For several centuries, the design of office chairs has funnelled towards a single ideal: a chair so comfortable that workers might go eight hours barely needing to move. Thomas Jefferson was an early pioneer of this “do less to do more” philosophy when, in 1776, the future president inserted a spindle and rollers underneath his Windsor chair to create the world’s first swivel seat. In 1840, Charles Darwin fitted wheels to his armchair and used it to zip between specimen drawers.
幾個世紀以來,辦公椅的設計一直朝著一個單一的理想方向發展:一種非常舒適的椅子,可以讓員工在工作八小時后幾乎不需要移動。1776年,一位未來的總統在他的溫莎椅下插入了一個紡錘和滾輪,創造了世界上第一個旋轉座椅:托馬斯·杰斐遜(Thomas Jefferson)是這種“少做即是多做”哲學的先驅者。1840年,查爾斯·達爾文(Charles Darwin)在他的扶手椅上安裝了輪子,用它在標本抽屜之間滑動。