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The Vision Chair

Elevated
Seating.

Open the Angle. Elevate

Explore the Vision Chair See how it works
The Vision X in Black Swan Edition, showing its contoured seat, adjustable headrest and exposed T-Mech™ mechanism from a front three-quarter angle

The ergonomic principle

Hips above knees.
An open angle.

Elevated Seating opens your hip angle to 115–125°. The Vision Chair supports you through its seat and backrest, with your feet on the floor.

Explore the support in 3D
OPEN BODY ANGLE 115 – 125° HIP HEIGHT KNEE HEIGHT

T-Mech™

Guides the seat’s knee-pivot movement, keeping support beneath your thighs while the backrest moves with you.

Contour Cradle™ + Anti-Slip Matrix™

A contoured seat supports your body, while the textured grip surface helps resist forward sliding as the seat tilts.

Moving backrest

Support that moves with you as you change position.

Hours at a desk deserve thoughtful design.

Your working position is part of your everyday environment. It deserves to be designed around you.

The workplace

64% of EU workplaces reported prolonged sitting as a risk factor in the 2024 ESENER survey.

Workplaces reporting a risk factor

EU-OSHA · ESENER 2024 — opens in a new tab

The global picture

Low back pain affected 619 million people worldwide in 2020.

Global estimate for 2020

World Health Organization — opens in a new tab

The cost of care

Average annual spending was approximately 721 US dollars per US adult chiropractic user, based on 2007–2016 data, expressed in 2016 US dollars.

2016 USD · rounded from $721.43

MEPS study · published 2025 — opens in a new tab

Try the principle.Right on your couch.

Explore an open hip angle with a firm cushion.

  1. Get comfortable.

    Choose a firm seat. Cross your legs if comfortable.

  2. Raise your hips.

    Place a cushion under your sitting bones, with hips above knees.

  3. Relax your shoulders.

    Look ahead and feel your posture straighten.

Back to Vision
OPEN BODY ANGLE 115 – 125° HIP HEIGHT KNEE HEIGHT

The support makes the difference

Open the hip angle by positioning the hips above the knees.

Vision X and the illustrated backless kneeling chair: support and adjustment comparison.
Support & adjustment
Vision X Black Swan Edition
Vision X
Backless kneeling chair with shin pads and a rocking frame
Kneeling chair
Body support Seat and backrest, feet on the floor. No knee or shin pads. Seat and shin pads, with pressure below the knees that can cause discomfort.
Backrest Lumbar support from a height- and depth-adjustable backrest Not fitted on this backless design
Headrest Height and depth adjustment Not fitted
Armrests 4D: height, width, depth and swivel Not fitted
Movement Full recline with backrest support Rocking runners
Base & mobility Smooth 5-caster base for easy rolling on any floor No casters on this rocking frame
Tension and lock Adjustable backrest resistance and upright backrest lock No tension or lock controls on this frame
Read the posture research ↗ — Opens in a new tab

Change positions
as your day changes.

Lean into a task. Settle into everyday sitting. Recline for a film.

Move between Elevated, Everyday and Reclined as work gives way to downtime.

Our Kickstarter backer’s
first try of the Vision Chair.

We met in England so he could try the chair for himself. Here are his first impressions.

His first impressions.Stefan · Kickstarter backer

On staying in place

“I’m not sliding backwards.”

He wondered whether the chair would roll backwards on the slippery floor. Then he tried it.

Before trying Vision

“When I first saw the renders, I was thinking, when you sit on the chair, the force is going to push it backwards, especially on the slippery surfaces.”

On knee pressure

“Do you feel any pressure on your knees?”

“Not at all.”

Pledged on Kickstarter

$ 561,555 pledged on Kickstarter, with 612 backers and 5,616% funded. View the Kickstarter campaign — opens in a new tab
Our team meeting Kickstarter backers around a Vision Chair in England
From Kickstarter
to meeting in person.Our team and backer · England

From the workshop

The thinking
behind Vision.

Explore the prototypes and the story behind the Vision Chair.

Discover Klaus’s story

Make Elevated Seating
work with your setup.

Your work surface needs to meet your elevated sitting height.

A desk riser.

A suitable desk riser with appropriate monitor adjustment can also work.

A height-adjustable desk.

We recommend a height-adjustable desk to meet your elevated sitting height.

Need help checking your setup?
Send us your height and desk dimensions.

Check my setup

Your Vision

Choose your model.

Explore Vision X and Vision Y in 3D. Make it yours.

Vision X in black, seen from behind with its high back, headrest and five-caster base

Vision X

High back. Adjustable headrest.

Configure in 3D
Vision Y in black, seen from behind with its mid-height back and five-caster base

Vision Y

Mid back. Compact silhouette.

Configure in 3D

The research
behind the angle.

Researchers have explored how seat slope, hip position and support influence seated posture.

Read the studies behind the principle, then explore the engineering that brings Vision’s approach to life.

Seat slope and hip position

A 50-person study measured how seat slope and hip flexion influence spinal angles.

Bridger et al. · 1989

Read the study

Posture and seat inclination

Researchers compared posture during one hour on horizontal and forward-inclined seats.

Bendix & Biering-Sørensen · 1983

Read the study

Support and acceptability

A comparison of knee-support and tiltable chairs examined posture and how each was experienced.

Bendix et al. · 1988

Read the study

These studies investigate other seating designs. They are not clinical trials of the Vision Chair.

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