There are office chairs. And then there are Herman Miller office chairs. In between the two lies a chasm of design excellence and engineering superiority that only a handful of products can cross. And at the far end of this spectrum sits Herman Miller’s latest release, the Cosm. For this review, to ensure that our viewpoint wouldn’t be terribly biased (for we were clearly in love), we invited designers Aleksandra Nastic of Woods Bagot, and Salwa Najafi from Gensler, to try it for themselves and give us their unfiltered opinion.
Ever since Salone Del Mobile 2018, where we first laid eyes on the Cosm, we were waiting to get our hands on it for a review. And we finally got our chance, so we invited Salwa Najafi from Gensler and Aleksandra Nastic from Woods Bagot to weigh in with us. We collected at the Herman Miller offices in Dubai Marina, all poised and ready for the big reveal and test. Carl Burkitt, Market Manager for UAE & Oman, walked us through the chair’s inspiration, development story and myriad features.
Designed by Berlin based Studio 7.5, Cosm is a first for Herman Miller in more ways than one. Besides being the brand’s first task chair with an automatic tilt, it also sports a suspension armrest, which we believe is an industry first. Leave it to the makers of America’s (and possibly the world’s?) best selling office chair to produce another marvel.