Caper® Stacking Chair from Herman Miller®

Cool, colorful Caper chairs help people quickly and easily come together, move around, move apart--whatever the work requires. Both the multipurpose and stacking models are lightweight and mobile for impromptu change. They are ideal for informal, flexible spaces where reconfiguration is encouraged, smaller scale is important, and budget is a concern.

Caper: Bringing Everybody Together

Caper chairs are for collaborative environments—anywhere people come together periodically to create, discuss, innovate. They are highly mobile, lightweight and stackable. Not just for the office, these chairs are great in a variety of environments, including health care, retail, hospitality, education and recreation—or anywhere spontaneous seating changes are encouraged or required. 

One Chair—Many Solutions.

Tall or small, the Caper chair fits you—and your colleagues and guests. Whether you need to roll around on the casters or sit focused in front of the computer, Caper chairs are great to have on hand for a variety of workstyles.. They serve as mobile and comfortable workstation guest seating, also in conference rooms, team spaces, break-out areas and classrooms.

Feather Light and Mobile.

Stackable and weighing half as much as competitive models, almost anyone can move several of them in one trip. Floor Saver Glides push dirt out of the way instead of grinding it into the floor.

Breathable, Ergonomic Comfort.

Perforated FLEXNET® fabric provides strong breathable suspension and helps keep you cool. Seat and back are contoured to evenly distribute weight, minimize pressure points, and let you move freely. Armrests support elbows and wrists to prevent shoulder fatigue.

Enhances the look and feel of your space.

Caper’s clean, universal design works with just about any decor. It fits in without dominating your workspace.

Design Story

Research shows that an increasing number of people are doing more work in places other than their individual offices or workstations. Now people often work in spaces that can be used by a variety of people throughout the day. As a result, increasing demands for comfort, space efficiency, and ergonomic support are being placed on the secondary seating used in places like conference, project, training, and multipurpose rooms.

However, chairs often used in these spaces were designed for some other purpose and don't have the required capabilities, including easy mobility, light scale, compact footprint, and simple-to-use adjustments.

To develop a solution for hard-working, multiuse spaces, Herman Miller built on its extensive work chair research base and applied it to secondary seating. The result is Caper chair. It was designed by Jeff Weber, of Stumpf/Weber + Associates, using universal design principles, creating one seating product to accommodate the diversity of people, tasks, and behaviors in a multitude of areas.

Weber says the chair achieves its high level of performance and comfort by "using standard materials in novel ways." It's also delivered with integrity. In keeping with Herman Miller's commitment to environmental responsibility, Caper has a high percentage of post-consumer content and is 100 percent recyclable. And the design requires less energy and material to build and recycle.

The Caper family provides all this at an affordable price. "Too much good design seems expensive," Weber says. "I wanted to break that cliche."