Shape – Your ergonomic office chair for healthy sitting.

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 …

Shape
How we actively help to prevent problems.

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!

 

Mission to keep backs healthy - the Dauphin Balance concept

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.

1. We spend many hours sitting every day.

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.

2. Our lives - a marathon of sitting.

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.

3. Pain is commonplace.

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.

4. A population of couch-potatoes.

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.

5. This is bad for backs, but also for the economy.

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).


20.5

billion euros of lost production.

6. Ergonomics. The brochure.

 

You can also find more detailed information about this in our Ergonomics brochure.


Shape.
Our solution to escape the monotony of sitting.

Your user benefits for healthy sitting and working:

When using the Syncro-Activ-Balance® mechanism:

  • Automatic seat tilt encourages an upright seated posture for active sitting.
  • Large body opening angle for optimised freedom of movement
  • Largest possible knee and hip angle for better circulation
  • Stimulates muscles and circulation
  • Supports the metabolism, breathing and digestion

When using the Syncro-3D-Balance® mechanism:

In addition to the benefits of the Syncro-Activ-Balance® mechanism, this mechanism also offers:

  • extra dynamism thanks to maximum three-dimensional mobility when sitting and support for natural movements
  • better circulation and an increased supply of oxygen for more concentration and a greater feeling of well-being

Scientific studies demonstrate this effectiveness.

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).

The AGR seal of quality - you can rely on this.

All Shape models bear the AGR seal of quality as clear evidence that this product protects the user’s back!

Prevention<br />
through<br />
dynamic sitting

Prevention
through
dynamic sitting

Ergonomics you can see

Ergonomics you can see

The AGR seal of quality

The AGR seal of quality

Shape.
Always keep moving.

Video manual Shape mesh (3D)


 

Your features.
Individual choice.

Seat depth
Backrest height adjustment
Backrest tilt
Seat height
Backrest counterpressure
Lumbar support
Armrest width adjustment
Seat tilt/Balance
Seat depth
Seat depth

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.

Backrest height adjustment
Backrest height adjustment

Just a press of a button: The backrest can be easily adjusted to the height you want while sitting.

Backrest tilt
Backrest tilt

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.

Seat height
Seat height

As individual as you: Adapt your Shape optimally to your height. The infinite seat-height adjustment gives you free scope to do this.

Backrest counterpressure
Backrest counterpressure

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.

Lumbar support
Lumbar support

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.

Armrest width adjustment
Armrest width adjustment

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.

Seat tilt/Balance
Seat tilt/Balance

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. At a glance.

Shape mesh

Swivel chair

with mesh backrest

Shape mesh soft

Swivel chair

with mesh backrest

Shape mesh comfort

Swivel chair

with textile backrest

Shape elan

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape economy

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape economy2

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape economy2

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

and Ergo neckrest

Shape comfort XT

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape comfort XT2

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape XP

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape XE

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

and Ergo neckrest

Shape XTL

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape XTL

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

Shape XTL

Swivel chair

with upholstered backrest

and Ergo neckrest

Excellent

The German Government’s environmental symbol for particularly eco-friendly products.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Globally recognised seal of quality for certified safety.

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