Freedom Chair Configurator
Winner of over 10 major design awards, Niels Diffrient’s Freedom Task fuses flexible style with unparalleled support. Its physics-powered design adapts effortlessly to your body, providing customized comfort in any posture, and encouraging healthy movement throughout your day.
• Smooth, modern aesthetic brings design to any space – from your office to your home.• Unlike most ergonomic task chairs, Freedom adapts to your movement - not the other way around - with full support from position to position.
• Sculpted backrest and thick cushions reinforce comfort and enhance everyday posture.
• Net Positive certification means each Freedom manufactured actively reverses damage to the environment.
• Freedom Task is yours with a 15-year warranty.
Designed by Niels Diffrient
Winner of over 10 major design awards, Niels Diffrient’s Freedom Task fuses flexible style with unparalleled support. Its physics-powered design adapts effortlessly to your body, providing customized comfort in any posture, and encouraging healthy movement throughout your day.
• Smooth, modern aesthetic brings design to any space – from your office to your home.• Unlike most ergonomic task chairs, Freedom adapts to your movement - not the other way around - with full support from position to position.
• Sculpted backrest and thick cushions reinforce comfort and enhance everyday posture.
• Net Positive certification means each Freedom manufactured actively reverses damage to the environment.
• Freedom Task is yours with a 15-year warranty.
Winner of over 10 major design awards, Niels Diffrient’s Freedom Task fuses flexible style with unparalleled support. Its physics-powered design adapts effortlessly to your body, providing customized comfort in any posture, and encouraging healthy movement throughout your day.
• Smooth, modern aesthetic brings design to any space – from your office to your home.• Unlike most ergonomic task chairs, Freedom adapts to your movement - not the other way around - with full support from position to position.
• Sculpted backrest and thick cushions reinforce comfort and enhance everyday posture.
• Net Positive certification means each Freedom manufactured actively reverses damage to the environment.
• Freedom Task is yours with a 15-year warranty.
ABOUT THE DESIGN
The Freedom task chair revolutionises the way people sit. With its weight-sensitive recline and synchronously adjustable armrests, it set new standards for task chair performance and functionality. With a sculpted foam backrest to match the contours of the human body and thick cushions for long lasting comfort, it provides a custom ergonomic fit for every user.
WHAT IS A NET POSITIVE PRODUCT?
Freedom Task Chair is Living Product Certified, meeting the most rigorous sustainable manufacturing criteria to date. This means that Freedom Task Chair is climate, water and energy positive. Every time we make these products the planet is better off. With a mission to create a healthier world, we are proud that over 60% of our products are certified net positive.
Learn more about our Net Positive Products
Please inquire with your local Humanscale office for product availability.
Chair Width: 690mm (27.25")
Base Width: 635mm (25")
Height: 510mm (20")
Chair Weight: 16.1 kg (35.5 lbs.) with arms / 14 kg (30.8 lbs.) without arms
Niels Diffrient's designs are grounded in the philosophy that form follows function. His work has spanned generations, consistently looking past trends to reinvent the tools we use for daily living.
With an academic foundation in design and architecture and a degree from Cranbrook Academy, Diffrient channels his knowledge of engineering, architecture, and human factors into the creation of highly functional and aesthetically timeless designs.
From his early work with the studios of Eero Saarinen, Marco Zanuso, and Henry Dreyfuss to his current work with Humanscale, Diffrient's visionary talent has been widely recognised. Included among his many honours are the 2002 National Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 1999 Chrysler Design Award. In recent years, Diffrient has focused his energies on designs for the office environment, particularly seating--a category in which he has pioneered numerous breakthroughs, from pneumatic cylinders for seat height adjustment to weight-activated automatic recline.
Niels Diffrient's designs are grounded in the philosophy that form follows function. His work has spanned generations, consistently looking past trends to reinvent the tools we use for daily living.
With an academic foundation in design and architecture and a degree from Cranbrook Academy, Diffrient channels his knowledge of engineering, architecture, and human factors into the creation of highly functional and aesthetically timeless designs.
From his early work with the studios of Eero Saarinen, Marco Zanuso, and Henry Dreyfuss to his current work with Humanscale, Diffrient's visionary talent has been widely recognised. Included among his many honours are the 2002 National Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 1999 Chrysler Design Award. In recent years, Diffrient has focused his energies on designs for the office environment, particularly seating--a category in which he has pioneered numerous breakthroughs, from pneumatic cylinders for seat height adjustment to weight-activated automatic recline.
"My idea was that, instead of sitting down and reaching for a lot of controls, that you would sit on the chair, and it would automatically balance your weight against the force required to recline."
Niels Diffrient, Designer
Eager to create a truly ergonomic task chair that adjusted to the user automatically, Niels Diffrient created Freedom, which allows the sitter to change postures effortlessly. Replacing the traditional recline mechanism with a weight-sensitive one, Diffrient’s Freedom task chair revolutionized the way people sit.
"My idea was that, instead of sitting down and reaching for a lot of controls, that you would sit on the chair, and it would automatically balance your weight against the force required to recline."
Niels Diffrient, Designer
Eager to create a truly ergonomic task chair that adjusted to the user automatically, Niels Diffrient created Freedom, which allows the sitter to change postures effortlessly. Replacing the traditional recline mechanism with a weight-sensitive one, Diffrient’s Freedom task chair revolutionized the way people sit.
