Gesture is the first chair designed to support our interactions with today's technologies.
Features
The New Sitting Experience
The New Sitting Experience
We didn’t start with a chair design; we started by looking at the unique movements and gestures of the body.
Range of Technology
Range of Technology
Greater Range of Technology
Gesture supports movement between devices and healthy postures when interacting with technology. The Gesture 360 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 on a tablet, helping to prevent “Text Neck™“.
Range of Postures
Range of Postures
Greater Range of Postures
The changing nature of work has affected our postures. As work has become more collaborative and mobile our postures have shifted.
Gesture supports the greatest range of postures in three ways: through the back, the seat and the arms. With 3D LiveBack, Gesture changes shape and mimics the natural motion of the spine contouring to the user, creating the deepest recline. Adaptive bolstering allows Gesture’s seat to contour to the size of any user providing customized comfort.
Range of Users
Range of Users
Greater Range of Users
We know that today’s workplace has to accommodate a wide range of users sizes. Most chairs are only designed to fit one person: the average.
Gesture solves for the broadest range of sizes. Whether large or small, Gesture promises personalized and custom comfort for all users in one simple solution, all while utilizing a minimal footprint.
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 to support a greater range of user sizes.
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:
- 5-inch range of height adjustment
- 4 inches 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.
Devices
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?
Users
Users
What We Learned
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?
Spaces
Spaces
What We Learned
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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The Steelcase Seating Difference
At Steelcase, we study how you work and how you feel. You inspire new seating solutions, each expressed with uncompromising quality, craftsmanship and sustainability.
Sustainability
Overview
Overview
Designing for Sustainability
We believe the only way to provide the best office furniture solutions is to ensure they’re the best products for the environment. That’s why every step of the way – through design, manufacturing, delivery and product lifecycle – we consider the impact of our work on people and on the environment and uncover opportunities to make things better.
Up to
recycled content by weight
Up to
recyclable by weight
Life Cycle
Life Cycle
Materials
Up to 85% recyclable by weight, depending on the options selected
Made of up to 25% recycled content
Production
Gesture manufacturing uses powder-coated paints, water-based adhesives and VOC-free manufacturing processes
Our suppliers use reusable parts containers to further reduce waste throughout the manufacturing process
Transport
To reduce packaging waste, the Gesture chair is blanket wrapped when possible (not boxed) for domestic shipment.
Use
Designed for a long product life. Back cushions, seat assembly, and arms can be added, changed, or replaced at any time.
LEED Contribution
LEED Contribution
Steelcase supports the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification system with products that can contribute to LEED Building Design + Construction (BD&C), LEED Interior Design + Construction (ID&C), or LEED Operations + Maintenance (O&M) certification criteria.
Since the USGBC and its certification partner, GBCI, evaluate each project individually, the role our products play in achieving LEED certification is unique to each project
Gesture LEED Contribution
- Recycled content
- Regional materials
- Rapidly renewable materials
- Low -Emitting materials
- Innovation in design
- Sustainable purchasing
Certifications
Certifications
Certifications can help you choose products that are environmentally sustainable and just right for your project. Gesture has achieved the following certifications:
ANSI/BIFMA level Certified
Level 2
Level 3
SCS Indoor Air Advantage Certified
Gold
Product Range
Gesture
Headrest
Stool
Wrapped Back
Shell Back
Stool – Shell Back
Stool – Wrapped Back
Specifications
Standard + Optional Features
Standard + Optional Features
Additional options
- Polished aluminum base
- Glides
- Adjustable lumbar
- Coat hanger
- Fixed arm
- Armless
Dimensions
Dimensions
Chair
| Overall depth | 21" to 23 5/8" |
| Width | 22 3/8" to 34 5/8" |
| Height | 39¼" to 44¼" |
| Seat Depth | 18¼" |
| Functional seat depth | 15¾" to 18½" |
| Seat width | 20" |
| Seat height from floor | 16" to 21" |
| Back width | 16¼" |
| Back height from seat | 24 1/16" |
| Back lumbar height | 9¼" |
| Lumbar flex zone | 4" |
| Width between arms | 10¼" to 22½" |
| Arm to floor | 23 3/8" to 32 11/16" |
| Arm height from seat | 7¼" to 11½" |
| Arm cap pivot range | 15º inward/outward |
| Seat pan angle | 1º |
| Angle between seat + back | 98º to 116º |
| Weight Capacity | 400 lb |
Stool
| Overall depth | 21" to 23 5/8" |
| Width | 22 3/8" to 34 5/8" |
| Height | 47 3/8" to 55 5/8" |
| Seat Depth | 18¼" |
| Functional seat depth | 15¾" to 18½" |
| Seat width | 20" |
| Seat height from floor | 24" to 32¼" |
| Back width | 16¼" |
| Back height from seat | 24 1/16" |
| Back lumbar height | 9¼" |
| Lumbar flex zone | 4" |
| Width between arms | 10¼" to 22½" |
| Arm to floor | 31¼" to 43 7/8" |
| Arm height from seat | 7¼" to 11½" |
| Arm cap pivot range | 15º inward/outward |
| Seat pan angle | 1º |
| Angle between seat + back | 98º to 116º |
| Weight capacity | 400 lb |
Global Availability
Global Availability
This product is available in the following regions:
- Asia Pacific
- Central America
- South America
- North America
- Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
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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
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