Chair Museum / Aiming for the Ultimate Office Chair
The Okamura Museum was established in 2009. Visitors can learn about the technical and technological history of chair making and also the role of plastics in achieving more comfortable chairs based on ergonomics. (For more information, see the January 2013 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://www.okamura.co.jp/guide/museum/
Aiming for the Ultimate Office Chair
Entering the 2000s, a new type of chair that focused on sitting comfort with ample back support emerged.
The Ercio debuted in 2000 pursued the ultimate in sitting comfort. A plastic net is employed for back support, and a frame structure supported by steel pipe is adopted. Previously, sitting comfort was retained by laying urethane over a rigid plastic sheet, but the structure has now changed so that the plastic does not remain a rigid sheet, but deforms to conform with the seated person, thereby improving sitting comfort.
