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Reaction Chairs

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Designers

Jerome Caruso Jerome Caruso

Environment

75% recyclable
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LEED Credit Summaries

Awards

  • Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by Business Week magazine, name Levity Collection and Reaction chair Silver Award Winners
    2000
  • Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Seating, Desk/Workstation Chairs" for the Reaction chair
    1998

What's In It For You

  • Product Story

    Fluid movement and easy adjustments for active workers. Reaction is a lively, responsive office chair at a great price.

  • Human-centered Design

    Reaction provides consistent support and easy motion. The tilt mechanism synchronizes the seat and back movement, so that you can recline and move forward again easily. You're fully supported at any point in the wide recline range, and the five-position Recline Selector limits the range of recline to ensure comfort and proper task support. A full complement of adjustments lets you fine-tune the chair to fit, and if you need a quick reminder, you can find the adjustment information on a permanent pull-out instruction card in the seat pan.

  • Comfort Across the Board

    Reaction was designed to fit most of the population. The generous contours of the seat and back and cantilevered arm supports let most people sit comfortably in the chair. It also fits many workplace applications--computer work, general office tasks, meetings.

  • Space and Bottom-line Efficiency

    While the Reaction chair's seat and back contours are larger than on comparable chairs, the overall footprint isn't. Small spaces? This chair fits right in. And its affordable price makes Reaction a smart choice.

  • A Versatile Look

    Every Reaction chair comes with a fully upholstered back. You can simply change the seat back slipcover to create a whole new look.

  • Earth-friendly

    The Reaction chair is up to 75% recyclable at the end of its useful life. All die-cast aluminum components are made entirely from recycled materials and are 100% recyclable. Steel components are also 100% recyclable.

Design Story

  • With more than 75 design patents to his credit, Reaction designer Jerome Caruso takes a hands-on approach and enjoys doing it all - concepts, drawings, prototypes, and engineering. The bigger the challenge, the more fun it is to work out the solution," he says. He's especially intrigued with chairs and vividly recalls the challenge of the high-performance, award-winning Reaction chair, which he designed with his son, Steven.

    "Charles Eames felt that it was important to bring value to as many people as possible," said Caruso. "I agree with him, and I believe that the Reaction chair does that."

  • Reaction is a low-priced, fully adjustable chair with all the quality and function of a Herman Miller product, Caruso explained. "My son Steven and I came up with a new concept of 'energizing' the chair. Using a composite spring made up of glass and fibers, we were able to achieve a very smooth ride.

    "Designing all the support elements from plastic and making many of them multifunctional reduced the cost quite dramatically," he says, "and it's an easy chair to manufacture. But the engineering and design required to get there were quite intense."

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