Move over, Herman Miller and Haworth—Toyota is breaking into the high-end office furniture scene with its own offering: a desk chair modeled after the Toyota Crown’s driver seat. Development was led by Toyota’s automotive interiors subsidiary Toyota Boshoku, with technical cooperation from office furniture company Itoki.
Toyota Boshoku’s goal with the Toyota Crown desk chair was to take the expertise it has honed through developing interior and seating for Toyota vehicles over the years, and apply it in a new environment: the office and living space.
To reflect the different seats available in the Toyota Crown depending on trim, the leather-wrapped desk chairs are offered in different variants as well. ‘Sporty’ has a more conventional seat design and multiple color options, while the ‘Sport’ showcases a racing bucket-inspired structure but can only be had in black.
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Toyota Boshoku didn’t stop at just recreating the seat’s structure—it has managed to directly translate much of the Crown’s comfort functions into the desk chair. This includes power-assisted recline, lift, and tilt, and even a three-stage heating and ventilation function.
While the seat will need to be plugged in to an outlet to make use of its power-assisted features, an internal rechargeable battery is built in to offer some untethered time (official figures for this feature haven’t been released).
Attention to detail for the Crown desk chair goes so far as to include the seatbelt buckle, which now houses a USB-C port for charging devices from the previously mentioned internal battery. Yes, we live in a time where chairs can have V2L (or S2L?) capabilities.
The Toyota Crown-inspired desk chairs are part of ‘The Crown Collection’ to be distributed in Toyota’s specialty retail network ‘The Crown,’ which specializes in—you guessed it—products for, related to, or inspired by the executive sedan.
Preorders run from April 23rd to June 27th this year, with deliveries estimated to begin around September. The seats will be a limited run of just 70 units; a lottery will be held for the privilege to place an order should demand exceed that number. And yes, these are exclusive to Japan, with an eye-watering price tag that starts at ¥495,000, or just under P190,000.
