Product Description

Get the Steelcase Leap chair, direct from Steelcase. The Leap V2 is available in 12 colors, made to order, and shipped to your door free from Steelcase. In a year-long study, people who received Leap chairs and office ergonomics training achieved a 17.8% increase in productivity. Leap is GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified and has Silver Cradle to CradleTM Product Certification from MBDC.

Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Steelcase
• Model: LEAPV2
• Dimensions: 41.00" h x 27.00" w x 23.00" l, 45.00 pounds

Features

• Our #1 selling ergonomic chair
• Patented "live back" technology
• Amazing ergonomic comfort
• Refined, iconic design
• Adjustable arms, seat and back

Customer Reviews

an amazing chair with some serious drawbacks
The good:

1) The backrest does conform to the back in a way no other chair does, it is a remarkable feature that will do wonders for your back. It is, however, very difficult to find the correct setting. I played around with the settings for months before I felt I had the right one.

2) Adjustments are very easy to make, and you don't have to get up and bend over to make any of them. There are numerous adjustments available, and they are simple to figure out. One downside to this is that you will spend a lot of time looking for the right combo.

3) You can lean way back in the chair. The backrest will recline without any tilt in the seat base (which has no tilt option whatsoever). This can relieve the back in a way that few other chairs can. Most other chairs tilt in sync with the backrest, which does nothing to relieve back stress.

4) The armrests are the best of any chair I know of.

5) The lumbar support adjustment is unobtrusive, effective, simple to use, and does not give the chair that weird space-age appearance as in other well-known ergo chairs.

The bad:

1) This chair is HARD HARD HARD on the tush. It is like sitting on a park bench. I weigh 185. My wife is much lighter and doesn't mind it at all, but I cannot sit in it more than two hours per day. I have tried 8 different cushions for sale on the market, none help (if you bottom out, they make no difference). You cannot buy good cushy foam anywhere, don't even bother trying. You'll need so much that it renders the chair pointless.

2) The recline resistance tension works in a way such that the backrest will stick-and-hold in a position based on the amount of pressure you put on it while reclining. It can be adjusted to require more or less pressure to give way. The result is a jerky as opposed to a fluid motion. It takes much getting used to. But once I figured it out, I rather liked it. There is no locking-in-place of the recline position, yet there are five recline-limit-stops. The problem is that the backrest will always push you forward as you lean forward, no matter what setting. Again, this can be viewed as a good feature once you get used to it - it is just very different from most chairs.

Good Chair. Not great - especially considering the price
The chair is pretty good and very adjustable. However has a few annoying flaws - which is rather unfortunate given the price.

First the arms wiggle a lot. They move too much. This is one junk "feature" they can do without.

The fabric of the chair is not very breathable also. It does get a bit warm.

Most importantly the seat is never completely fixed. It moves a little forward or backward. That is supposed to be a feature when leaning backward. But in the seated position, it becomes extremely annoying when just a little movement causes the seat to slide a little bit forward or backward.

I tried to contact Steelcase about this. Never got a proper reply. They sent an email asking me to contact them .. But upon calling was redirected a few times and decided it was not worth the hassle. Probably customer service is not high on their agenda.

Overall this chair is ok. Not worth $800. Maybe $250 is more like it.

The Palm of God's Hand
I have tried a dozen chairs searching for one that would feel like sitting in the palm of God's hand. Properly adjusted, the Steelcase Leap chair come very close to my concept of perfection.

The Leap is a well-made chair that has all the adjustments needed to conform to my frame. In particular, the lumbar support and the variable tilt stiffness are perfect.

The Steelcase Leap chair is not the cheapest on the market but its engineering design, construction and materials offset the cost.