We test Herman Miller’s $1,499 gaming chair: All business—to a fault

Enlarge / The Herman Miller x Logitech Embody chair. (credit: Sam Machkovech)

Recently, our coverage of the work-from-home universe expanded to include "gaming" chairs. This is because, in spite of their branding, they're not much different from average office chairs-and in a year when remote work has become ever more commonplace, they're sometimes a competitively priced home-office option.

But what about the inverse idea of a traditional office-chair company launching a gaming chair? That's the idea behind Herman Miller's latest line of Logitech-branded chairs, which caught our eye when the company reached out with a loaner chair. Herman Miller's decades of $1,000-and-up chairs have never previously included a gaming-branded product, while Logitech, better known for peripherals like keyboards, mice, and headsets, has never produced its own chairs. We were curious what the mashup would produce.

The quick answer is simple enough: it's an existing Herman Miller chair model with a mild aesthetic tweak. And while it's as solid as you might expect from a $1,499 home office chair, its game-specific branding doesn't quite add up.

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