dot com boom ninteen years ago this month.
https://www.wired.com/2000/07/chairs/
"The chair was developed over four years, cost $35 million to design, and resulted in 11 academic studies and 23 patents."
It was designed by IDEO.
Bruce Sterling writes about ergo chairs in Wired during the height of the dot com boom ninteen years ago this month. https://www.wired.com/2000/07/chairs/
"The chair was developed over four years, cost $35 million to design, and resulted in 11 academic studies and 23 patents."
David Pogue reviews the Steelcase Gesture in the NY Times and discusses its predecessor the Leap: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/technology/personaltech/a...