Active Office Chair by Yun Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2025
Active Office Chair
by Yun Li
Client: Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.,
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Active Office Chair
Active is an office chair designed to reduce sedentary work. The chair has two round cushions. The low cushion sets a seat height slightly above conventional chairs, which helps the user keep an upright sitting position. The high cushion is set at bar height, so the same chair supports working while standing. A footrest allows the legs to relax during standing work. The armrests support simple stretches and help the user rise after long periods. The frame is made of bent hollow iron tubes with fabric and foam, and the chairs can be stacked to save space.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Active Office Chair is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Active Office Chair is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Active Office Chair splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Active is a sedentary prevention chair with two cushions, high and low, that allows the user to work either sitting or standing.At the same time, the cushions and armrests allow for simple exercises and stretches to ease the discomfort of sitting for long periods of time.Its unique bending angle allows the chairs to be stacked together in an office environment, saving space.Multi-coloured options to add a splash of colour in the office environment.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Product Dimensions:Width 540 mm x Depth 400 mm x Height 780 mm
- Tags
- Office chair, Multifunctional, Light exercise, Prevention of occupational diseases, Health, Removable, Stackable
- Production Technology
- The main materials for the seat are hollow iron tubes, fabric and foam.The iron pipe is formed by bending and users only need 8 screws for installation.
- Design Challenge
- Balancing the ergonomics of the seat with the user's habits in an office setting was one of the challenges of the concept.The sitting height is currently set higher than conventional seats to ensure that the user can maintain a relatively upright sitting position.
- Research
- Occupational diseases caused by sedentary behaviour are a common health problem that is widely studied and discussed.The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state,that prolonged sedentary behaviour is associated with a wide range of health problems, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.Promote the reduction of sedentary time through increased activity time, simple activities, and standing offices to prevent occupational diseases caused by sedentary behaviour.
- Inspiration
- In the workplace, sedentary behaviour has become the norm, bringing about a series of occupational diseases as a result of maintaining the same posture for long periods of time.How to avoid being sedentary became the subject of our research.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Shenzhen in March 2024 and completed in Shenzhen in August 2024.
- Operation Flow
- The seat has two round cushions.With a low cushion for seat height, users can work in a healthy sitting position.The seat is equipped with armrests, allowing for simple movements and assistance in getting up when sitting for long periods of time.The high cushion is barstool height, allowing users to work in a standing position.A footrest is set on the bottom of the seat, so you can relax your legs when standing up to work.The switching of movements allows the sedentary body to move in order to reduce sedentary time.
- Patents
- China Patent Application Number：202430611547X
- Team Members
- Designer: Yun Li
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