Leap Drafting Chair
by Steelcase
Steelcase® Leap® Drafting Chair
The Leap Drafting Chair by Steelcase features a unique Live Back™ and Natural Glide System™. It has the same wealth of personal adjustments as the fully featured model, plus a tall, stable central cylinder and height-adjustable foot ring.
The spines of two people who are the same in every respect — height, weight, age, gender — will nonetheless move differently when they sit.
The Leap chair contours to your spine and not the other way around. Its Live Back™ changes shape to mimic your unique spinal motion, your spineprint, no matter how it changes in the course of a day, a week, or a year. So your spine always gets the support it needs.How do you design one chair that supports an infinite variety of spines whose needs for support are forever changing? By designing a chair whose back is as alive as your own.
When you recline in a chair, your upper and lower back want to move in opposite directions. Your upper back wants to move backward. Your lower back wants to arch forward. Satisfy the needs of one but not the other and you've got one unhappy spine.
Thanks to its Live Back™, Leap's upper and lower backrests function independently, just like your back does, so no matter how you sit, your back doesn't have to lose contact with the chair. It provides support (for stability) and unrestricted movement (to reduce stress on the spine) at the same time. And Leap provides separate upper and lower back controls.The lower back control allows you to provide the right amount of constant force to ensure the proper lumbar curve, which reduces unhealthy slouching. The upper back control allows you to provide increasing amounts of force as you recline for total support, giving each person, regardless of size, the right amount of “push back.”
Dimensions: Steelcase® Leap® Drafting Chair
Steelcase History
In 1975, Steelcase began their introduction of advanced ergonomic office chairs that address and adapt to the body’s movements with the Sensor® chair. The Leap® chair (1999), which addressed the correlation between back pain and worker productivity came next, followed by the Think™ chair (2004), an intuitive, mid-priced and environmentally sustainable product. Still newer ergonomic task chairs include Amia® and Cobi®, both offering the comfort and support of higher-priced chairs.
Today, Steelcase, Inc. supplies thousands of products worldwide, including metal and wood office furniture, systems furniture, seating, computer support furniture, desks, tables, credenzas, filing cabinets, and office lighting. Their rich history actually began with the introduction of steel furnishings to building interiors at the turn of the century.
At the turn of the 20th century, steel construction was making building exteriors less flammable, but office interiors were still crowded with wooden furniture, and still heated and lighted by open flame appliances. Smoking presented another fire hazard because ashes were often dumped in wicker wastepaper baskets. Beginning in 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, The Metal Office Furniture Company (renamed Steelcase in 1954) had just 15 employees and a single product — a fireproof, metal wastepaper basket named the Victor!
During the 1930s, Metal Office collaborated with world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright to produce furniture for the S.C. Johnson & Sons in Racine building, which Life magazine called “the most inspirational office building of the 20th century.”
During World War II, the company designed steel shipboard furniture for the U.S. Navy. One piece of Steelcase naval furniture was used for the historic signing of the surrender documents ending World War II.
Leap Drafting Chair Specifications
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