 Best chair for studying! |
| Review Date: April 22, 2007 |
| Reviewer: L. Mueller, |
I am a med student with minor lower back problems from years of hockey and rowing in college. I also have a back condition called spondylolisthesis. I bought this chair because of the amazing amount of strain it takes off of my back when I study (which is a lot of the time). I tried the rest of the herman miller chairs and the humanscale freedom and liberty chairs, and the mirra was clearly the most comfortable. I feel like it has all the features of the aeron with half the knobs. The mirra adjusts to you since the seat and the back are flexible. It has perfect lumbar support, and the chair just looks so sexy.
I do recline sometimes, and it is very comfortable while reclining. I would say that if you are mostly a recliner, it would be a good idea to check out the humanscale freedom with the headrest because it was great while reclining but not so great while just sitting up.
Get the mirra fully loaded so you can have the extra adjustable options not on the basic model. One review on here is wrong and claims that the only difference between the basic and loaded chairs is adjustable lumbar support; the loaded has adjustable arms, adjustable seat pan depth, tilt limiter, and adjustable lumbar support.
Some people complained about the building of the chair. I honestly cannot believe how whiney they are. You slide the back of the chair on and then use a 13mm socket to put in 2 bolts. That is all you have to do. If you screw them in at the proper torque they won't fall out, and if they do, take the 30 seconds to screw them in again. You really dont even need a torque wrench (I didn't use one)... just make sure you tighten the bolts but dont go nuts with cinching them down.
Finally, if you try out this chair and do not like it that much, the herman miller Equa 2 was really comfortable and worth a test run. Plus you can find used equa 2 chairs on ebay for ~$200-300 shipped. |
Comfort and style - one of the best office chairs around
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| Review Date: March 16, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Dom Miliano, Denville, NJ USA |
We built a new office for our help desk and had the luxury to test out several of the top office chairs in the world. My personal favorite was the Mirra. It scored well against the Aeron and was a bit more comfortable to my behind and back. The style is good - a clean take on a functional product. It has all of the adjustments and it was a bit less expensive than the Aeron. The funny thing is that I suggested that we test sit the Aeron but the vendor suggested the Mirra for budget reasons (I was pre-sold on the Aeron). After a week with the Aeron and a week with the Mirra, I voted for Mirra - a shock to me and the people around me. Alas, the majority chose the Aeron and I sit in one now (not too unhappily).
The Mirra is a great chair - but try it before you buy. |
absolutely wonderful, with one temporary wrinkle
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| Review Date: December 22, 2006 |
| Reviewer: flasksandbeakers, |
So, I love my Mirra. I have lower back problems and so this is the only chair in the house, as far as I am concerned. The lumbar support stays perfectly aligned even when you recline - amazing. And good looking too. I could go on and on. Its also a superior choice, in my opinion, to the Aeron chair - the Mirra was designed more recently (and so looks a little nicer) and while it is able to adjust in a variety of ways, it is simple to do all the adjusting (simpler than the Aeron, I tried them both.)
HOWEVER, bear in mind that if the chair does not come with assembly (depending on who you purchase it from) you will also need a torque wrench capable of 220-240 inch/lbs and a 13mm socket to put it together. This is especially frustrating because it is never mentioned, not on Herman Miller's site, not anywhere else. You need it only to attach the chair back to the chair base with two bolts, which we temporarily used a regular wrench for, but after spending around $800 for a chair, we did not want to mess around with assembling it "incorrectly". Now our new torque wrench has a bow and is hanging out with the other Christmas presents. And I am hanging out in my Mirra chair! |
Try it before you buy it
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| Review Date: February 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jeremy Guenther, |
I work 8-12 hrs a day from my home office and, until recently, have relied on a combination of sitting on a cheap ($80) task chair, 65cm exercise ball and have also created a "standing station" where I can stand while working. The variety in working positions was great, but the task chair and the exercise ball were quickly becoming weak points, creating a lot of fatigue and imbalances.
The exercise ball was great for freedom of movement, but I'm tall (6'3") and the sheer size of the ball required that I "straddle" it, which isn't comfortable for more than an hour or two.
Realizing I needed a high-end chair that could replace both my task chair and exercise ball, I began reading higher-end chair reviews and sought out a Herman Miller distributor. My goal was to sit in the Celle, Mirra and Aeron for at least 30 mins each.
I'm glad I sat in them for extended periods. With my long legs, I quickly realized that even the "C" size Aeron was not comfortable for me. Ironically, the Celle and the Mirra - which both have adjustable seat depths - were both evenly matched in overall comfort, and were a lot less expensive.
I chose the Mirra because I live in AZ and I liked the mesh-like seat on the Mirra, which will help dissipate heat during the summer months. If I didn't need the heat dissipation, I would have chosen the Celle.
I'm very pleased with my purchase - especially because I listened to the advice of other reviewers who strongly suggested to sit in the chairs long enough to get a real feel for it. That's my advice to you as well.
If you spend as much time in a chair as you do in bed, don't do what I originally did and simply purchase the cheapest chair you can find, just to save some money. The right chair is worth the cost.
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Extremely comfortable and highly adjustable
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| Review Date: May 20, 2007 |
| Reviewer: RMS, Bethesda, MD |
| This is an extremely comfortable chair and one of the few chairs I have ever used where the arms can be lowered far enough to not impede typing. I first sat on one at the desk in a Hilton Garden Inn room - - if Herman Miller is providing them free to the Hilton to drum up business, it is certainly working - - and when I got back home I ordered one. Note, however, that even though under the Amazon Product Description it says the chair comes "fully assembled" it does not. Not from the Backstore, anyway. Assembly is easy, however, and does not really require a torque wrench. Any monkey wrench will do. |
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