Give or take just a few of the phrases, it sounds a little bit just like the design imaginative and prescient which may as soon as have guided the making of an all-singing activity chair. In 2023, nonetheless, the ambition for the design of an workplace chair is markedly completely different. Forward of any fancy performance is the necessity to shrink, if not extinguish, its antagonistic influence on the setting. ‘You may’t tickle across the edges. You’ve obtained to make sustainability a basic a part of the decision-making course of at each stage,’ says Mark Barrell, design director at Boss Design, the British firm that has been making high-quality reasonably priced workplace furnishings for 40 years. Sia is Boss Design’s latest activity chair and its design is the corporate’s most sustainable up to now. What’s extra, the pondering behind it isn’t solely reshaping the way in which a chair is put collectively, however the firm’s enterprise mannequin.