The Perfect Modern Desk Chairs for Every Budget, Style, and Body
When you first start working from home, it’s easy to fall into the habit of working from your dining table – or worse, your sofa or bed. But, creating an ergonomically correct home office setup has a wealth of stress-reducing, productivity-increasing benefits.
All of the products listed below come from direct-to-consumer brands. By selling directly to consumers rather than through third-party retailers (who take a cut of profits and add costs to consumers), these brands can produce higher-quality home office furniture and pass savings on to consumers like you and me.
Direct-to-Consumer Home Office Desks
Branch Office Desk, $445
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Branch was founded in 2018 with a vision to make high-quality office furniture accessible to everyone.
For its first few years, it focused on outfitting commercial offices for businesses like Breather, Baron Fig, and Tumblr. Now, it sells its furniture directly to consumers to help bring professional-quality home office furniture.
The Branch Office Desk is one of our favorites. Its minimal design makes it look like part of the decor, and it features flared legs, height-adjustable feet, and a brushed cable port.
The desk also comes with a choice of a white or woodgrain top and polished or powder-white legs. The desk’s steel frame and anodized legs are built to support up to 650 pounds of weight, and it’s backed by the Branch Warranty for ten years.
“The build quality is superb. Absolutely no wobble,” one reviewer wrote.
Shop now at branchfurniture.com.
Floyd Table/Desk, $595
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Floyd is a Detroit-based furniture brand founded to change how people consume, keep, and enjoy furniture. Its goal is to create modern office furniture that won’t deteriorate when moved or follow trends that go out of style in a few years.
Floyd's Table is a perfect home office desk, made from real birch, walnut, and steel and manufactured responsibly in the US. Additionally, it is versatile enough to be used as a dining table, providing you with flexible options to maximize your work space at home.
Available in four color options — Birch, Walnut, Blush, and Fog — and a range of combinations with black and white leg options, The Floyd Desk is built to last forever and backed by the brand’s ten-year warranty.
It’s also a popular solution for customers, with over 115 reviews and an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. “My work from home setup is now better than any office setup I've ever had,” says one reviewer.
Eternity Modern Desk, $1,739
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Eneternity Modern moved into contemporary office furniture with the launch of its Naver 1340 Desk designed to work from home.
Naver Office Desk is designed to cater to your needs — whether you’d like a minimalist desk or multiple monitor stands and a shelf for every gadget, the choice is yours.
The desk is crafted from natural walnut veneer over MDF and stainless steel base.
Shop now at eternitymodern.com
Uhuru Frame Rise Desk
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Uhuru Design is a furniture design firm based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Established in 2004, founders Jason Horvath and Bill Hilgendorf started designing and building custom high-end, modern office furniture with reclaimed materials.
Inspired by the concept of an Architect's desk, the Rise Desk features a minimal design with box legs and is perfect for a home office space. It has a built-in compartment that holds power strips and helps conceal cables.
Shop now at uhurudesign.com
Artifox Desk 02, $1,290
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Artifox designs and manufactures beautiful, minimalist home office furniture. Founded in 2014 by an architect and a visual designer, the brand is focused on reinventing everyday artifacts with a contemporary design and adapting them to better suit our daily lives.
The first Artifox product was a desk — DESK 01. And now, with DESK 02, it has crafted a modern, tech-friendly workspace for home offices.
This contemporary desk has a built-in dock for storing phones and tablets, a functional cable grid for neatly managing power cords, and super handy pegs for hanging headphones or bags.
It’s a big hit with Artfox customers. One reviewer said: “I’ve been using and loving my DESK 02 for 3 months now. It keeps surprising and impressing me with tiny design details that make my life easier.”
This exceptional product also works with a range of Artifox accessories, such as the LIFT, which provides multi-level storage for display monitors, notebooks, plants, and more.
Caramba Goldilocks Desk, $599
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Caramba was founded by a pair of stay-at-home dads who are passionate about furniture design. Each piece of furniture they make is manufactured in Victoria, British Columbia, and is made from sustainably sourced 1-inch European birch plywood, which is very durable and incredibly strong.
The mid-century-inspired Goldilocks Desk was designed as a solution for people who work from home and want to carve out a productive space.
The desk is designed with strategically placed holes in the desktop for cords to pass through and is available in two sizes (though if you need a custom-sized desktop Caramba is keen to help out).
You can also combine it with Caramba’s Monitor Stand to create a dream setup and give yourself a little bit more work space in your home office.
The Goldilocks has seven reviews on Caramba’s website — each rating it 5 out of 5. One customer said: “It was so easy to put together, customer service was impeccable, and it is just the desk I was looking for to spruce up my work from home space.”
