Freedom Chair - by Humanscale

by Humanscale

Product Features

• FREE FedEx shipping within the continental U.S.
• Limited lifetime warranty from Humanscale.
• Designed by Niels Diffrient

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001BQ28R0
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #784,170 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Color: Hdrest, Adv. arms, Gel seat, Black Wave on Graph

Freedom by Humanscale promises to transform the way office, seating is designed and utilized. Beyond traditional office, seating, Freedom functions as a high performance work-tool, integrating technology, design and the science of human factors. Experienc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing chair!, January 4, 2008

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Jen Smythe "Jen" - See all my reviews

I have owned this chair for over a year now. I purchased it when I was doing web site design from home, and would be sitting for long periods of time. I was having severe back pain prior to this purchase. This chair has made all the difference in being able to be productive for long periods of time. It is very comfortable, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has to sit and work from behind a desk, doing computer work, for long periods of time.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars better than a chiropractor, April 24, 2007

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2sleepy (Reno, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This is one amazing chair. I work out of a home office, and sometimes sit for 8-10 hours at a time, I also have some serious lower back problems. I can spend all day in this chair and my back doesn't bother me a bit. The coolest thing is the headrest, don't ask me how it works but it is out of your way when you sit upright, but when you recline, it adjusts your body angle so that you are still looking straight ahead, not at the ceiling as one normally would. The chair is not cheap, but since I spend alot of my day in it, I don't mind spending the extra money.

1.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced, over-hyped, uncomfortable chair, November 26, 2011

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S. Howarth (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freedom Chair by Humanscale - Headrest, Adv. Arms, Black Leather on Titanium

Make sure you read the negative reviews before investing so much money in this product, they are absolutely spot on.

1) The headrest pushes your neck sharply forward into a deeply uncomfortable position. It hurts to lie back and rest your head to read or work in this chair, despite the fact that it is designed to recline. I want to remove the headrest altogether.

2) The seat padding is hard and extremely uncomfortable and bruises my behind on regular 7+ hour use. As much as the padding is insufficient, the supposedly ergonomic bowed 'bucket'-shape of the seat compresses the glutes and thighs into themselves. I recommend adding a soft cushion to try and work around the problem.

3) As mentioned by others, the arm rests are very poorly designed. Both of mine cracked after a single year of use and finally snapped off the chair completely. And I consider myself to be very careful with my possessions. Additionally, the mechanism for raising and lowering the arm rests became looser and looser through use until it began to sag and no longer support the arms horizontally, making them nigh-on useless.

4) As others have said, the chair reclines much too easily. Even the slightest backward pressure and you find yourself flying back and lying like you're in a business-class airline seat. It's really extremely impractical and very annoying.

5) The way the back sits in relation to the base means you tend to slide forward in the chair and feel like you're going to slide right off. You have to keep pushing yourself back into the seat, which becomes tiresome and stressing after a while.

6) The headrest on mine started to come off because the screws embedded within the headrest pad (!) came loose, leaving a dangerously sharp screw protruding beneath the headrest. And because those screws are embedded within the headrest padding, you can't reattach them without literally tearing the headrest material apart.

7) The supposed 15-year 'warranty' is a complete nonsense. Try getting a response from Humanscale! They simply ignore all emails and phonecalls. I even asked to just pay myself for replacement arms, and still received no response. Unbelievable.

8) I don't think this chair is as good as many chairs on the market at just 10% of its price. Its unbelievable they hype and myth they've managed to build around this badly designed, unergonomic rip-off. I sincerely suggest - at the very least - that you TRY this chair before committing to buying it. I didn't, and I regret that I can never get that money back from this awful product.

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