Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Office Chair Gas Lift Problems
Monday, April 28, 2008
Massive Reconditioned Office Chair Sale!!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The Right Office Chair is a Must
We may not like to admit it, but those of us with office jobs spend most of our time sitting, while having breakfast, driving to work and most of our working day. Sitting requires less physical effort than standing or walking, but it puts a lot of stress on the lumbar area. A suitable office chair is a critical step in preventing health problems.
“Minor aches and pains are hampering people’s ability to do their jobs. They’re not going out to the doctor and they’re not losing time from their jobs. There’s just a leakage of productivity — a silent leak,” says Fabrice Ruard, managing director of workspace designers Inspiration Office.
Inspiration Office recommends a chair that does everything a spine does: it changes shape to mimic the way your vertebras move, giving you support in all the right places.
In a recent study, workers who used a chair like this, the Steelcase Leap Chair, didn’t experience the aches and pains other workers reported. Nor did pain grow much throughout the day as it did for others. And they responded with real productivity gains of 18%. This shows that seating is not an issue you can afford to ignore.
When we talk about stress and ergonomics — it’s hard to tell which comes first, the chicken or the egg. On the one hand, stress can cause various physical ailments such as fatigue, muscle tension, and weight gain, which contribute to the tendency to slouch and use poor posture. On the other hand, bad ergonomics and posture can cause physical injuries and discomfort that then cause health-related stress and anxiety, tension headaches, backache and other ailments” says Cyril Harrisberg, CEO of The Stress Clinic.
He also says there are emotional effects of stress. “Moodiness, agitation, restlessness, the inability to relax all take their toll on your body, causing you to fidget and shuffle around to find a comfortable position — often placing yourself in poor postural alignments that you feel you need to change two minutes later. It can be a vicious circle.” When restless enough, careless shifting about can cause pulls, strains and other injury to the muscles.
Stress is a psychological and physiological response to events that upset our personal balance in some way. But the problem with the stress response is that the more it’s activated, the harder it is to shut off.
Chronic stress wears you down day after day and year after year, with no visible escape. Under sustained or severe stress, even the most well-adjusted person loses the ability to adapt. When stress overwhelms our coping resources, our bodies and minds suffer.
The stress caused by an aggressive boss or pressing deadline may need a more serious intervention, but the stress caused by a bad chair can be addressed by getting a better one, though at a price.
Mariana Kruger, sales executive at Inspiration Office, says good chairs must be adjustable to suit the sitter’s weight and height.
“The Steelcase Leap Chair, for example, adjusts to your body, weight and tasks — using height, depth, other adjustments. It gives the correct support for your lumbar and thoracic regions.” What’s more, 98% of the chair is made from recycled materials.
If people are uncomfortable, productivity will be negatively affected over the long term — people will start to suffer from migraines, shoulder tension and constriction of their breathing areas, she says. Your colon, lower back and the free flow of blood will also be affected.
Companies need to be more supportive of their staff, and not only in terms of emotional support in times of crisis, but providing supportive office furniture.
Companies that try to save money by buying cheap, badly designed chairs with no support will find themselves having to pay up for higher stress levels and falling productivity.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Bad Backs and The Benefits of Ergonomic Office Chairs
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Great News if You Need Chair Repairs!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Here's an article I found on Wikipedia about the history of the chair.
History of the chair
Main article: History of the chair
Early twentieth century chair made in eastern Australia, with strong heraldic embellishment
The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. "The chair" is still extensively used as the emblem of authority in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and Canada, and in public meetings. It was not, in fact, until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most of such examples are of ecclesiastical or seigneurial origin. Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity is derived almost entirely from monuments, sculpture and paintings. A few actual examples exist in the British Museum, in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo, and elsewhere.
In ancient Egypt chairs appear to have been of great richness and splendor[citation needed]. Fashioned of ebony and ivory, or of carved and gilded wood, they were covered with costly materials and supported upon representations of the legs of beasts or the figures of captives. The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries BCE, had a back but stood straight up, front and back. During Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), a higher seat first started to appear amongst the Chinese elite and their usage soon spread to all levels of society. By the 12th century seating on the floor was rare in China, unlike in other Asian countries where the custom continued, and the chair, or more commonly the stool, was used in the vast majority of houses throughout the country.
In Europe, it was owing in great measure to the Renaissance that the chair ceased to be a privilege of state, and became a standard item of furniture whoever could afford to buy it. Once the idea of privilege faded the chair speedily came into general use. We find almost at once that the chair began to change every few years to reflect the fashions of the hour.
The 20th century saw an increasing use of technology in chair construction with such things as all-metal folding chairs, metal-legged chairs, the Slumber Chair, moulded plastic chairs and ergonomic chairs. The recliner became a popular form, at least in part due to radio and television, and later a two-part. The modern movement of the 1960s produced new forms of chairs: the butterfly chair, bean bags, and the egg-shaped pod chair. Technological advances led to molded plywood and wood laminate chairs, as well as chairs made of leather or polymers. Mechanical technology incorporated into the chair enabled adjustable chairs, especially for office use. Motors embedded in the chair resulted in massage chairs.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Not Only Beautiful, But An Amazing Story Behind Every Antique
An architectural landmark of the Old City of Hyderabad, Purani Haveli was the residence of the Nizam (1869-1911). The bewitching Masrath Mahal in the U-shaped complex still has an aura of royalty about it.
Though several antiques have vanished or been clandestinely removed from here, the official quarters of the Nizam still boasts of interesting pieces of antique furniture.
Masrath Mahal, which has touches of 18th century European architecture, was home to Mir Mehboob Ali Khan most of his life. Now, a school run by the Mukarram Jah Trust for Education and Learning functions here. The drawing room has lost much of its sheen, but the furniture has been meticulously maintained.
The room is now used for the meetings of the Trust, according to Mir Kamaluddin Ali Khan, its secretary.
The gold-plated Nizam’s chair is flanked by two other antique chairs. The ‘dastaar-turra’ and a crescent-star embedded atop it are its distinguishing features. Other furniture
This room has a number of period sofas, a circular table and huge wooden cabinets. Interestingly, there is another gold-plated chair in Purani Haveli. This belongs to the seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, and is part of the impressive Silver Jubilee collection.
Masrath Mahal and its furniture have caught the interest of the tinsel world. B.R. Chopra’s blockbuster Nikah was shot here.
Other producers have chosen it for their film settings. As the name goes, Masrath Mahal never fails to delight.