Direct-to-consumer Home Office Standing Desk
Fully Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk, $559
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The Jarvis is a lift desk known for its adjustable height feature, which is made with the environment in mind.
Its desktop is made with bamboo sourced from sustainable forests, where it grows without pesticides or fertilizers and matures for five years.
It has an impressive 350-lb lifting capacity and quickly and quietly adjusts from a top height of 50" to a level low enough for you to sit on the floor.
Uhuru Frame Rise Desk, $1,150
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The Frame Rise Desk is a sit-stand desk with numerous configurations and an adjustable table height from 24” to 49”, so you can set your work surface at an ergonomic level, whether sitting or standing.
It is made with high-quality materials, including oak wood and a sturdy steel base that supports up to 250 lbs.
A minimal digital display pad lets you quietly adjust the desk height in just a few clicks as whisper-quiet electric lifters move the desktop to your preferred height. The Frame Rise Desk is designed to support up to 250 lbs.
Shop now at uhurudesign.com.
Branch Standing Desk, $779
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The Branch Standing Desk is built for people of all shapes and sizes. Its three-stage lift creates a stable fit for people up to 6'8".
Dual EasyGlide motors make height adjustments simple, fast, and smooth enough not to spill your coffee. This lift desk is a versatile foundation for healthy work, built to support up to 250 lbs and available in two sizes and your choice of a white or woodgrain top.
Shop now at branchfurniture.com.
Artifox Standing Desk 02, $1,490
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Artifox’s Standing Desk 02 is designed to look great in any home office. It has plenty of room for monitors, laptops, speakers, and other office supplies, helping you increase your productivity.
Featuring all of the great touches that make Artifox desks special—built-in dock, cable grid, and pegs—the Standing Desk 02 is 42” and available in black, walnut, and white oak bases, with a couple of choices for desktop colors, too.
Shop now at thesartifox.com.
Direct-to-consumer Home Office Chairs
Branch Ergonomic Chair, $289
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The Branch Ergonomic Chair ticks all the ergonomic boxes with seven points of adjustment — three-way armrests, height, tilt and tilt tension, seat depth and lumbar support.
The chair was designed in Italy—inspired by the clean lines and carbon fiber of Italian automotive design—and is made with premium, recyclable materials and backed by a seven-year warranty. Its double-layered nylon mesh weave eliminates pressure points with breathable support.
Shop now at branchfurniture.com.
ReGeneration by Knoll, $610
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This is a more expensive option, but it has everything you need in a home office chair. ReGeneration offers responsive comfort and intuitive adjustment in an eco-friendly chair made from recycled materials.
Available in Onyx black and four seat color options — Oxyx, Bluemarine, Pebble (silver), and Olive — the ReGeneration chair is light, compact, and designed to respond to your movements as you shift and shuffle around your home office throughout the day.
Fully Desk Chair, $299
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In collaboration with its sibling brand, Able Desk Co., they developed this chair to be fully adjustable and comfortable in a range of seating positions.
The chair has simple controls to adjust the seat height and armrests and a reclining backrest to find your perfect seating position. The Fully Desk chair was ergonomically designed to keep you comfortable for full days sat at your desk.
Hermann Miller Mirra 2, $745
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Full disclosure: This is the chair I use in my home office. It was a big investment but 100% worth it. The Mirra 2 is super comfortable and adaptable for exactly how you like to sit and work.
The Mirra 2 is designed to move with you. When you sit, the seat adapts to you instantly and its Loop Spine provides torsional flex, allowing you to stretch and reach without losing support. The chair's Harmonic 2 tilt has a responsive leaf spring design that provides a smooth and balanced feel as you move from one posture to another, whatever your size or stature.
The Mirra 2 is a great option for your home office. It comes with a 12-year warranty and is available in a versatile color palette. Every chair is made in Michigan at a 100% green-energy facility.
Shop now at hermanmiller.com.
Home Office Accessories
Open Spaces Nesting Trays, $42
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An organized workspace can be a real productivity boost. These nesting trays from Open Spaces are the perfect desktop companion to help keep your surface clear and everything in its place.
Shop now at getopenspaces.com.
Bloomscape Plants, From $35
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Indoor plants are a great way to brighten up your home office. They look great, and have been proven to boost your mood, improve memory and concentration, and clean the air.
When it comes to picking the best indoor plants for your office, Bloomscape is a great place to start your search. You can add a little greenery to your desktop with smaller plants like Hedgehog Aloe and Silver Pothos, or place a couple of floor plants — like a ZZ Plant or Sansevieria— next to your workspace.
Grovemade Wall Shelf, $320
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A wall shelf offers additional storage and organization to your workspace and a chance to display things that matter most and create a happy, productive environment.
These shelves from Grovemade are made with natural materials and designed to give you clean lines and subtle functionality.
