Komene Office Chairs Review 2024

*While aesthetics is a matter of taste, aesthetic flexibility measures how easily a given design would fit into a wide range of home or office décor schemes.

**Brand Reliability measures the strength and longevity of the brand, which, by extension, measures the level of support you can expect.

Komene Mesh High Back Executive Chair

The Komene Ergonomic Mesh Office chair can rightly be considered Komene’s flagship model, and it’s an admittedly good chair. Sure, the production quality is on the low side, but that’s common for chairs offered at the budget end of the market. The standard trade-off is lower quality materials to keep the prices low and plenty of features you love.

This model proves that Komene knows something about building office furniture. Virtually every aspect of the chair is adjustable.

Here’s a quick overview:

In addition, the back is segmented, with the well-implemented lumbar support being a separate piece from the rest of the seatback.

It’s a good idea in theory, but the idea behind this approach would be to adjust the lumbar support. Sadly, that’s not the case here. They found and copied the design without fully understanding its purpose or function. 

We can’t say for sure. In any case, while the lumbar support is well-implemented, it is sadly not adjustable. Although it does offer dynamic support, it “pushes back” depending on how much weight you put on it.

Moreover, the seat is waterfall-edge style, which keeps it from cutting off circulation in your legs when you sit for long periods. Combine that with the mesh chair, and you get a chair well suited for long-term sitting and the rigors of heavy daily use.

Unfortunately, the chair is 100% mesh, so the seat has no padding. That works against the notion of long-duration seating, but only slightly. You’d be comfortable in this chair, even sitting for more than eight hours daily.

Our main issues are these:

Although we like what this chair offers, we can’t recommend it for the reasons we’ve already discussed.

Komene Mesh High Back Computer Chair

While less capable than the company’s flagship model in most respects, this one offers a slightly better value for the money while retaining a surprisingly good feature set. The company advertises this as a “heavy duty” model but lacks the superior welds, high strength base, and added weight limit to support that claim. Even so, it does have some good features on offer.

Here’s the overview:

We count this as an all-mesh design because the seat is covered with a cotton-based mesh-like fabric, so it retains its breathability while providing a greater level of comfort overall. 

Again, given the low-quality materials used in construction and the relatively modest weight limit, we can’t agree with the company that this is a “heavy-duty” design. Further, given the brand issues already mentioned here in our Komene Ergonomic Mesh Office Chair review, although there are things we like about this model, we can’t recommend it.

Komene Mesh Task Chair

The Mesh task chair is the least expensive model offered by Komene and offers a better value proposition than the flagship model, owing to its substantially lower price, but a slightly worse one than the computer chair, which puts it squarely in the middle of the two overall.

The Komene product line is somewhat unusual. The flagship model is simultaneously the most capable and feature-rich chair the company makes but also the lowest rated, mostly because of its hefty price tag.

This is a good little chair, although we’ll quickly note that it falls short of greatness. Even so, it’s got an impressive feature set for a task chair, including:

The armrests are height adjustable but otherwise uninspiring. They are simple T-shapes (not ergonomically designed) and only nominally padded. 

Also, note that the chair does not recline at all, but it allows the person sitting in it to roll back and forth slightly, which is something. Oddly enough, this chair boasts a 300-pound user weight limit, higher than the more expensive chairs in the company’s lineup.  

We can’t say why Komene didn’t make that the standard and offer the expanded weight limit on all its chairs. That strikes us as a missed opportunity, though. Had they done so, their other chairs would have appealed to a broader market segment and probably scored nominally higher.

In any case, as task chairs go, this is a pretty good one. We still can’t recommend it because of the very real issues the brand has, but credit where credit is due; all of Komene’s office chairs are decent, if a bit on the pricey side, given the relatively low-end materials used in their construction.

Pros & Cons of Komene Office Chair

While each of the three chairs sold by Komene has features we like, we cannot recommend any of them in good conscience.

The value segment of the office furniture market is a bustling, thriving space with literally dozens of office chair companies selling comparable products. Most of those alternative companies don’t have Amazon Sales Pages littered with problematic entries. We believe there’s no valid reason to take a chance on any of these chairs with so many other options.

Leaving aside the brand issues, here are the things we think you’ll like best about Komene’s chairs in general:

Unfortunately, those things are countered by the fact that the production quality of all these chairs leaves much to be desired. The materials used in constructing the elements designed to support user weight (the base, the gas lift, and the tilt/lock mechanisms on two of the models) are substandard and will probably start showing their age much sooner than you’d like.

In addition, they tend to be a bit pricey. Combine that with the aforementioned brand problems, and it’s hard to justify a purchase here.

Komene Office Chairs Review Conclusion

When you look through the Komene Brand page, it appears they have upwards of a dozen chairs for sale. Unfortunately, most of these entries appear to have problems associated with them. On the face of it, they seem to be selling chairs, but on closer review, they’re associated with low-value products.

Of the chairs the company does sell, we regard them as decent but overpriced. The various strengths of each model are overshadowed by the problems the brand as a whole has.

Even in the absence of problematic entries on their sales page, the fact that the company sells such a mishmash of products, including beanies and push-up bras, doesn’t inspire much confidence in us where the company’s long-term viability as a major player in the office furniture market is concerned.

We’re certainly not saying that companies can’t have multiple product lines and still manage to produce good products; of course, they can. It happens all the time! 

Unfortunately, when you combine their scattershot approach to products, the small number of them, the fact that the Komene Office Chairs hasn’t been around very long, and the fact that their brand page is filled with “problematic” entries, we feel that our lack of confidence is entirely justified.

We do not recommend buying from Komene now, though we’ll be happy to reevaluate the brand if and when they clean up their brand page on Amazon. That’s unfortunate because all three of the chairs they offer show promise.

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REFERENCES & RESOURCES

• Komene, Official Brand Site.
• Why Prolonged Sitting Is Bad for Your Health, Time.
• How to Fix/make Sinking Office Chair Reusable, Instructables.
• Too Much Sitting Is As Bad For The Brain As It Is For The Body: Study, Forbes.
• Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain — Not Just Your Metabolism or Heart, ScienceDaily.