Cosm Chair

Instant Comfort, Everywhere

Studio 7.5
For Berlin-based Studio 7.5 , their latest chair design for Herman Miller is something of a sought-after goal: a design that sets an entirely new standard for instant, personalized comfort—and Cosm's new automatic harmonic tilt, in particular, is a goal they've been pursuing for years.

Tilt is to a chair what a transmission is to a car, and like a transmission, some chairs are manual, while others, like the Cosm, are automatic. Other chairs are self-adjusting models that determine how you sit by adjusting the tilt movement to your body.

Cosm's Auto Harmonic Tilt puts you first, providing balanced recline and personalized comfort, regardless of your posture. Studio 7.5 and Herman Miller invented an intricate, fine-tuned mechanism to perfect Auto-Adjust Tilt. By determining your constantly changing vertical force, the tilt gears move the fulcrum along the leaf springs to automatically adjust the chair tension.

One of the biggest challenges - or maybe the biggest opportunity - was figuring out how to attach the suspension to the frame in a way that blended in as seamlessly as possible. The answer was little "teeth" that allowed the suspension to be anchored to the chair's frame while still maintaining tension to distribute pressure evenly. The ingenious way Studio 7.5 attached the suspension to the frame is a prime example of what they call "industrial craftsmanship" and it became the guiding light of the design process.

Design is about solving fundamental human problems
Founded in 1923 (its predecessor, Star Furniture Company, was founded in 1905), Herman Miller bet its survival on contemporary furniture during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This gamble was a huge success, and in 1945 Herman Miller stopped producing traditional furniture and focused its business on contemporary furniture, which would later be called modern furniture. In 1960, the company began exploring the true needs of office workers and the needs of companies and organizations. They realized that office productivity was a major issue in business. The "Action Office" that was developed in this way became the standard for subsequent office systems.
Herman Miller considers innovation to be the result of research, not a goal. Innovation comes from research into customer needs, exploration of materials and processes, and design in response to social and economic innovation. Of course, designers add inspiration on top of that. Charles and Ray Eames' plywood chairs, Robert Propst's Action Office, Bill Stumpf's Ergon and Aeron chairs, and Ayse Birsel's Resolve system are all born from such interactions. What connected them to Herman Miller is the shared belief that "design exists to solve fundamental human problems." It is the passion to create new designs from research into the human body structure and the environment surrounding humans, rather than designing for the sake of design.
The quality control department repeats the industry standard 100,000 seat tests 1 million times. The unparalleled research and development department develops from the material, and the manufacturing department realizes the most advanced manufacturing process. In all of these, Herman Miller never forgets its idea of ​​creating new designs by researching the human body and the environment. Herman Miller's products are the inevitable form that was born from researching the problems related to the act of sitting. In order to save global resources and reduce the environmental burden, Herman Miller's products strive to improve the durability and reliability of its products, and the product warranty period for work chairs is 12 years. Another aspect of innovation, "taking risks," is equally important. Herman Miller strives to always maintain a willingness to take risks. As the company expands and the responsibility for capital increases, the pressure to minimize risk has also increased. However, Herman Miller continues to take risks to bring out new products that it is confident will be successful - and sometimes products with revolutionary qualities that will change the times.