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Extra Wide Office Chairs are Now a Thing in America

By Rain Noe - February 24, 2020

in Furniture Design

For years now in America, our cars, houses and people have been getting bigger. I'll let others debate why this is happening and what it means; I'm purely interested to learn that furniture designers have had to design some additional options for contract furniture, as waiting rooms are no longer one-size-fits-all:

Photo and caption by F.O.Mr.Lahey: "My doctor's office had a special chair for XL patients."

I looked into it, and it's a thing. Wayfair has a separate section for Big & Tall Guest & Reception Chairs.

Image credit: Wayfair

National Business Furniture's offerings let you specifically select for 275-pound, 400-pound and 500-pound capacities.

Image credit: National Business Furniture

Office Chair USA features a 750-pound-capacity model.

Image credit: Office Chair USA

And there are connected models that mix it up:

Image credit: National Business Furniture

If only this was an option for airlines in Economy class!

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Harika Kasireddy

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Was looking for some chairs and loved some options here.

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Jason Blandford

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"If only this was an option for airlines in Economy class!" ~ exactly my thought as i read through this.

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