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Chair Options – Build Your Own

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.

Office Chair 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.

Fabric & Colour

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.

A wealth of office chair fabric options

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 Fabric colour swatches.

    Chelsea Q Fabric Upholstery

    Chelsea Q upholstery is 100% wool and suitable for commercial use.

     View Chelsea Q Colours

  • Ashcroft fabric upholstery colour swatches.

    Ashcroft Fabric Upholstery

    Ashcroft fabric upholstery is 100% polyester and suitable for commercial use.

    View Ashcroft Colours

  • New Victoria Leather colour swatches.

    Leather Upholstery

    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.

     View Leather Colours

  • Pacifica Vinyl Colour choices for chairs.

    Pacifica Vinyl Upholstery

    Vinyl upholstery is 100% polyester and suitable for commercial use.

     View Vinyl Colours

  • Materialised Endurance EPU Vinyl

    Materialised Endurance EPU Vinyl  is recommended for Hospitals.

     View Materialised Endurance EPU Vinyl Colours and Specifications

  • If you would prefer a patterned fabric, contact ARTEIL for more selections.

    Contact ARTEIL

OFFICE CHAIR ARMS

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 and chrome adjustable arm options from ARTEIL can be adjusted to suit your seating position or removed should they not be necessary.

Chair Arms

Adjustable Arms

  • Can be adjusted up and down to allow you to sit correctly at your desk
  • Can be removed from the chair if not required
  • Black powder coated upright with a soft moulded black arm pad

Chair Mechanism

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.

Mechanisms for Office chairs
  • Duomatic – 4 chair adjustments (seat height, seat angle, back height, back angle)
  • Duomatic with Sliding Seat – 5 chair adjustments (seat height, seat angle, back height, back angle, sliding seat)
  • HD Tiltamatic – 4 chair adjustments (seat height, seat angle, back height, back angle) – Heavy Duty
  • Tiltamatic – 5 chair adjustments (seat height, seat angle, seat tilt, back height, back angle)
PDF Instructions for Mechanisms
  • ARTEIL Duomatic Chair Mechanism Instructions (View PDF)
  • ARTEIL Sliding Seat Instructions (View PDF)
  • ARTEIL Tiltamatic Chair Mechanism Instructions (View PDF)

Chair Seat Size

Every users’ needs are different. ARTEIL has advanced sliding seat options to fit all customers, no matter your requirements.

The sliding seat options are available on all Duomatic mechanisms and offer 5 unique locking positions to create the perfect custom office chair.

Features
  • Available option on all duomatic mechanisms
  • Seat size adjusts from S – XL (45-52 cm)
  • 5 locking positions
  • One size fit all
  • Available on most Office Chairs
  • Without Sliding Seat
    Seat without Sliding Seat option
  • With Sliding Seat
    Seat with Sliding Seat option

Office Chair Base

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.

  • 5 Star Black Base

    • Fits most offices chairs and stools
    • Durable base
    • Includes castors
  • Polished Aluminium Base

    • Fits most offices chairs and stools
    • Durable polished aluminium base
    • Does not include castors

Castors & 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.

  • Standard Castors

    Suitable on carpet and chair mats.

  • PU(Polyurethane) Castors

    recommended for hard floors. 

  • Lever Lockable Castors (Set of 5)
    Lever Lockable Castors

    Each castor can be manually locked via a lever

  • PU Chair Castors (Set of 5)
    PU Brake Unloaded Castors

    Full movement when chair occupied, minimal movement when chair vacant – suitable on hard floors

  • PU Brake Unloaded Castors (Set of 5)
    PU Brake Loaded Castors

    Minimal movement when chair occupied, full movement when chair vacant – suitable on hard floors

  • Glides

    Stopper in base of chair instead of castors – chair is unable to roll

Air Lumbar Support

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.

Features
  • Inflatable Air Lumbar support
  • Level of support is easily adjustable
  • Supports your lower back
  • Helps relieve lower back pain
  • Available on most Office Chairs

View Air Lumbar PDF.

There are also specific chairs for lower back pain with built-in lumber support. 

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