Humanscale’s New $15K Lounge Chair Is the Ultimate Home Office Workstation

A good office chair costs a pretty penny,

but how about $15,000? [gasps]

I'm gonna go sit on one. Let's check it out.

Good morning.

This is the Diffrient Lounge,

it's the latest chair from Humanscale,

and it doesn't really look like your average office chair,

and that's because, as the name implies,

it's a lounge chair, but it's designed to accompany work

like a modernization of the famous Herman Miller Eames.

The Eames is obviously an iconic design, right?

It's timeless, it's beautiful,

but it is not something that you can work from comfortably

for a long period of time.

It's meant to be something you can relax in

for a little while.

This feels great actually.

So technically, it starts at 8,995.

That doesn't get you the table

and it doesn't get you the ottoman.

Once you add that in, it goes up to 10,995,

and then it's this sort of fabric of choice right now,

the very, very soft alpaca,

together with the desk and the ottoman,

that ends up costing 14,995.

This is the last design

from famed designer Neils Diffrient,

and that means it also has some similar philosophies

of the very famous Freedom chair that Humanscale makes.

So in that vein, there is some adjustability here,

this little lever button here

that you can press up or down to change the position

of the headrest.

And it'll also automatically, at a certain point,

bring that headrest up if it detects you

going to a more upright sitting position

so that it doesn't feel awkward.

The chair itself has more than 300 different fabrics

and colors that you could choose from.

And then there's also the desk,

which you can get in different wood grains,

and this little thing slides all the way out.

So you can put it here as a nice little side table

for when you want a sip of coffee and watch TV, for example,

or you can slide it in when you get some work done.

Let's take a seat.

I don't think I've sat on something this expensive

in my life.

Do have to keep the hat away

because it kinda interferes with the headrest.

I think the most surprising thing

about sitting on this chair

is just how supportive it makes you feel

despite looking the way it does

because it just feels like a lounge chair, right?

But it kind of still feels like an ergonomic chair

in some ways of supporting my back,

and you can also customize the recline

and prop your legs up to be a little extra comfy.

And now I can start working.

It wouldn't be a modernized motorized chair

if there also weren't some USB-C ports, and there are two.

A nice little touch,

Humanscale says the power delivery system

is designed to be replaceable.

The power delivery module that we built into the chair,

if it needs to be upgraded in the future,

we'll be able to do that.

All of this does mean that you do need

to plug this chair in, and that's very unusual.