Experience the impossible lightness and effortless support of CYNARA, a task chair that integrates intuitive, responsive functionality with a clean-cut, refined aesthetic to complete any work setting.
Available Regions
Asia Pacific / North America / Latin America / Europe / Middle East Asia and Africa.
Concept
CYNARA’s understated elegance will blend harmoniously into all the places people work – from the office, to co-working and home office settings – breathing quiet sophistication and calm productivity into any environment.
By paring back to its essential form and function CYNARA achieves impossible lightness. The frame flexes to provide responsive ergonomic support, eliminating the need for a complex mechanism. The result is simple, functional, light-scale beauty.
CYNARA’s lighter weight contributes to lower CO2 emissions through production and logistics, offering a more responsible choice for the planet.
Introduction
CYNARA Product Insight
Scenes
Story
Designer Interview
Inspiration
In designing CYNARA, Andreas and Joachim employed minimalistic styling, to create a chair that would fit with a range of interior and personal styles. After all, a chair is not the central player at work; people are. With work styles continuing to change rapidly, people are increasingly mobile. Furniture should be adaptable, and adjustments should be simple. This insight heralded a new spring system that adjusts tension to responsively support a broad range of body types. Through the three-year-long development process, CYNARA was inspired by the yumi, a Japanese bow, which draws power from its distinctive arc form. CYNARA’s gently curved frame echoes the strength and flexibility of the yumi, cradling the seat, to support movement and provide comfort. Okamura made the beautiful design idea a reality, with less weight, thereby reducing CO2 emissions through production and logistics. CYNARA is an intuitive and aesthetically pleasing task chair, with deep consideration given to ergonomics and sustainability.
Designer
Designer:
Andreas Krob
Engineer:
Joachim Brüske
Meet the design team.
CYNARA is the result of a three-year partnership, between the Okamura team, Andreas Krob of Swiss design agency b4K and Joachim Brüske. A product and industrial designer, Krob is renowned for attention to detail, workmanship and a holistic approach to design. Brüske’s meticulous engineering has ensured that the functionality of CYNARA is simpler and more effective than ever. With their combined seating expertise, the pair have created a chair that offers superior lightness.
Design
Weightless beauty.
Effortless support.
Line Up
With Armrests
Hollow Casters
With Armrests
Normal Casters
Without Armrests
Hollow Casters
Without Armrests
Normal Casters
Color Options
White / Dark Gray / Black / Sage / Dark Green / Orange Red / Greige
Standard colors and accent colors both have matching body and mesh.
*Light greige color has white mesh.
Color Simulator
Design Your Own
AR
Please scan the QR code with your iPhone and place CYNARA in your environment.
Function
Smart Ankle-tilt
Reclining
Light-scale Solution
Free Recline
Upright Lock
Height Adjustment
Smart Ankle-tilt Reclining
Okamura has scrutinized and refined the conventional mechanism and operation system, to enhance natural comfort and relaxation. As the result, smart ankle tilt reclining optimizes recline tension for each user and has achieved the most simple and intuitive operating system possible. By upgrading our proprietary ankle tilt reclining system, we have achieved the ultimate in comfortable seating.
Highly resolved, light-scale solution
CYNARA’s superior lightness presents multi-faceted advantages in operations, sustainability, and aesthetics. [Product weight: 9kg(20lbs)]
Free Recline or Upright Lock
The lever under CYNARA’s left side invites you to control the back position. Choose upright lock or recline freely, by up to 12 degrees.
Height Adjustment
Adjust the seat height by up to 110mm to achieve the perfect fit, via the easy-to-reach lever under CYNARA’s right side.
This chair has been designed and tested for users weighing up to 275lbs (124Kg).
This product has passed third-party testing in accordance with BIFMA X5.1 standards.
Sustainability
Okamura sought to create the lightest possible task chair for the twin benefits of reduced CO2 emissions and easy handling. When compared with our standard products, CYNARA’s 50% reduction in weight translates to an impressive 35% reduction in CO2 emissions. CYNARA successfully combines beauty, ergonomics, and sustainability.
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