Gesture is the first chair designed to support our interactions with today's technologies.
Features
The New Sitting Experience
The New Sitting Experience
Gesture Recognition for the Body
Technology is the single greatest force driving the changes in the way we work, live and behave.
The new, multiple devices we deploy throughout our work day allow us to flow between tasks, fluidly, and frequently.
Gesture is the first office chair designed to support our interactions with today’s technologies.
Inspired by the human body. Created for the way we work today.
Inspired By the Human Body
Inspired By the Human Body
A New Sitting Experience
To design a new sitting experience, we stopped looking at chairs and started looking at people.
Understanding posture at work and how the body naturally moves caused us to ask, “could a chair act as a system, just like human body?”
This question caused us to fundamentally rethink how to design a chair. When we studied the full range of postures at work, we studied three key interfaces between the human body and their chair.
– THE CORE INTERFACE
– THE LIMB INTERFACE
– THE SEAT INTERFACE
Interfaces
Interfaces
Open image tooltip LIMB INTERFACE
The Gesture arm moves like the human arm, which allows users to be supported in any position.
Arms and shoulder remain supported when texting on a smartphone, typing on a keyboard or swiping a tablet.
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CORE INTERFACE
The Gesture office chair back and seat move as a synchronized system, moving with each user to provide continuous and persistent support.
The back cradles the user no matter the posture or device being used.
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SEAT INTERFACE
The Gesture seat brings comfort all the way to the edges. It is flexible at the perimeter to allow users to sit in a range of postures without obstruction.
Seat Adjustments
Seat Adjustments
Gesture chair – Adjustability
Gesture adapts cleverly to your natural movements and has simple controls that are easy to find, understand and use.
Headrest
Headrest
Until now, headrests have largely been an afterthought, but the Gesture headrest is integrated into the design. The design of the Gesture headrest takes into consideration features such as factors head size, neck length and desired range of motion into consideration.
Through this intentional design, the Gesture headrest not only provides comfort and support, but also offers an unprecedented range of motion. This results in more choice and control over work postures.
Gesture headrest range of motion:
- 15 cm range of height adjustment
- 10 cm of forward and backward pivot movement
- 90° of rotation
Insights
Global Posture Study
Global Posture Study
To best understand the body at work, we undertook a global posture study on six continents, observing over 2,000 people in a wide range of postures.
We discovered that new technologies combined with new behaviors led to nine new postures that are not adequately addressed by current seating solutions.
Range of Devices
Range of Devices
What We Learned
While technology boosts productivity, it can cause pain that disrupts our work, our ability to concentrate, and our creativity.
How might we design an office chair as advanced as today’s technology? A chair that augments our technology?
Range of Users
Range of Users
From body size and shape to gender and generation, each play a role in the sitting preference of each individual.
How might we support all users yet meet the postural preferences that exist within the workplace?
Range of Spaces
Range of Spaces
Range of spaces
We see work being done in a greater range of spaces within the office. We’re spending equal amounts of time at our desk as we are in collaborative spaces. We’re sharing desks, where one day a larger person might be using a chair and the next day a much smaller person.
How might we solve for multiple users sitting in multiple spaces throughout a day?
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Designing for Sustainability
We create products that are good for people, and good for the world. Our products and operations are designed around a commitment to reduce climate change, reinforced by sustainable practices across our value chain.
Our Sustainable Design framework ensures our products are designed with consideration of life cycle thinking and cradle-to-cradle principles:
- Source materials responsibly
- Minimize global warming and other life cycle impacts
- Ensure material health
- Enable end-of-use strategies
Product Range
Gesture Chair with Headrest
Gesture chair with Back Shell
Gesture chair with Wrapped Back
Gesture Draughtsman Chair with Shell or Wrapped Back
Gesture with Coat Hanger
Specifications
Options
Options
Main options
1) The Core Interface.
- The Gesture back and seat move as a synchronized system moving with each user to provide continuous and persistent support.
- The back cradles the user no matter the posture or device.
2) The Limb Interface:
- The Gesture arm moves like the human arm, which allows users to be supported in any position.
- Arms and shoulders remain supported when texting on a smartphone, typing on a keyboard or swiping a tablet.
3) The Seat Interface:
- The Gesture seat brings comfort all the way to the edges.
- It is flexible at the perimeter to allow users to sit in a range of postures without obstruction.
4) THE USER INTERFACE
- Gesture takes into account various body types and sitting preferences, quickly adjustable to meet the needs of each individual user.
- Users can adjust the Gesture chair as easily as adjusting their posture.
Global Availability
Global Availability
This product is available in the following regions:
- Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Central America
- Europe
- Middle East
- North America
- South America
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Awards
Awards
2013
North America – Spark Awards (Spark! Winner)
North America – Good Design Award
North America – Best of NeoCon (Gold Award)
North America – Product Innovation Awards
North America – Product Innovations Awards (Grand Prize)
North America – Best of Year Awards (Best of Year Honoree)
2014
North America – Core 77
North America – HiP Award
Australia – Good Design Award
Germany – Red Dot Award
France – Préventica Innovation Award
United Kingdom – FX Award
Open image tooltipWork from Home
While teams are working from home, we’re working to keep them comfortable. You can lean on Steelcase as your one trusted point of contact for products that blend performance with design.
Due to local regulations, select products are available in the UK.