Shape allows you to create your perfect workplace – this swivel chair adapts to your individual needs. Whether you’re big or small, our Balance ergonomics concept allows everyone to sit with the correct posture.
Our mechanisms are patented, have proven their worth millions of times and have been given the AGR seal of quality for products that are particularly good at protecting users’ backs.
Experience it yourself …
Movement is the key word. Our Shape office chairs with Balance mechanisms enable an active, dynamic seated posture in all working positions. This means you can prevent back pain!
Our Balance concept with the patented Syncro-Activ-Balance® and Syncro-3D-Balance® mechanisms is specially designed to allow ample freedom of movement with the office swivel chair, encourage a frequent change of physical posture and thus promote healthy, dynamic and fatigue-free sitting. We are therefore helping people to achieve an active, healthy posture and a greater feeling of well-being at work.
Just four hours of constant sitting are enough to disturb the balance of our metabolism. According to the German Health Insurance Report 2023, Germans spend an average of 9.2 hours sitting down each day.
Ø 9.2
hours sitting per day.
From a kitchen chair to a car, from the car to an office chair and sitting on the sofa in the evening – our lives really are a marathon of sitting! When it comes to sitting down in our professional and private lives, the average adult spends 11.5 hours a day sitting down. But the human body is not designed for constant sitting.
Approx. 80,000
hours of sitting over a professional lifetime.
According to a survey by Aktion Gesunder Rücken e.V., 3 in 4 Germans suffer from back pain at least once a month. 30% of those surveyed actually experience daily pain.
For 70%
of adults, back pain is a significant issue.
80% of children and young people do not do sufficient exercise (WHO). We spend our weeks sitting in our offices and our weekends on the sofa.
2/3
of Germans do not even spend an hour moving each day.
Days off work due to muscular-skeletal illnesses cause the biggest cost to the economy with 35.2 billion euros of lost value added (source: BAUA Changing World of Work/Facts and Figures 2023).
billion euros of lost production.
You can also find more detailed information about this in our Ergonomics brochure.
Your user benefits for healthy sitting and working:
Dauphin has been the specialist in ergonomic working for more than 50 years. For a healthy, dynamic seated posture. For your well-being and better concentration at work.
Several studies by Dr. Fritz Andreas Schön and Dr. Dieter Preim on dynamic sitting under various workplace conditions highlight that the technical features of the office chair play an important role in influencing the way we sit. (Source: Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie 2/2009).
All Shape models bear the AGR seal of quality as clear evidence that this product protects the user’s back!
Prevention
through
dynamic sitting
Ergonomics you can see
The AGR seal of quality
How close together should the seat and backrest be?
You can decide by adjusting the seat depth. The standard sliding seat gives you up to 6 cm to play with.
Just a press of a button: The backrest can be easily adjusted to the height you want while sitting.
Lean back and relax – as much as you want!
The comfortable backrest opening angle can be adjusted backwards infinitely up to 128°. Reflecting how intense your moments of inspiration are.
As individual as you: Adapt your Shape optimally to your height. The infinite seat-height adjustment gives you free scope to do this.
Follows your dynamics: You can quickly and easily adjust the backrest counterpressure using the handwheel so that ideally when you sit upright your upper body is gently supported, but not pushed forwards.
The optimum height of the lumbar support? At your waistline!
On Shape comfort XT you can alter the depth by using the handwheel to move the lumbar pad forwards or backwards.
The optimum width of the armrests? With the shoulder area relaxed!
You can easily adjust the width of the armrests without any tools by opening the locking lever, moving the armrest to the position you want and then locking it again with the locking lever.
Sitting healthily? Automatically!
Shape features automatic seat-tilt adjustment up to -12° (AB) or -8° (3D). The entire upper part of the chair is tilted forwards - and you can then adopt a healthy seated posture!
Shape mesh
Swivel chair
with mesh backrest
SH 3725
Shape mesh soft
Swivel chair
with mesh backrest
SH 3755
Shape mesh comfort
Swivel chair
with textile backrest
SH 3745
Shape elan
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 3625
Shape economy
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 2815
Shape economy2
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 3845
Shape economy2
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
and Ergo neckrest
SH 3895
Shape comfort XT
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 2745
Shape comfort XT2
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 2785
Shape XP
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 4235
Shape XE
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
and Ergo neckrest
SH 4145
Shape XTL
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 3515
Shape XTL
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
SH 3535
Shape XTL
Swivel chair
with upholstered backrest
and Ergo neckrest
SH 3585
The German Government’s environmental symbol for particularly eco-friendly products.
Decision-making aid for buying products that protect the back, rated as “very good” by ÖKO-TEST.
Seal of quality for high-quality office solutions, expert advice and customised service.
LEVEL is the first European certificate to combine all the relevant aspects of sustainability, based on the FEMB sustainability standard.
Globally recognised seal of quality for certified safety.
