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Three chairs share one drawing. Core comes all in mesh, seat included; with a mesh back and a padded seat; or fully upholstered, back and seat alike. Behind each stands the same frame in glass-fibre-reinforced polyamide, the same height-adjustable back and the same lumbar support, set in depth and covered to go with the back. A buyer filling a floor with ergonomic office chairs for teams can therefore vary the surface from one department to the next and keep a single chair on the asset register.
Luxy's R&D team designed Core and released it as a 2026 novelty, speaking of simple form and advanced ergonomics. The mechanism is synchronised, with a sliding seat. Every build is offered on a black or white frame with a nylon base, or on a copper or blue frame whose aluminium base is painted the same shade. In the maker's photographs the chairs stand at open-plan workstation clusters, in line, monitor after monitor.
Which build goes where is a matter of the working day, and it deserves more thought than the colour. Beyond the three, Luxy adds a managerial version for executive offices: upholstered, on a black structure with a chromed aluminium base, chromed castors and arms that are either five-way adjustable or fixed. La Mercanti has two people from the team sit on a mesh seat and a padded one before it suggests a build, because that choice is made by sitting, not by reading.
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Exactly the same as one without. Luxy gives a footprint of 70 × 70 cm for every model, with or without headrest, managerial version included. Only the height moves: 122-135 cm with the headrest, 103-116 cm without. For a facility team laying out workstations this is convenient, since the spacing between desks can be fixed first and the choice between configurations left open until the people who will sit there have been asked.
The height of the backrest. On Core the backrest can be raised or lowered, and Luxy names the system up-down; the brochure calls the adjustment simple and intuitive. It matters most where a chair has more than one user in a day, at shared desks or across shifts, because a tall person and a short one need the curve of the backrest in different places. The lumbar support is then adjusted separately, in depth, by its knob.
MemoFoam is the name Luxy gives to the padded seat it presents in the Core brochure, as the new seat that carries the Luxy signature. The brochure describes it as made for those who spend long hours at the desk, with an “enveloping softness” and precise support. Those are the manufacturer's words, and sitting on it is the only fair test. The technical data Luxy states for the padded seat is hot-moulded, fire-retardant foam at a density of 55 kg/m³.
The colour of the structure decides. A black or white structure comes on a five-star nylon base in black or white. A copper or blue structure comes on a die-cast aluminium base, powder-painted in that same colour. The managerial version stands on chromed aluminium. The base is therefore a consequence of the first choice you make, and a floor ordered in two structure colours will show two kinds of base. Worth knowing before the colours are approved.
Core has a synchronised mechanism: backrest and seat recline together. It locks in 4 positions, the tension is preset in 3 positions, and the release carries an anti-shock function, which the brochure links to smooth and safe use. A seat slide with 7 cm of travel belongs to the same mechanism. For a purchase manager that means one mechanism across every configuration, the managerial version included, and one set of instructions for the whole office.
Before the chairs arrive, look down. Core rolls on 65 mm self-braking castors chosen by floor type, can stand on glides instead, and needs a 70 × 70 cm square at every desk.
Every Core runs on self-braking castors 65 mm in diameter. On the task versions they are rubber-tyred, black or white to follow the base; on the managerial version they are chromed and hollow. Note which base each chair has, because the castor colour follows from it.
As standard, Luxy supplies the rubber-tyred castor for hard floors. That covers surfaces such as vitrified tile, stone and laminate, so an order for those floors needs nothing added. Walk the floor all the same and list any room finished differently.
For textile floors Luxy provides a different castor on request. The request belongs in the order itself: a training room or a carpeted wing should be named room by room, with the number of chairs, so that the right castor is ordered together with the chair.
Where a chair should not roll at all, Luxy lists a kit of 5 glides for the base, in chrome, white or black. It suits positions where the chair is meant to stay put. Match the glide finish to the base and count the kits desk by desk, one kit for each chair.
Each chair occupies 70 × 70 cm, whichever configuration is chosen. Mark that square behind every desk, then add the room a person needs to push away and stand. Floor boxes and cable trays that fall inside the square are worth moving before the castors find them.
