Where Can I Buy A Home Office Chair?

Over the summer, I cleaned out my grandfather’s house. He had accumulated a lot of furniture over the years, and I thought it would be a challenge to unload it all. I had never used Facebook Marketplace before, but I figured that would be a good place to start. Boy was it ever: I was shocked at how quickly everything went.

The demand for furniture is booming right now, specifically furniture that can be used in a home office. I ended up selling several very old tables to people who said they planned to use them as desks. And the traditional swivel chair in my grandfather’s office was snatched up in an instant.

I was reminded of this process by an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal: “Available: Thousands of Discounted Herman Miller Chairs for Your Home Office.” After being forced to work from home in ersatz home offices for half a year now, people are desperate for chairs that are not unpleasant to sit on hour after hour, day after day. The high demand means that finding affordable, sturdy and comfortable office chairs has become nearly impossible through the traditional channels, so home workers have started descending on liquidator warehouses. The thinking is: if they can’t get a chair brand new, perhaps they can get their hands on a chair that had once been used in a now empty corporate office. This works well for the liquidators, who discount the furniture, no longer having a steady supply of corporate offices to sell them to.

So, if you’ve been chugging through your work on the same rickety chair for the past six months, seek out your local liquidators. You will surely get a better deal than the $1,400 a classic Herman Miller Aeron chair will set you back on Amazon:

Herman Miller Aeron Ergonomic Chair – Size A, Graphite — $1,395

You are also guaranteed to have it in your possession immediately, something that is certainly not the case when it comes to ordering furniture online these days. With regard to the Aeron chair, Amazon currently only has the Size A (25.75 x 25.75 x 38.5″) in stock, leaving you out of luck if you need the Size B (27 x 27 x 41″) or Size C (18.5 x 28.2 x 43″) anytime soon. And even the Size A inventory is running out… Picking up a chair in person is probably your best bet.