It's a work chair like no other. Only Celle (pronounced sell-a) has Cellular Suspension, a patented system of cells and loops that flexes in concert with the body's movements for day-long comfort. Celle's suspension, along with its naturally balanced tilt and easy adjustability, gives ergonomic support for nearly all sizes and shapes worldwide. It's right for any work setting, and Celle's clean look blends with interiors and architecture. And Celle is 99 percent recyclable.
A Work Chair Solution
High-performance, long-term seating with a full complement of adjustments and innovative suspension; for computer work, general office work, and casual or formal meetings.
Smart Innovation
Cellular Suspension. A pliable polymer is molded into cells and loops that provide varying amounts of flex throughout the seat and back.
Responsive support. The cells flex and move with the sitter, naturally conforming to shape and movement and properly distributing weight.
Aerated comfort. Cellular Suspension lets air pass through so skin temperature stays constant.
Superior Ergonomics
Smooth ride. Celle's Harmonic tilt lets people move naturally and stay balanced.
Highly adjustable. Celle has a full complement of adjustments that are easy to locate and use.
Inclusive fit. Celle's one chair size fits the 5th percentile female to the 95th percentile male, or 95 percent of the North American population.
Meets requirements. Conforms to domestic and global codes and standards.
Wide Application
Versatile performance. Celle's variety of looks, straightforward design, and attractive price let it work in a range of environments.
Facility-wide. Celle is an appropriate choice for offices, conference areas, and team and community spaces.
International. Celle performs equally well in business, healthcare, and learning environments worldwide.
Environmental Design
Demanding standards. Celle was developed using Herman Miller's strict cradle-to-cradle protocol.
99 percent recyclable. Celle can be disassembled in less than five minutes for efficient recycling; recycled content is 33 percent.
Strong and durable. Celle has a long life, and parts can be replaced in the field.
Inviting aesthetic
Distinctive look. The Cellular Suspension differentiates Celle from all other work chairs.
Quiet presence. Celle blends with interiors, other furnishings, and architecture.
Jerome Caruso
At 12 years old, Jerome Caruso discovered his career when a friend of his father introduced him to industrial design--and he heard about a General Motors contest for futuristic car concepts. "I worked in the basement every day after school for months," Caruso remembers, "developing a clay model for the car, transferring the design to a block of wood, and carving it out by hand. That was when I realized what I wanted to do--especially after winning an award."
Caruso refined his design sensibilities in Europe in the 1960s. While a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen, he also worked at that city's premier design office. "There was a sensitive approach to European design that made an indelible impression on me," he recalls.
Deciding to go it alone, he lined up projects in Scandinavia; at age 26 he opened a practice in Brussels with clients in Belgium, England, France, and Germany. Later he returned to the U.S. and again established a one-man studio. His diverse projects ranged from spearheading Motorola's entry into the manufacture of LCD watch modules to designing and engineering the first completely machine-produced stack chair for the U.S. contract market (now in the American Arts collection at the Chicago Art Institute).
Caruso is most noted as Sub-Zero's first and only designer for more than 20 years, responsible for their entire line of sophisticated refrigeration icons and industry-leading firsts, including winestorage units. He invented Sub-Zero's revolutionary drawer-and-cabinet system, named one of the 10 best products of '95 by Time magazine. For the 2002 debut of Wolf, Sub-Zero?s corporate companion, he designed 25 new cooking appliances within 18 months.
With more than 75 design patents to his credit, Caruso takes a hands-on approach and enjoys doing it all--concepts, drawings, prototypes, and engineering. "The bigger the challenge, the more fun it is to work out the solution," he says. He's especially intrigued with chairs and vividly recalls the challenge of Herman Miller's high-performance, award-winning Reaction chair, which he designed with his son, Steven.
But Herman Miller's Celle chair, he smiles, was the "Mt. Everest of fun. At the beginning, I imagined a highly engineered, "intelligent" surface that could be the ultimate in seating comfort. I envisioned hundreds of tiny "cells"--each one consisting of a pad with spring-like loops that would both support and respond to different anatomical areas." And after years of development and experimentation, the Celle chair closely follows that original concept.
Today, from his spacious, sky-lit studio in Lake Forest, Illinois, Caruso continues to enjoy the design process as much as he did when he first discovered it as a boy. "My goal has always been to bring function and art together in products that perform superbly and look great," he says.
