All week I've been sitting on a desk chair that looks, as one colleague put it, like "an upholstered trash can." It's no wonder that, at first, I felt like garbage: My back tingled, my ankle blistered, and my productivity was shot-Ⅰ couldn't stay still longer than five minutes. But that's the point. Steelcase's Turnstone Buoy, "designed for today's movers and shakers," is an industrial engineer's solution for toe-tapping, fidgeting millennials who want the supposed posture-improving, core-strengthening benefits of a giant rubber fitness ball but don't want to look like a huge nerd. The Buoy is flat on top and comes in six colors, with 25 choices of punchy fabric cushions, including three legitimately stylish Paul Smith macroplaids. The bottom is slightly domed, which constantly destabilizes the seat, making it look like a lobster trap bobbing off the coast of Maine and forcing the sitter to crunch his muscles or jostle his feet to avoid Excel-induced seasickness.
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