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Most chairs in a catalogue differ by trim. Skate differs by mechanism, and the choice changes how the chair is used. Active has nothing to set for its movement: Sitland’s patented DAT®, Dynamic Adaptive Technology, lets seat and backrest rock freely with the body while keeping a sound posture, with no levers or knobs, and the motion follows each sitter’s own weight. Synchro is the other temperament: a self-weighing synchronised mechanism, a seat that slides from 445 to 520 mm (17½-20½ in) in depth, a lock in four positions with an anti-shock system, and back tension that can be regulated on request.
Both are the same task office chairs underneath. Seat height is set by pressing anywhere on the disc beneath the seat, from any side, a further Sitland patent. The lumbar support travels 105 mm (4⅛ in) and moves while you are seated. The polyamide back frame takes mesh or fabric, and a five-star base of 700 mm (27½ in) rolls on braked 65 mm (2½ in) castors. The listing grades Active as EN 1335 type B and Synchro as type A.
The rest is a matter of fit-out. Frames come in black or white; arms on Active run from fixed through step-by-step to 3D, on Synchro from 1D to 4D, and either can go without. Buyers after a mesh office chair choose between Runner and Rhythm by Gabriel for the back. Sitland drew it for the office and for a home study, and recommends Active for shared and co-working spaces, which is why both versions often share one open-plan floor. Ahead of any order, La Mercanti sends RR and RY mesh swatches so the back is chosen with the material in hand.
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Anywhere on the disc beneath the seat. Sitland patented a height control that works through a full 360°, so there is no single lever to find. The same disc sits under both versions, Active and Synchro, whatever the frame colour.
Sitland designed it for both: the brochure names the office and the corner of the home where you work or study, and credits its ease of use and minimal lines. The mesh or fabric back and the black or white frame are chosen as for any office order.
Free-running 65 mm (2½ in) castors for textile floors, braked rubber castors for hard floors. Braked castors come as standard, and there is a third option, the hollow rubber Moebius by Starck in white or black, also meant for hard floors.
Entirely. Sitland’s data, measured on an Active with aluminium base and fixed arms, give the chair as 100 % disassemblable, with 69 % of it recyclable once it is retired. The same data record 21 % of recycled material in the chair as built.
Yes. Both Active and Synchro can be ordered without arms, and the listing carries the armrests as a separate option shipped in their own carton, for Active and for Synchro alike, so chairs and arms appear as separate lines on an order.
Sitland’s care note for the upholstery of its chairs is short and strict: regular vacuuming, a barely damp cloth for marks, and no rubbing.
Sitland asks for the upholstery of a Skate to be vacuumed at least once a month. The instruction covers the padded seat and, on fabric-back chairs, the back as well.
If grease marks the cover, the only tool Sitland names is a cloth that is barely damp. Wet cleaning, solvents and stain sprays are not part of the instructions.
The cloth can carry neutral soap, and nothing stronger. The note is the same for every fabric Sitland lists for the chair, from the Alba of FiDiVi to the Remix 3 of Kvadrat.
Sitland is explicit that the mark must not be rubbed. The cloth goes onto the stain and comes away again, without working back and forth across the weave.
The last step is to leave the upholstery to dry on its own, at room conditions, before the chair goes back into use. Sitland gives no other drying method for its covers.
