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A high-back desk chair sized around the four measurements that decide whether you can actually sit in it all day: lumbar depth, seat height, seat depth and airflow.
4.39 ratings
£22.89£32.19
Delivery 6-9 business days. Returns handled under our refunds policy.
The chair
Most desk chairs under a certain price are the same chair in a different colour: a fixed plastic lump where the lumbar support should be, a foam pad that goes flat by the spring, and a back that turns into a radiator by mid-afternoon. This one is put together differently, and the differences are the kind you can measure. The lumbar support moves.
It is a mechanism with a dial, not a moulded bump, so you set its depth to the curve of your own back rather than sitting against the average of everyone else's. The backrest above it is high-tension mesh across a 20.1 inch frame, 27.5 inches tall, so air moves through the part of the chair your shirt is pressed against. The headrest at the top pivots, which matters on the two recline positions the back settles into when you push away from the desk to read something.
The seat is high-resilience moulded foam rather than budget foam, 19.7 inches across and 17.3 inches deep — deep enough to carry your thighs, short enough to leave a gap behind the knee. It rises and falls between 17.7 and 21.7 inches, which puts feet flat on the floor for most people between roughly 5 feet 4 and 6 feet 2. Underneath, the base is reinforced nylon with a metal core, rated to 330 pounds, on casters that glide rather than catch.
The armrests flip up through 90 degrees. That sounds like a small thing until you have a desk with a low lip, or a chair you would like to push all the way under it at the end of the day. The whole thing arrives flat and goes together in about 15 minutes with no extra tools, and it wipes clean with a damp cloth.
What you get for the money
A dial on the side of the backrest moves the lumbar pad in and out, so you can set how far it pushes into your lower back and leave it there. A fixed lumbar shape only fits the people it was moulded for; an adjustable one fits you, and it holds its setting when you get up and sit back down.
The backrest is high-tension mesh across a 20.1 inch frame — the part of a chair that gets warm, and the part that peels first when it is faced in imitation leather. The seat is where you want padding instead: high-resilience moulded foam, 17.3 inches deep, which recovers its shape overnight rather than compressing into a dish.
Seat height runs 17.7 to 21.7 inches, the seat is 19.7 inches wide and 17.3 inches deep, and the backrest stands 27.5 inches. Those numbers are the difference between a chair that suits you and one you spend a year adjusting around. The base carries a maximum recommended weight of 330 pounds and rolls on glide casters, recommended for hard floors.
The chair arrives in parts with a printed manual and needs nothing from your toolbox. Assembly takes about 15 minutes: base, cylinder, seat, back, headrest. Wipe the mesh and the seat clean with a damp cloth; there is no coating to strip and nothing to re-tension.
Every figure below comes off the product specification.
4.3out of 5
9 ratings
The written reviews below are sample reviews prepared for this listing.
I have owned three chairs in this bracket and every one had a lump of plastic where the lumbar support was meant to be. This one has an actual dial, and once I wound it out to where my back curves, the difference over an eight-hour day was obvious. Mesh back stays cool in a south-facing room, which the last one absolutely did not.
Marianne H. · Black · 6 December 2025
It is firmer than the sagging thing it replaced and I was unsure for the first week. A month on I would not go back — it has not developed a dip and I am not shifting around by the afternoon. Rolls quietly on a wooden floor. The only thing I would change is that the headrest is a bit narrow for how wide the back is.
Owen R. · Black · 5 February 2026
No complaints about the build — the base feels solid and the mesh is properly tensioned. But I am five foot three and the 17.3 inch seat depth is a little long for me; I sit with a cushion behind my lower back to bring it forward. If you are on the shorter side, measure first. The headrest also took me a few goes to get at the right angle.
Claire T. · Black · 9 May 2026
Flat box, clear manual, no tools needed beyond what was in it, and I had it standing in about a quarter of an hour. I am six foot one and the seat goes high enough that my feet sit flat with the desk at the right height. The armrests flipping up means it finally pushes right under the desk.
Dev P. · Black · 27 February 2026
The seat height adjusts from 17.7 to 21.7 inches, which suits most people from roughly 5 feet 4 to 6 feet 2 with feet flat on the floor. Below that range you may want a footrest; the seat depth of 17.3 inches is the measurement to check if you are shorter.
The maximum recommended weight is 330 pounds. The base is reinforced nylon with a metal core rather than plain moulded plastic, which is where cheaper chairs fail first, around the cylinder hub.
Yes. A dial on the side of the backrest moves the lumbar pad in and out so you can set its depth against your own back, and it stays where you set it. It is not a fixed moulded shape with a name attached to it.
The casters are the glide type and the recommended surface is hard flooring. They roll quietly on wood, tile and laminate. On deep pile carpet you will get more resistance, as with any castered chair.
It ships flat with a printed manual and needs no extra tools. Assembly takes about 15 minutes: base, gas cylinder, seat, backrest, then the headrest.
Wipe it clean. A damp cloth is enough for both the mesh back and the foam seat, and the base has a powder-coated finish that does not need anything special.
The chair ships flat-packed to your door. Every order is tracked from dispatch, and the delivery window shown at checkout is the one we work to. If it is not right for the room, our returns policy sets out how to send it back and how the refund is handled.
Estimated delivery: 6-9 business days
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