Has your quest for a decent new chair for your home office left you feeling frustrated? Have you been distinctly underwhelmed by the options you’ve found so far?
Do you find yourself wishing you could find a good quality chair with at least a little bit of style and pizzazz that won’t break the bank?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re going to like what you read in our in-depth review of the TOPSKY High Back Executive Office Chairs.
About the TOPSKY Brand
Haven’t heard of TOPSKY? We’d be surprised if you had. The company plainly admits to being young and untested in their marketing materials, but they build surprisingly good furniture for the money. We love (almost) all their designs, and we think you will too!
Of course, given that TOPSKY offers value-priced furniture, you know the score. The company builds relatively feature-rich products that everyone wants, but to keep the price low, sacrifices have to be made somewhere. In the world of value-priced furniture, the sacrifice is inevitably in the quality of the materials used and the overall production value of the chairs they make.
Here though, TOPSKY seems to have found the sweet spot. Sure, their products are built with materials at the lower-end of the spectrum, but they’re more robust and of better quality than you’d expect, as evidenced by the fact that the company stands behind their products, offering an impressive one-year warranty.
Unlike many companies that offer a broad range of slightly different chairs, TOPSKY takes a more minimalist approach. You’ll find only three Executive Office chairs, one task chair, and one gaming chair.
We like that. It allows them to spend more of their time improving that handful of models rather than dividing their attention among more products than they can effectively manage. Smart move.
In the sections that follow, we’ll tell you all about the various chairs the company offers. Even if you opt to go in some other direction, we think you’ll agree; for the money, these are impressive products!
About TOPSKY Office Chairs
The first thing that jumped out at us when we started taking a closer look at the TOPSKY office chairs is how innovative their designs are.
While it’s true that this is a young company and a young brand, it’s clear that their design team has real talent. They make solid products for the money and their designs are striking, and in some cases, even bold.
Granted, sometimes they swing and miss (i.e., the Wave Chair, which we regard as a good try, but an ultimately flawed design), but you can’t achieve greatness without taking a few risks. Our sense of it is that TOPSKY wants to be a great company, and we think they’re off to an outstanding start.
The second thing to talk about where the brand is concerned is that although the materials are still at the lower end of the spectrum, as you’d expect in bargain-priced furniture, they’re at the upper end of the lower part of the spectrum, which means they’re somewhat more robust than other bargain brands you may be considering.
This is expressed in two ways: First, note the maximum weight limits that these chairs support. Second, note the one-year product warranty, which is almost unheard of at the value end of the market. Put those two things together, and you get a surprisingly solid piece of furniture.
Granted, their Executive and Gaming chairs are upholstered with bonded leather, which will start showing its age relatively quickly, but on the whole, these chairs will stand up better to regular daily use far better than many other budget brands will. That’s a very good thing.
Assembly is Required
Although this won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who has ever bought budget-priced furniture, TOPSKY office chairs don’t come assembled. In fact, the argument could be made that TOPSKY furniture comes even less assembled than most others. You’ve literally got to put it all together, from the ground up.
That’s neither good nor bad really, but it’s something to be aware of. The assembly process isn’t especially tricky, and while the exact assembly time varies from one model to another, expect it to take the better part of an hour if you’re doing it solo, and about thirty minutes if you have a trusty assistant.
Also note that if you’re doing it solo, there will be times when you’ll probably be tempted to use a bit of colorful language and find yourself wishing you had an extra pair of hands. It’s doable on your own; it’s just more convenient with help.
TOPSKY Office Chairs Comparison Table
|
Best Value
|
|
|
|
|
3.9
|
4.0
|
3.4
|
3.6
|
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
4.3
|
|
4.5
|
4.8
|
4.0
|
4.8
|
|
4.8
|
4.8
|
3.0
|
4.0
|
|
1.5
|
1.5
|
1.5
|
1.5
|
|
A stylish, modern-looking chair that’s significantly more durable than its price would suggest.
|
The redesign of the Wave chair, this model keeps all the same features but offers more conventional styling and padding.
|
TOPSKY’s best ergonomic chair. Not as attractive as the other models the company makes, but it offers superb ergonomic support.
|
An amazing design, somewhat limited in its appeal by its relatively small size.
|
|
Anyone on a budget. This is an awesome chair.
|
Recommended for heavier users. If you weigh less than 330 pounds, you’ll probably want the Modern, if you weigh 330 to 400 pounds, this is the model you want.
|
Anyone looking for a great, well-priced chair with well-implemented ergonomic features.
|
Anyone under 5’11” tall, who’s on a budget and looking for an awesome, versatile gaming chair.
|
|
26.4” x 26” x 47.7” to 54.7”
|
27” x 26” 45” to 48”
|
26” x 24” x 44.5” to 48.5”
|
27.5” x 26” x 47.2” to 51.2”
|
|
44 pounds
|
58 pounds
|
39.8 pounds
|
44.1 pounds
|
|
330 pounds
|
400 pounds
|
330 pounds
|
300 pounds
|
|
90 to 145 degrees
|
N/A
|
90 to 145 degrees
|
90 to 175 degrees
|
|
21.7”
|
24”
|
20”
|
21.3”
|
|
19” to 22.5”
|
20.5” to 24”
|
17.5” to 21”
|
15.7” to 19.7”
|
|
19.5”
|
21”
|
21”
|
20.5”
|
*While aesthetics is a matter of taste, aesthetic flexibility is a measure of how easily a given design would fit into a wide range of home or office décor schemes.
