I’m finally (again) working on replacing my home office chair. This one has really lasted quite a while, since my dorm room days on January 19, 2001.
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[2]I had tried to replace it once in the late aughts, but that chair was of much lower quality and isn’t with me anymore. It didn’t make one of the moves, either the move to Seattle or the first move within Seattle.
[3]Does a 24 year-old piece of furniture need some kind of official burial or something?
Also still not sure I feel like I can drop a grand and a half on a Herman Miller chair yet…
Herman Miller has an amazing 12-year warranty. But it’s not transferable. Used Herman Miller chairs sell for between $350 to $500 usually, but of course, they’re not covered by the warranty. A new fully loaded Herman Miller Mirra 2 chair is about $1,500 before discounts; while a Herman Miller Aeron is about $1,900.
On the other hand, that might be the last chair I need.
Herman Miller has made the choices quite hard, perhaps on purpose. The Aeron has two different kinds of lumbar support, one that is height-adjustable and one that is depth-adjustable. The Mirra 2 has a single lumbar support that is both height- and depth-adjustable, but it only comes in a single size, while the Aeron comes in three different sizes.
Sometimes, I’d also like a headrest. Mainly when I think about the long-term vision, but according to my wife, I need it mainly when I think “these people are idiots.” Neither the Aeron nor the Mirra 2 have headrests, but it’s easier to find after-market headrests for the Aeron.
Finally, I would really like to turn the chair into a geeky version of a “captain’s chair” [4] and attach split keyboards to the armrests, especially because of my earlier search for a good keyboard replacement. And I’m not quite sure how well I can attach arms to the Mirra 2, which is really the only Herman Miller chair to which I have frequent access.
But perhaps I shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and just get a new chair of some kind.
