Bad Backs Store
Contact Us
Help
Just browsing? Click the product title links for detailed product information.
Ready to BUY NOW? Click BUY NOW! to go straight to the Shopping Cart checkout with your item. To easily purchase multiple items, click Add to Bag for each product then click the Shopping Cart (top of screen). You can update items any time.
Humanscale Liberty Mesh Task Chair
Product Images
)
)
)
)
Documents
Click here to download the Humanscale Liberty Mesh instruction manual(73KB)
Click here to download the Humanscale Liberty Mesh brochure(690KB)
Other products that may help
Shopping with Confidence!
We appreciate that you want to shop with confidence online. And so Bad Backs wishes to confirm the importance we place on your privacy, security, our returns policy and customer service support.
Should you choose to shop in-store, visit one of our stores in Melbourne, Sydney or Perth. Click here for our store locations.
The Designer
One of the century’s pre-eminent designers, Niels Diffrient has endeavoured throughout his career to emphasise the “human factors” of industrial design, using ingenuity and intuition to provide consumer products that meet their needs. His emphasis on meeting human needs was codified in the three volume Humanscale, an influential sourcebook for designers that examined the movements and dimensions of the human body.
His quest to create workplace environments fitted to the needs of their users; continues unabated with “Liberty,” a task chair that conforms to its user’s shape without an array of knobs and levers. Movement is essential for a healthy back. People are spending more time sitting than ever before.
Not surprisingly, this increase in sitting has been accompanied by a proportional increase in back problems. Our bodies were designed to move. In fact, movement, more than anything else, provides nourishment for the spine, keeps the joints lubricated and flexible, improves circulation and therefore keeps us comfortable. Conversely, when we don’t move, the elasticity of our spine and joints is reduced and our muscles become fatigued. The key to healthy and comfortable sitting is being able to move without restrictions.
In Stock!
Liberty, with Form-Sensing Mesh Technology, is unlike any mesh chair you’ve seen or experienced.
With its tri-panel construction, it has the body-fitting contours that single-panel stretch mesh chairs simply can’t achieve. And it offers perfect lumbar support for everyone, without external devices or manual adjustments.
Liberty’s mesh back is formed by combining three panels of non-stretch mesh in the same way a tailor combines multiple pieces of material to form a shirt. Its contours are custom-made to both fit and support the human body in unprecedented comfort.
“Dynamic in looks and performance.” — Buildings Magazine
Liberty Features Physical Characteristics
Cushions
- Non-stretch, tri-panel mesh back
- Moulded polyurethane foam seat cushion
- Duron arm pads
- Seat upholstered in black metropolis 100% wool fabric
Cushion Pan, Back Frame, Five-Arm Base
- Injection-moulded, structural, integral colour plastic
- Black base & black frame
External Frame
- Die-cast aluminum with fused plastic coating
- Nitrogen-charged gas cylinder for adjustable seat height
- Coil spring in the self-adjusting recline mechanism
- Torsion spring in the pivoting backrest
- Black frame only
Self-Adjusting Recline
- Intelligent counter-balance recline mechanism automatically provides the right amount of support through the full range of recline motion, regardless of user size and weight
- No tension springs to adjust
- No recline locks to set/release
- During recline, the angle between torso and legs opens up for better body function
- User maintains near-constant eye level during recline
Pivoting Backrest
- Extra motion of the backrest during recline automatically adjusts to the changing needs of the spine
- Provides additional lumbar support as needed
Form-Sensing Mesh
- Tri-panel, non-stretch mesh construction creates body-fitting contours and self-adjusting lumbar support for a customized fit
- No external lumbar devices to adjust, break or lose
- Low-abrasion mesh protects clothing
- Modular for easy replacement
- Black mesh colour only
Standard Cylinder
- Provides seat height range that accommodates 95% of the population
Body Fit
- Size adjustable to fit more than 95% of the population
- Form-sensing mesh provides perfect lumbar support—automatically
Specifications
- Seat Depth (from face of lumbar to front of seat) 42-48cm (16.5"–18.75")
- Seat Height (floor to compressed front centre of seat cushion) 41-53cm (16"–21")
- Seat Width 53cm (21")
- Backrest Height (from seat cushion to top of backrest) 57cm (22.5")
- Backrest Width 51cm (20")
- Armrest Height (from compressed seat cushion to top of armrest) 17-29cm (6.5 –11.5") adjustable arms
- Armrest Length 31cm (12.25")
- Distance between Armrests 48cm (19")
- Height : 100-110cm (38.5" – 43.5")
- Base Diameter 64 cm (25")
- Chair Width 67cm (26.5")
Weight
12.3kgs (27 lbs.)
Tilt & Recline
17° recline plus 7° backrest tilt
Reference Angle between Seat and Back
100° to 124°
Warranty Information
15 Years, 24/7
Warranty Sustainability
The Liberty Chair is a great example of Humanscale's environmental purpose.
- Made predominantly of aluminum, followed by steel and plastic
- Contains 54% recycled content (32% post-consumer, 22% pre-consumer)
- 93% recyclable
- Weighs only 27 lbs.
- Modular cushions for easy replacement
- Designed for easy disassembly
- Ships in 85% recycled packaging or blanket-wrapped when feasible
- Greenguard Certified
