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In a survey to some 100 interior designers, an overwhelming number of votes were tallied to the Eames office suite, with respondents naming the Aluminum Group chair or the Soft Pad chair its “cushioned cousin,” as manufacturer Herman Miller refers to it as their favorite desk chairs.
“There are very few desk chairs that are comfortable and good-looking,” says Frances Merrill of Reath Design, who cast her vote for the lightly padded Aluminum Group seating. The chair’s stylistic versatility must also be counted among its superpowers, insists Johanknecht, who has the Soft Pad iteration in his Los Angeles home office. “The chair is a design icon so classic that [it] mixes really well with other furnishings.”