Humanscale Diffrient World Chair – Standard Configuration

The much-loved Humanscale Diffrient World Chair is now available with a “quick ship” option, giving you an ergonomic seating solution when you need it.

This chair comes in your choice of fabric and mesh combinations, a black frame, supremely-adjustable Duron arms, and a standard cylinder and casters to get you to that working sweet spot quicker. The Diffrient World Chair delivers supreme ergonomics in a sleek package that boasts some of the utmost in comfort-inducing features on the market today, making this a real solution to subpar seating in offices everywhere.

The Design Story

Tailors take a three dimensional approach when designing men’s suits, and that inspired Niels Diffrient to apply that same methodology. The result is the World chair, a minimal mesh task chair with a back that automatically conforms to the user. He collaborated with textile designer Elizabeth Whelan, to design a flexible but strong non-stretch mesh, so the chair’s backrest takes on the shape of the sitter. The result is the Diffrient World chair, a task chair that is simple but beautiful, and supports the user instantly.

“If every chair was made the way the World Chair was, we would cut in half all the material used for task chairs.”

Niels Diffrient, Designer