Six stations.
One seat.
A SEATLAB chair passes through six pairs of hands. No station opens work the station before it has not signed off. The chair is the only thing that moves down the floor — the tolerances stay in one place.
Frame
Kiln-dried hardwood and steel, jointed, glued and screwed. Squared on a jig before anything soft is allowed near it.
Motion
The recline mechanism is fitted and cycled bare, so the geometry is proven at a stage where it can still be corrected.
Body
Graded foam, layered — firm through the lumbar, softening toward the shoulder blade and the back of the knee.
Skin
Hides are read for grain and stretch, then cut so the natural give of the leather runs with the direction the seat travels.
Seam
Panels are sewn to a tension, not to a clock. Stitch pitch is held constant across the whole chair — including where nobody looks.
Signature
Final fit, full cycle test, inspection under raking light. Then the chair is signed, wrapped, and it leaves.
Comfort is an engineering result.
Sightline, seat pitch and recline arc are settled at drawing stage, with the room's riser heights and screen dimensions in hand. A chair that is beautiful in the showroom and wrong in the room is simply a chair that was specified late.
Where a figure can be measured, we hold it. Where it can only be felt, we sit in it — for the length of a feature, more than once, before it is signed off.
