Name: Rethinking the way we sit down
Uploaded: 2009-04-21T07:16:00Z
Duration: 17 min 6 s
Description: Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the human body.

Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the human body.

Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down

Rethinking the way we sit down

A childhood fascination with the romance of 1930s aviation steered a design legend towards reimagining the office chair.

Transitioning from fantasy airplane sketches to practical aeronautics, the journey emphasizes learning through curiosity and adaptation.

After decades of design, a pivot to furniture led to a chair that marries form with function, shaped by the body's needs, not the wind.