The Keyn Chair Group is a range of meeting chairs that offers responsive movement and immediate comfort for collaborative spaces.

Without a comfortable chair, especially in meetings, people lose attention, become fatigued and disengage. To address this problem, Herman Miller worked with forpeople, a London-based design firm, to create the Keyn Chair Group. The design took shape based on analysing people’s movements when sitting for extended periods of time in meeting and collaborative spaces.



The idea that a chair needed to move was decided early in the design process. Observations of meetings showed that people continuously shift in their seats, leaning forward or stretching back, typically up to 53 times an hour. People expect movement in their task chair, so it made perfect sense that a meeting chair should support and respond to those movements too.



The answer to supporting seated movement came in the form of CradleFlex. It responds to the sitter, effortlessly reclining up to 10 degrees whilst simultaneously allowing the seat to move forward. By supporting changes in posture, Keyn helps people remain comfortable and therefore focused, which is good for their bodies and their minds.

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