Lithuania. Muista presents its active chair to rock at work

The occupational safety code is clear: it is necessary to take a 15 minutes break every two hours in order to move your body, relax your muscles, stimulate your circulation and take your eyes off the laptop screen. A correct posture is no longer enough, you have to move. How to combine a sedentary work with this need for exercise? This was the challenge of Muista, a Lithuanian brand that has been working for three years on the design and refinement of an active chair. 

The result was Muista Chair, a stool-rocking chair designed to be active while sitting at a desk in front of a computer. There are two possible positions, horizontally like a bench or vertically like a rocking horse. In both cases, the slight and oscillating movement acts against muscular numbness and bring several health benefits: less stress, more balance and a better blood flow.

Designed for Muista by Aurimas Lazinskas in collaboration with Vainius Markelis, Saulius Sestavickas and Vilius Kiskis, all young product designers from Vilnius, the first prototype was launched in 2015. This is the latest version, made with traditional and long-serving materials like birch plywood, high quality wool fabric and PU foam. A nordic, minimalist and warm chair that can be used from corporate to home offices and has movement, a calm and elegant coreography, as a main keypoint.