Steelcase Amia Chair Review: The Little Brother to the Leap Chair

Steelcase's Amia Chair brings a sleek modern look to any office setting.

The Steelcase Amia chair is the little brother to the Leap chair and uses some of the same lie back and special arm technology that you get from the more expensive models. It also is warranted for 24/7 use for someone up to 300 lbs and with all the points of adjustments, it’s a really great choice from anyone from a very petite woman to a larger man. The Steelcase Amia Chair has just a couple points of manual adjustments so that you can set them and leave the chair to do the rest of the work. First of all, you got your seat height as well as your seat depth. Each of these has a very wide range of adjustments to fit the broadest range of the population as possible. The rest of the work is going to be done by the chair’s dynamic back which actually follows with your body as you move. You have the ability to set the tension on this so that it can fit better with your weight and your preferences for recline. One thing that’s really nice on this chair is the one-piece lumbar adjustment. It actually travels about 6 inches and that allows you to set that right into at your lumbar at your lower back. Our favorite part about the Steelcase Amia chair is the fore way arms. This is the same arm that’s used on the more expensive Leap and Think chairs and they adjust up and down, in and out, backwards and forwards, and 30 degrees in each direction.

The biggest difference between the Leap and the Amia chairs is the way that the lie back technology is implemented. Both of the chairs are going to have a dynamic recline with you but you’ll find that on the Leap, it will actually track along with both your shoulders and your lumbar as you move back and forth. The Amia chair doesn’t have as much of a flex in the back, so as you lean backwards you don’t have any motion here in the shoulders and you don’t have anything that is going to bow along with your lumbar support. Overall, at about two-thirds of the cost of the Leap chair, the Steelcase Amia has one of the widest feature sets available at its price range. With the dynamic back and our favorite arms on the market, the chair is highly recommended.