**Brand Reliability is a measure of the strength and longevity of the brand, which by extension, is a measure of the level of support you can expect.
TOPSKY Modern Executive Office Chair – Best Value
Recommended For: Anyone on a budget. This is an awesome chair.
The Modern Executive Office Chair isn’t the most expensive chair TOPSKY makes but it can rightly be considered to be the company’s flagship model.
The first thing you’ll notice about this chair is that it’s amazingly stylish. At first glance, you’d think it was a much more expensive chair because, normally, value brands keep it simple. They stick with what works. They don’t take chances.
TOPSKY took an entirely different approach, and it paid off.
Their Modern Executive Office Chair is a fantastic, innovative design that verges on being bold. It doesn’t feature a true racing style seat, but it’s evident at a glance that it was inspired by gaming chairs with racing-style seats.
Although the padding is simple block foam, there’s a lot of it, and the TOPSKY High Back Racing Style PU Leather chair is more comfortable than you’d expect, given the price it’s being offered at.
Even better, almost everything about it is adjustable. The seat canrecline to an impressive 145 degrees and is lockable in a variety of positions, and the seat height has an impressive adjustment range, as do the armrests and the headrest.
In addition to being stylish and surprisingly comfortable, TOPSKY also included a full suite of ergonomic design features which further enhance the chair’s comfort while encouraging better posture habits.
The company describes the base as being chrome, but before you get your hopes up, we’ll clarify. It’s tube steel with chrome plating sprayed over it. That’s still a cut above what you’d expect from bargain-priced furniture, but it’s not chrome. They couldn’t sell the chair at such a low price if it were.
In any case, the fact that it’s got a metal base as opposed to nylon goes a long way toward explaining why the model is more durable than many of the chairs it competes with, and why it’s capable of supporting more than 300 pounds of user weight.
Although the TOPSKY High Back Racing Chair is capable of standing up to regular moderate to heavy daily use, there are two things to be mindful of:
First, since the base is just chrome plated, be careful about knocking the chair against other furniture or kicking the base, as it will cause the chrome to begin flaking off. Second, the upholstery is bonded leather.
Leather in any form is a good thing, but bonded leather is at the lower end of the spectrum.
It’s made of leather scraps that have been fussed together, and as such, it’s not as sturdy and is less supple than grain leather. Given that, it’ll start showing its age more quickly than you’d like it to.
Even so, given the modest asking price, those are limitations most people can live with.
TOPSKY “Wave” Executive Office Chair
The company’s most expensive chair, the Wave has several features in common with their Modern Executive Office chair, including the fact that it features a bold, innovative design. Unfortunately, in this case, we feel that it missed the mark.
Not only do we not find the Wave chair to be less aesthetically appealing, but we also find the wave cushions to be less comfortable than TOPSKY had hoped. Sure, the TOPSKY Racing Gaming Chair has got generous amounts of block foam padding and ergonomic design features, but in this instance, the implementation was much less than it could have been.
Ostensibly, this design is supposed to strengthen the ergonomic aspects of the chair and provide added comfort. In our view, it’s a bit like sitting on a lumpy mattress. The chair is well padded, but just not as comfortable as it could be, and mostly that comes down to the “waves” the chair offers.
We’ll be quick to say though here in our TOPSKY Gaming Chair review that some people may love the look and feel of it, so it’s definitely worth checking out to see how you feel about it.
Other than the issues we have with the overall design and the comfort, we readily admit that it’s a solid, well-built chair. The Wave is even sturdier than the company’s flagship model, its chrome-plated aluminum base being capable of supporting users weighing up to four hundred pounds.
Like the flagship model, it can recline to a maximum of 145 degrees and is generally capable of standing up to the rigors of heavy daily use. Although we note that the bonded leather upholstery will likely start showing its age even faster on this model than the others the company sells.
TOPSKY “New Type” Executive Office Chair – Overall Best
The “New Type” Executive Office Chair is rugged, durable, and can support a surprising amount of weight. Recommended for heavier users.
The fact that this model exists is probably what impresses us more than anything about TOPSKY, and why we feel that they’re here to stay, and will grow to become a well-known, well-respected brand in the value segment of the office furniture market.
The “New Type” features much more conventional styling and offers the best of both worlds; a synthesis of features from the Modern and Wave chairs, with a surprise thrown in for good measure.
We regard the Wave chair as a swing and a miss, and apparently, so did a broad swath of the market. So…the company redesigned the chair, showing a fair amount of nimbleness and demonstrating that they’re learning quickly.
