Aeron

Herman Miller’s 2026 Aeron — the first full redesign of Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick’s 1994 task chair, announced on 2 June 2026 at $2,285 — closes a 30-year run of nine million units sold and reopens the ergonomic office chair lineage that Knoll, Vitra and Steelcase have been ranged against since the Eameses’ 1958 Aluminum Group. The new Aeron lands at Fulton Market Design Days in Chicago, 8–10 June 2026, and is the clearest reset of the category since the original Aeron entered the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection in 1994, before it had even reached retail floors. Read backwards from that date, the lineage gathers four manufacturers — Herman Miller (founded 1905 in Zeeland, Michigan as Star Furniture Co.), Knoll, Vitra and Steelcase (founded 1912 in Grand Rapids) — and roughly a dozen designers who fixed what a seated body could expect from an office. ...