What you sit on during your working day is important. I've spent a few years now using and reviewing the best office chairs for back pain, and honestly it's changed my life for the better. Like so many others, I made do with whatever chair was closest to hand during the working-from-home boom, and my back suffered the consequences. But everyone knows office chairs are boring and ugly, and the really good ergonomic ones look like an engineering graduate's experiment and cost the earth, right?
Well, by and large, yes. The number of horrible-looking chairs made of hard plastic, metal and over-engineered back support is myriad. I've reviewed many of them. And the pretty ones – the ones that make it into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – they generally cost a thousand dollars. Now, who the hell has a grand to spend on a chair?!