The base of this chair has been upgraded from aluminum to light-grade steel finished with chrome plating which makes it even more capable of standing up to the rigors of everyday use than the models we’ve talked about so far.
As before, however, we’ll caution potential buyers to be careful about banging the base against other furniture or kicking it, as the chrome plating will flake off easily.
The big surprise and best addition of this model though comes in the seat. Not only does it offer generous amounts of block foam padding and a waterfall seat design, but this model also features support springs in the seat cushion like you’d find in a mattress.
It’s a nice touch that adds to the overall level of comfort.
Combine that with the adjustable ergonomic headrest and the extra wide (5”!) height-adjustable padded armrests, and it’s hard not to like this chair!
Note: This model is available in either brown or black.
TOPSKY Mesh Office Chair
Recommended For: Anyone seeking an ergonomic mesh chair for under $200.
TOPSKY again demonstrates their excellent design philosophy with this simple mesh office chair.
On the face of it, there doesn’t appear to be much to recommend it. It’s mesh, and sure, it has a breathable fabric, well-padded seat cushion, but at first glance, you might be tempted to give this one a pass.
Look more closely, however, and you’ll see that it’s got the same 145-degree recline angle that the company’s more expensive chairs offer, as well as height adjustable armrests.
We would like to point out here in our TOPSKY Mesh Computer Office Chair review that on top of that, you’ll find an articulated ergonomic headrest, plus an independently adjustable lumbar support pillow that allows you to tweak the level of support the chair provides, tailoring it to your needs. That’s amazing, given the modest price of the chair.
Not many models that cost three or four times what this one does offers features like that, which makes this an exceptional find for people who are buying a chair specifically with exceptional ergonomic features in mind.
Like the other models we’ve talked about, it’s got a chrome-plated aluminum base, so it’s reasonably well equipped to stand up to the rigors of moderate to heavy daily use.
If you spend hours at a time in front of your computer and are looking for a bargain-priced office chair with excellent ergonomic features, the TOPSKY Mesh Computer Chair is the one you want. Note, however, you will give up a bit where aesthetics is concerned.
TOPSKY Gaming Chair
Recommended For: Anyone under 5’11” tall, who’s on a budget and looking for an awesome, versatile gaming chair.
TOPSKY scores again with another brilliant, innovative design. Their gaming chair is out of this world. Unfortunately, it’s not for everyone.
The company’s design centers on the bucket-style seat, which offers a full range of well-implemented ergonomic supports plus an extra lumbar support pillow and an extra headrest pillow (both of these “extra” pillows are removable, of course).
TOPSKY opted to offer this model in three different color combinations: Aquamarine + black + white, Grey + black + white, or Red + black + white. It’s got a bold, exciting look that’s ideally suited for the younger generation, but which may struggle to blend well with most home décor schemes.
Even so, the TOPSKY Racing Computer Gaming Chair is delightfully well-padded (conventional block foam) with comfortable armrests, a fantastic maximum recline angle and a built-in, hideaway ottoman that allows you to stretch out and relax, or even take short naps in the chair if you so desire.
Note: It’s comfortable enough for short naps, but this isn’t a chair you’d want to try spending the night in.
All that sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? But there’s a catch.
To keep the costs down, the company had to switch away from their chrome-plated aluminum base and to a nylon base, which means that this model isn’t as durable and can’t support quite as much weight as the other chairs in the TOPSKY lineup.
Even so, if you’re young and hip and looking for an amazing, comfortable gaming chair, and if you are 5’11” or shorter and don’t exceed this model’s maximum weight limit, you’re probably going to love this chair!
That’s a fair number of “if’s” strung together, which is an indication that this model, unlike the rest of the company’s product line, is a bit more narrowly targeted.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the TOPSKY High Back Racing Style chair is something to be aware of because if you fall outside those parameters, this chair just isn’t going to work for you.
Pros & Cons of TOPSKY Office Chairs
Here are the things we think you’ll like best about the TOPSKY brand in general:
And here are a few things that might give you pause:
On the whole, we think the pros far outweigh the cons, but we realize that everyone is different and some of the negatives might be deal breakers for you.
TOPSKY High Back Executive Office Chairs Review – Conclusion
In our view, most of the TOPSKY High Back Executive Office Chairs (with the exception of the Wave chair) is an exceptional value for the money, and even the Wave Chair will have its share of fans, although we stand by our conclusion that it’s the weakest member of the company’s product line.
If you’re on a budget and looking for a reasonably comfortable office chair that offers surprisingly good quality, TOPSKY chairs are well worth considering.
We recommend the entire line, though we note that the two standout models the company offers are their “Modern” Executive Office Chair, which provides the best value, and the “New Type” which is the overall best chair the company currently has for sale.
REFERENCES & RESOURCES
- TOPSKY Furniture, Official Brand Website.
- When to Replace An Office Chair, Baylor University.
- Ergonomics in the Office – What You Need to Know, Office Furniture Now.
- How Smart Office Furniture Solutions Can Improve Physical And Mental Health, Health Business.