A small shop for full-time remote workers
Ergonomic gear chosen for the way you actually work from home
Not a catalogue of office furniture resold online. A tight, deliberately short range of chairs and desk accessories, each one picked because it holds up through eight-hour days in a real apartment — with the reasoning written out on every listing.
Five chairs. Eleven accessories. Two people who answer the email.
01 — Standards
How we choose
Two people, one short list. We can't carry everything, so we only stock gear we'd put in our own home offices — and we tell you exactly what each piece had to clear before it earned a spot.
- 01
Eight hours, not eight minutes
One of us works a full week in every chair before it gets listed. Hour seven is where most of them quietly fall apart.
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It has to fit a real room
We measure against a 120cm desk in a spare bedroom, not a showroom floor. If it cannot tuck fully under, we say so in the first line.
- 03
Parts you can still buy in five years
Castors, gas lifts, armrest pads, mesh panels. If the supplier cannot sell us a spare today, the chair does not go in the range.
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A warranty we have actually used
We have filed at least one claim with every supplier we stock, and we will tell you how long it took them to answer.
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Priced where the money goes somewhere
Nothing is in the range only to make the next one up look reasonable. Five chairs, each one the honest answer to a different budget.
02 — Routes in
Shop by your setup
Start from your room and your workday rather than from a spec sheet. Each route leads to a short, filtered shortlist with the reasoning attached.
The spare-bedroom desk
Under 130cm of desk, a door that has to open. Narrow bases, chairs that tuck fully under.
See the shortlist →The kitchen-table shift
Everything packs away by six. Folding risers, a laptop stand that lives in a drawer.
See the shortlist →Six hours of calls a day
Headrests that take the weight off your neck, surfaces that do not drum into the mic.
See the shortlist →Standing for half the day
Anti-fatigue mats, monitor arms with genuine vertical travel, cable runs that survive the trip up.
See the shortlist →Taller or shorter than the spec sheet
Seat heights outside the usual 42–52cm, deeper and shallower pans, footrests that are not an afterthought.
See the shortlist →
03 — Reading
Ergonomics 101 — the guides behind the shop
We publish every week, because most ergonomic advice online is either a spec dump or a sales pitch. These guides are written to be useful even if you buy nothing from us.
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Fix your desk height before you spend on a chair
7 min - 02
Lumbar support is a measurement, not a feature
9 min - 03
Armrests: the adjustment almost nobody makes
6 min - 04
Monitor distance, and what the 20-20-20 rule misses
8 min - 05
When the £200 chair is genuinely the right answer
5 min
04 — Every listing
What every product page tells you
Every listing in the shop follows the same format: a one-line 'best for', the honest case against it, and the ergonomic reasoning in plain English. No spec dumps, no marketing adjectives we can't defend.
- Best for
- One line, written before anything else. If we cannot finish that sentence, the product does not get a page.
- The case against
- The real compromise — the squeak, the shallow pan, the three-week lead time. Written by whichever of us liked it least.
- Measurements that matter
- Seat height range, pan depth, backrest height, footprint with castors. The six numbers that decide whether it fits you.
- Who should skip this
- Named, specifically. Short torsos, tall rooms, standing desks, anyone under 1.6m.
- The cheaper thing we would buy instead
- Often from someone else. We would rather you spent well than spent here.
05 — The shop
A note from the two of us
Lanek Desk Supply is two people with split duties — one on curation and supplier vetting, one on the weekly guides and customer email. That's the whole company, and we think it's the reason the advice is worth reading. We don't carry hundreds of products because we couldn't honestly stand behind hundreds of products. When you email us, you get one of us, usually the same day during working hours. If a chair isn't right for your room or your back, we'll tell you — including when the answer is to buy nothing yet and fix your desk height first.
- MiraCuration, supplier vetting, the week-long sit tests.
- TomasThe weekly guides, every customer email, returns.
- Reply timeSame working day, from one of the two of us.
06 — Weekly
Setup guides and new arrivals, once a week
One email a week: a new ergonomics guide, and a note whenever something earns a place in the range — including what it replaced and why. Written by the two of us, unsubscribe in one click, and we never pass your address to a supplier.
Put me on the list07 — Opening soon
Join the waitlist
Be the first to get access. Drop your email and we'll reach out the moment we launch.
A short list, chosen for the way you actually work
Browse the range with the reasoning attached to every product, or email us your room size, desk height, and budget and we'll tell you honestly what's worth buying.