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Three mechanisms usually mean three drawings. Skipper by Sitland prints one: seat height 15.7 to 20.5 in, overall height 39.4 to 44.7 in, seat depth 16.9 to 19.7 in, base 26.8 in across, the same for Syncro, Syncro Plus and Swing. For anyone laying out swivel task chairs, that is the useful part: desk spacing decided once, mechanism afterward, person by person.
What changes is how the chair moves: Syncro, Syncro Plus with its micrometric adjustment and five lock positions, Swing on an open structure. All three share the mesh backrest with its height-adjustable lumbar support, the seat in fabric or mesh, and a frame in black, sandstone, lichen green/grey, brownish red or anthracite with a matched mesh: Sitland's first colored task chair, from the Sitland research and development center.
The order splits by headrest. Without one, Skipper is a mesh back on a colored frame; with a mesh headrest, one texture top to bottom; with an upholstered one, a cushion. Either adjusts in height, tilts, and wears the frame color on its structure; each takes any mechanism, 2D black or 4D frame-colored armrests. The Sitland images seat four of them at a bench in open-plan workstations and six at a long meeting table, where a task chair can pull up too. La Mercanti writes the mechanism next to each workstation on the floor plan, so the installer reads one sheet for the whole order.
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Swing is the third option Sitland lists for Skipper and the one that reads differently on the technical page: a self-weight synchronized mechanism with an open structure, the leaf-spring type the Italian and Spanish brochure texts name, and a single lock position. Self-weight means the backrest answers the weight of whoever sits down; the open structure is what the brochure calls out as the difference from Syncro, which locks in the working position in the same way. Swing is the version for the user who wants free movement more than fixed angles: one lock, and otherwise the chair follows you.
The figure sits on the sustainability page of the Skipper brochure next to three companions: 78 % recyclable at end of life, 50 % recycled materials, 100 % repairable, 100 % disassemblable. Sitland pairs it with the material split, plastics 78 %, metals 16 %, polyurethane 4 %, polyester 2 %, which gives the recyclable share its context: what the chair is made of. The number should be quoted as Sitland's own declaration for this chair and nothing wider; for a buyer with a circularity target it is a usable line, as long as it stays attached to the three figures around it.
Syncro Plus is the Skipper mechanism for the person who wants to decide how the chair sits. The brochure gives it a synchronized movement with micrometric adjustment and a lock in five positions, against the single working-position lock of Syncro and Swing. Five positions means the recline can be held at an angle of your choosing rather than one; micrometric is Sitland's word for the fineness of that adjustment. Where people keep their own desk and hold opinions about their chair, it is the version that gets used; on a bench that changes hands, the extra positions may go untouched.
Three fabrics in the Sitland proposal for the Skipper seat carry a recycled declaration from their mills. Chili by Gabriel is 100 % post-consumer recycled polyester, flame retardant; Foster by Vescom is 97 % recycled FR polyester with 3 % FR polyester; Xtreme Plus by Camira is 100 % recycled polyester, flame retardant. The percentages are the mills' own and describe the seat cover only: the backrest is always mesh, and the chair's own recycled share is a separate figure on another page. Which fabric goes with which frame color follows the Sitland program, so the collection goes on the order.
On the sustainability page of the Skipper brochure, in a box of its own: 5 years warranty, declared by Sitland. It shares the page with the line declaring the chair repairable, and the two read together: a five-year term makes sense on a product the maker expects to open and fix rather than replace. The conditions are Sitland's, and La Mercanti attaches them to the offer as they stand, without rewording. A specification should quote the term and point to the manufacturer's conditions rather than paraphrase them.
Five decisions turn Skipper from a catalog name into a chair that can be built: mechanism, frame color, seat cover, armrests, headrest. Take them in this order and the line on the order reads the way Sitland reads it.
Skipper is ordered as Syncro, Syncro Plus or Swing, and that word comes first on the line: it decides how the chair behaves under the person, and nothing else about the chair changes with it. Frame, seat, armrests and headrest are chosen the same way whichever of the three is written down, so the mechanism can be picked per person rather than per floor, and a mixed order stays one product.
The second word is the frame: black, sandstone, lichen green/grey, brownish red or anthracite. It covers the backrest frame, the base, the 4D armrests when chosen, and the headrest structure, with the backrest mesh matched to it by Sitland. Write the color as the brochure spells it: Amarone and brownish red are one finish under two names, and an order that mixes them invites a question.
The backrest is mesh on every Skipper; the seat is where you choose. A mesh seat gives one material top to bottom, from the meshes Sitland proposes for the chair. A fabric seat comes from the fabric collection chosen among those Sitland proposes. Name collection and shade on the line, because which cover goes with which frame color follows the Sitland program, not the order form.
Two armrest options exist and they differ in color. The 2D armrest comes in black only. The 4D armrest comes in black or in the frame color, the choice that makes a lichen or brownish red chair read as one piece. State 2D or 4D and, for 4D, black or frame color. In the detail photographs the 4D arm carries a black top over a colored arm, so even the matched version keeps a dark pad.
The last word is yes or no on the headrest, and then mesh or upholstered. It adjusts in height and tilts, and its structure takes the frame color, so a chair ordered with it stays one color. Write it as a separate line per workstation rather than a note on the order, because in a mixed order some desks want it and some do not, and the installer needs to see which.
