Objects, Part 2: Omar Filippelli

These are the main chairs in my life. They tell a clear story about me.

This is my work chair:

It seats within the confines of my cubicle space. It has all the latest ergonomics aspects necessary to make my back feel relaxed and in posture. I can move it up or down with one lever on the right side of the chair. Another lever allows me to increase/decrease the tension of the back support with a simple axel rotation which I use and change several times during the week according to how my back feels. It is a light chair and the mesh material permits the constant dry feel with great body aeration. It provides me with a pleasant experience without making me go to sleep. I guess in a way it provides the right tension for me to be active and get up and down as many times as I need without hurting and/or promoting bad body postures. I don’t like the color, but I became accustomed to the latest technologies and design applied on this product and I will recommend to any business trying to provide a healthier experience to their employees. We spend many hours of our days seating, so having good technology support your body posture is imperative.

This is my recliner chair:

This is where I spend my leisure time, my place of Zen. This is where I relax and watch something on TV, read a book, article, or lecture. It makes me feel comfortable and cozy. It soothes me before I go to sleep is almost like a big panda bear that hugs me every night. Yea don’t get any weird ideas Jesse, is just a comfortable chair for me ?

One thing though is that during the summer it can feel a bet warm to the body. Other than that it’s great!

This is my cello chair:

Here is where I come when I need to escape to the world of music. Another place of Zen for me. This chair doesn’t have any adjustments or ergonomics but is the only chair in the house that allows me to be seating at the right Hight and leaning forward enough to embrace the cello correctly. All other chairs that can help me regulate the Hight and leaning angle have harms and prevent me from fitting the cello comfortably in order to play freely. It allows me to have the right body posture to play music without having to adjust while playing. Its interesting to me that depending on the application and specific use of the chair what the ergonomics require can be so different and opposite. I hacked into the ergonomics of this chair by adding a pillow to complement the comfortable leaning forward and prevent the metallic back from destroying my shirts as it has made a mess of new t-shirts that got tangle up in the metal imperfections causing small rips and deformations.

This is my study room chair:

Here is where I do my homework. Also, study, read, and take a lecture. This chair is very comfortable. It has the right amount of ergonomic levers to make any kind of adjustment. Is almost as good as the one I have in the office but less quality and ergonomics. One drawback ha to do with the leather, it doesn’t let the body breath as the mesh texture my work chair has. During long periods of work at home or study I get uncomfortable and humidity tends to accumulate where the body touches the leather. It is cool most of the time. It doesn’t get warm like the recliner, but is the only chair in the house that will make me break a sweat.

I love this beautiful leather seat!

It has taken me everywhere for the last 10 years. 150,000 miles of comfortable, ergonomics, and luxury, with a perfect fitting for my body and weight. It withstood the trial of time and friction. Visible is the only scar produced by frictions with my pants as I have entered and exit my car more than 20,000 times (my quick math showed). Aways delivering the same consistent luxurious feel and experience. It has the capacity to get warmed up for the cold winter nights with a fully electric set of controls that smoothly bring the seat up and forward as desired by the user. It also has a small lever that either fills or retracts a small section of the lower back providing more or less support for that area of the back, which happens to be one of my sources of stress and pain when I drive for long periods of time, so I really enjoy that little feature. Plus the only head support that truly does something positive for my neck and head.