Dezeen Showroom: work and leisure combine in designer Niels Diffrient's eponymous lounge chair for furniture brand Humanscale. The Diffrient lounge chair invites relaxed, supported sitting with its ...

$15,000 is a lot to spend on a lounge chair – but Humanscale’s Diffrient Lounge is, well, different. Inspired by the work-from-home revolution, jump-started by the global COVID pandemic, the Diffrient ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Niels Diffrient’s Freedom chair. Launched by Humanscale, the Freedom chair revolutionized the seating industry as the first ever ...

“It’s my intent to make design a more consequential endeavor, not a decorative endeavor.” Thus spoke the industrial designer Niels Diffrient in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. Among ...

Humanscale is the first company to ever obtain full Living Product Challenge Certification offered by the International Living Future Institute, which they achieved for not only one, but two products.

*Fantastic. The guy is 81 years old. He's like a vast, spreading oak tree. He's such a titan of industrial design that I feel not one whiff of embarrassment in posting his product ads wholesale! NEW ...

Blame the Aeron. Ever since Herman Miller’s mesh-backed superseat became a design icon — and a sales smash — in the late ’90s, office-furniture companies have been vying to create the next “it” chair.

Designer of the Freedom and Liberty chairs redefined the act of sitting. Niels Diffrient, who passed away last Saturday at 84, is unanimously called the godfather of ergonomics. He championed function ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humanscale is thrilled to introduce the Smart Ocean chair, an inventive adaption of the legendary Diffrient Smart chair that incorporates almost 2 lbs. of recycled fishing ...

Diffrient was born in rural Mississippi in 1928 and grew up in Detroit. He attended Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University and then graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art where he ...