Who writes this

Jean-Benoit Buisson

Every page on this site is written and signed by one person. This page says who, how the judgments are reached, and — just as importantly — what he is not.

How I got here

This site began with a question that has nothing to do with any one chair and everything to do with how they are all sold: why does the adjustment range on the box never say what it actually adjusts to? Every page I found while looking for an answer had the same shape — a ranked list, a score out of ten, an affiliate button, and not one figure I could check. None of them said whether the lumbar support was fixed or genuinely adjustable, whether a gas-spring monitor arm's weight range was measured against a real screen or just printed on the box, or that the fix for a wobbling standing desk was usually a bolt worth tightening rather than a new frame.

That is the whole subject. Home-office equipment almost never fails outright; a caster wears down, an armrest pad cracks, a monitor arm's gas spring settles and starts to drift, and then the whole chair or arm gets blamed and replaced. A chair gets returned because its lumbar support does not suit the person sitting in it — something the listing rarely lets you check — not because it is poorly built. A monitor arm sold on its weight range turns out to sag once a real screen is mounted for a few weeks. None of that is on the front of the box, and all of it decides whether a piece of equipment earns its place at a desk or ends up back in a cupboard after one disappointing month.

So this is the page I wanted and could not find. I read what manufacturers publish, I check every product reference market by market, I follow what things actually cost rather than what they are listed at, and I say plainly when a figure is not published at all. That last part matters more than it sounds: most of the disappointment here comes from a number nobody printed.

I keep notes — the honest specification of each family, the place where the manual contradicts the sales page, which caster or armrest pad fits which chair, and the buying mistake each category invites. This site is those notes, put in order, in five languages, because the same question is asked in French, German, Spanish and Italian and gets a far worse answer in four of them.

I am not an ergonomist, and I do not pretend to be. Nothing on this site is medical advice. What I can do is read carefully, compare honestly, and tell you which figure the maker left out.

What this site covers

Everything listed here is taken from the catalog of this site, and each entry links to its own page. When the catalog changes, this list changes with it. It is a list of what is covered — not a list of what I own.

Ergonomic office chairs (4)

Electric standing desks (5)

Monitor arms (4)

Desk privacy screens (4)

Laptop stands (4)

Ergonomic keyboards (4)

Ergonomic mice (4)

Wrist rests (4)

Ergonomic footrests (4)

Lumbar & seat cushions (4)

Desk lamps (5)

Desk organizers (5)

Chair floor mats (4)

Desk storage cabinets (4)

Chair casters (12)

Chair covers (7)

Chair armrest pads (9)

Standing desk parts (4)

Desk converter risers (9)

Cable management (9)

Desk power strips (5)

Under-desk cable trays (6)

Anti-fatigue mats (10)

Dual monitor mounts (10)

Monitor riser stands (5)

Webcams & mounts (10)

Headset stands (9)

Document holders (9)

Desk trash bins (8)

Desk clocks (2)

Dust covers (2)

USB hubs & docking (2)

Wireless chargers (2)

Desk pads (2)

What I care about

Three convictions that shape the whole site. The number that gets quoted is usually the wrong one — a chair sold on padding thickness rather than on how many points genuinely adjust, a monitor arm sold on its top weight figure rather than on how it holds position once a real screen settles in, a standing desk sold on top speed rather than on whether the frame stays level under a loaded desktop. What the thing costs over three years decides more than what it costs today — casters, armrest pads and gas springs are wear parts, and on entry-level models they can wear out long before the chair — or simply not be stocked as spares. And the thing that matters most is rarely on the specification sheet at all: whether a listed weight capacity or adjustment range was actually measured against the person using it, or just printed as a round number.

What I am not

I am not an ergonomist, a physiotherapist or a furniture engineer. I hold no qualification in any of them, I have never worked for a manufacturer or for a retailer, and nothing here rests on any professional title. Nothing on this site is medical advice: this site describes a product — its construction, its materials, its adjustment range — and stops there. In particular, nothing here claims to treat, prevent or cure any medical condition; a stated weight capacity or adjustment range is a specification to verify on the current listing, not a guarantee this site can make on a manufacturer's behalf. If you are looking for someone whose authority comes from a job title, this is not that site — what each judgment rests on is stated on the page it appears on, and you can read how a conclusion is formed on these pages in full.

How I work

Every figure names its source: a manufacturer specification, a manual, a standard, the product page, or Keepa's price history.
No price, product reference or specification is ever invented. Where a figure is missing, the field is left empty and the gap is stated on the page.
Product references are verified against Amazon before publication, per market. Where a model is not sold in that store, you are sent to a local search rather than to a page that does not exist.
Where the cheap option wins, the page says the cheap option wins — and where the honest answer is an $8 set of casters or a tightened bolt rather than a new chair, it says that instead.

Why this site exists

Because home-office equipment is sold on the wrong numbers. A chair is advertised on its padding and says nothing about how many points genuinely adjust to a real body. A monitor arm is sold on its top weight figure, and not on whether its gas spring genuinely holds a real screen steady after a few weeks of settling. And the parts treated as afterthoughts — the caster, the armrest pad, the gas spring, the crank motor — are usually the actual fix.

There is also a part of this that is not about buying anything. Most equipment that gets replaced was not worn out; a caster wore flat, an armrest pad cracked, a gas spring settled, and nobody had written down the ten minutes and the few dollars that would have fixed it. A chair that "used to feel fine", a monitor arm that slowly droops, a standing desk that develops a slight lean. Those problems are cheap to fix and almost never written down. That is the subject a page full of new furniture is guaranteed to skip. It is not skipped here.

Correcting me

If something here is wrong, tell me and I will fix it and date the correction on the page. Write to [email protected].

Jean-Benoit Buisson · Paris, France

Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.