If you are seated in the same position for many hours each day, it’s important that you take good care of your posture and lower back. Incorrect seating can cause ongoing and painful problems. By building your own office chair, you’re able to select each and every component to ensure your seating position suits your body type.
The first step to building your own custom office chair is to select the chair type. ARTEIL offers a range of chair types for homes, offices, schools and waiting rooms including mesh, executive and plastic stools.
Fabric options for your new custom chair include leather, polyester, wool or vinyl.
To match the décor of your office space when building your own office chair, it’s important to select the right colour and fabric.
Select from hundreds of fabrics and colour combinations for your new custom office chair with ARTEIL.
ARTEIL offers a wide range of office chair fabric options to choose from. Explore your favourite colours below and get in touch with us to discuss your favourite office chair colours.
Chelsea Q upholstery is 100% wool and suitable for commercial use.
Ashcroft fabric upholstery is 100% polyester and suitable for commercial use.
New Victoria Leather is very much a classic leather. A full top grain lightly pigmented hide. These hides are a giant leap above the average leathers, effortlessly capturing the features of the more expensive products.
Vinyl upholstery is 100% polyester and suitable for commercial use.
Materialised Endurance EPU Vinyl is recommended for Hospitals.
View Materialised Endurance EPU Vinyl Colours and Specifications
Your new custom office chair can be designed to suit your needs, with options to have arms or no arms depending on what you prefer.
Both the adjustable can be adjusted to suit your seating position or removed should they not be necessary.
Adjustable Arms
ARTEIL has a range of mechanisms to choose from when you build your office chair. The standard options come with 4 to 5 chair adjustment options.
Or upgrade to the tiltamatic chair mechanisms for a heavy duty version while still having the ability to choose between 4 or 5 adjustment options.
Every users’ needs are different. ARTEIL has advanced sliding seat options to fit all customers, no matter your requirements.
Our office chairs have the following seat size options:
| Seat Size | Dimensions (Depth x Width) |
| Small | 460 mm x 510 mm |
| Medium | 490 mm x 510 mm |
| Large | 510 mm x 510 mm |
| XS | 440 mm x 510 mm |
| XL | 530 mm x 510 mm |
| XXL | 550 mm x 510 mm |
| Sliding Seat | 490 mm x 510 mm
– Extends from 470mm depth to 520mm depth |
| Seat Size | Dimensions (Depth x Width) |
| One Seat Size only | 530 mm x 540 mm |
| Seat Size | Dimensions (Depth x Width) |
| Medium | 470 mm x 500 mm |
| Large | 490 mm x 540 mm |
| Seat Size | Dimensions (Depth x Width) |
| Small | 460 mm x 510 mm |
| Medium | 490 mm x 510 mm |
| Seat Size | Dimensions (Depth x Width) |
| Small Executive Seat | 510 mm x 520 mm |
| Large Executive Seat | 550 mm x 520 mm |
The two most common office chair base options are the 5-star black base and the polished aluminium base. Both options offer a durable chair base to suit most custom office chairs and stools.
Following the selection of your chair base, you’ll need to decide between castor wheels or glides.
Choice of castors for your new custom office chair will depend on the surface your new chair will be placed on. Options include standard, lockable and brake loaded and unloaded.
When building your own office chair, you also have the option of glides which are perfect for chairs that don’t require the ability to roll.
Suitable on carpet and chair mats.
recommended for hard floors.
Each castor can be manually locked via a lever
Full movement when chair occupied, minimal movement when chair vacant – suitable on hard floors
Minimal movement when chair occupied, full movement when chair vacant – suitable on hard floors
Stopper in base of chair instead of castors – chair is unable to roll
Air lumbar support allows you to adjust your back comfort to reduce and relieve lower back pain.
The level of support is easily adjustable, helping create the perfect custom office chair for anyone that is seated in the same position for many hours every day.
There are also specific chairs for lower back pain with built-in lumber support.