Herman Miller Setu – Simplicity Ergonomic Office Chair to Fit All People

Herman Miller Setu Chair Review

With simplicity Herman Miller Setu, users could enjoy comfortable seat and save time on fine tune the levers and micro adjustments of ergonomic office chair even they are first time sit on it. The manufacturer actually tags it as multipurpose seat means it could be placed at any working place such as meeting room and suit for all people with different body weight to use the same office chair at different time during the day.


The Herman Miller Setu sets new standards of simplicity, adaptability, comfort, and de-materialization for multipurpose seating. It contains embedded design intelligence with form and function working in harmony. At one glance, it is modern piece of office furniture with eye-catching feature which is the “kinematic spine” transitioning from the seat to the seat-back. In fact, this ergonomic office chair is created with key inventions that greatly improve on comfort and support: the Kinematic Spine™ and the Lyris™ seat suspension material.

The Kinematic Spine™ is a combination of two simple polypropylene materials that are precisely engineered to achieve instant comfort for almost all human body. This innovative feature bends and flexes to users every single movement. With no tilt mechanism and only height adjustment, the Herman Miller Setu chair components are minimized.


In addition, the spine works together with Setu’s Lyris seating suspension material. It is finely tuned elastomeric fabric provides superior suspension and conforms to users contours. This honesty in materials has long been the cornerstone of design at Herman Miller office chairs, and Setu firmly holds true to this principle.

Needless to say, the lumbar support is perfectly placed offering firm support without being overly insistent about it. The elastomeric mesh providing extremely comfortable seating experience and void of any “dead spots” where usually happen in a foam chair. Its armrests are rigid and barely flex. You may proceed to watch the video below to have a look how the kinematic spine works when users lean back and tilting the seat up slightly for users to retain good posture.

Herman Miller Setu Chair Overview and Highlight Features

The Herman Miller Setu chair is positioned as multipurpose chair which are used where people sit for shorter periods and frequently move, such as conference rooms, touchdown workstations, and collaborative spaces. This ergonomic chair also suitable to be placed at home offices where people may be sharing a working space with more than one person.

This ergonomic office chair took over five years to design by Studio 7.5, the team also designed Herman Miller Mirra chair. These designers notice that the technology has not only changed how people work but where people work. For most people, all the places they sit are temporary as they move throughout the day, spending an hour or two at a time in different places. So these designers recognized a need for a new kind of multipurpose chair which combining work-chair principles of motion and comfort with good looks, and a compelling price.

As a result, the designer team Studio 7.5 proudly introducing the Herman Miller Setu chair which is made for simplicity and ease of use. There are no complex or frustrating levers and micro adjustments required for this ergonomic office chair. Instead, it is designed to naturally fit all shapes and sizes with only one setting needed which is height adjustment.

This makes it ideal for places where many different people use the same chair. Everyone gets the full ergonomic benefit without adjustment. If you want a comfort chair even when you first time sit on it but do not want to adjust with ergonomic settings on a chair, then this Herman Miller office chair is a smart choice.

At the moment you sit down on this ergonomic office chair, a unique duo of flexible spines make the chair move with you.

Its Kinematic Spine has tilt-like kinematics in one continuous seat and back, rather than in a separate seat pan, back rest, and tilt. It will conform to user back and reclines with user. Because of living hinges in the spine, there is no tilt mechanism on the office chair, and the only adjustment is seat height, which is operated via a trigger-like switch. The lack of excess parts makes this Herman Miller office chair incredibly light. The basic model has few parts and weighs less than 20 pounds which equivalent to 9kg. It is lightweight especially compare to Herman Miller Embody or Aeron Chair.

In addition to the flexible frame is the metal support structure and base. Its Lyris seating suspension material has no rigid frame structure on the top and bottom edges of the ergonomic office chair, but is only suspended between the two Kinematic Spines. While providing aeration and minimizing heat build-up, the flexible quasi-fabric material conforms to users contours every time they move.

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On top of the proper ergonomic design by trained engineers and high quality construction for users to have back support comfort, the Herman Miller Setu chair satisfies in that other important area: aesthetics. This luxury ergonomic office chair is designed to come in several colors and with various fabric materials over it. Better still, it also make sense for consumers who looking to furnish their home office on a specific budget.

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They are equally stylish and comfortable in office or home and can be the feature of any room or simply be noticeably unnoticeable. They work exactly as designed allow users easy reclining and comfortable sitting. Overall, the Herman Miller Setu ergonomic office chair appeals to your functional needs as well as your design aesthetic.