Due to both the composition and manufacturing process, Path is considered the most sustainable and ergonomically advanced task chair on the market. Designed by Todd Bracher and the Humanscale Design Studio and over five years in the making, the Path chair is composed of nearly twenty-two pounds of recycled content, which includes ocean plastic, plastic bottles, industrial plastic waste, and post-industrial materials. A complete reinvention of the supply chain, every component of the chair except for the screws was designed and engineered by Humanscale. Path’s structural components include 6.24 lbs of fishing nets that are collected by local fishermen and 3.5 pounds of a variety of ocean-bound plastics, a majority of which comes from recycled yogurt cups. These materials are collected within 50km of coastlines, thus preventing potential damage to our oceans and their delicate ecosystems.

Equally as innovative as Path’s design is Humanscale’s trademarked FormSense Eco Knit™ material, a mesh-like textile whose yarn is made with 100% post-consumer recycled polyester from approximately 68 upcycled plastic bottles per chair. Knitted exactly to the shape of the chair, FormSense Eco Knit eliminates the need for cutting or sewing, creating zero waste.

In line with Humanscale’s commitment to healthy materials, Path is toxin-free and comes with transparency labels. The chair is certified net-positive by the International Living Furniture Institute’s Living Product Challenge (LPC), the strictest and most holistic sustainability framework for products in the industry. This certification means that every time a Path chair is made, they’re doing more good than harm, and leaving the planet better off, measured by adding together “footprints” (the damage caused to the environment) and “handprints” (the positive impact brought to the environment). Path received a 20/20 rating by the LPC, setting a new benchmark for responsible manufacturing.

Designed for 95% of the population, Path automatically adjusts to support each user's weight & height using the laws of physics, eliminating the need for any manual adjustments. Unlike other task chairs which meet 50% of the population while still needing manual adjustments, Path doesn’t ask its user to adapt to it, Path adapts to them. This is transformational in the space and also meets contemporary work culture, as hardly anyone uses a dedicated chair anymore.