Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

When Herman Miller first launched Verus in 2017, the intention wasn’t exactly to make a striking visual statement. Designed to democratise the brand’s ergonomic performance at a more attainable price point, Verus’ rectilinear presence challenges the convention of the task chair as an industrial object that unintentionally intimidates the user. Instead, the simple, considered design sits quietly between the almost agricultural language of traditional task chairs with multiple ad