Designer of the Freedom and Liberty chairs redefined the act of sitting. Niels Diffrient, who passed away last Saturday at 84, is unanimously called the godfather of ergonomics. He championed function ...

“It’s my intent to make design a more consequential endeavor, not a decorative endeavor.” Thus spoke the industrial designer Niels Diffrient in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. Among ...

The US manufacturer of ergonomic office equipment Humanscale wanted to produce a chair with as few parts as possible, making it lighter to transport and quicker to assemble. Standard task chairs – ...

Dezeen Showroom: work and leisure combine in designer Niels Diffrient's eponymous lounge chair for furniture brand Humanscale. The Diffrient lounge chair invites relaxed, supported sitting with its ...

If you’re sitting in a comfortable chair, you probably owe a word of thanks to Niels Diffrient. The American industrial designer was a pioneer in the field of ergonomics, making products designed to ...

Dezeen Showroom: Humanscale has reimagined its Diffrient Smart office chair, created by the late American industrial designer Niels Diffrient, using plastic made from recycled fishing nets. Called ...

Diffrient was born in rural Mississippi in 1928 and grew up in Detroit. He attended Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University and then graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art where he ...

$15,000 is a lot to spend on a lounge chair – but Humanscale’s Diffrient Lounge is, well, different. Inspired by the work-from-home revolution, jump-started by the global COVID pandemic, the Diffrient ...

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