Across the three chair price levels Status publishes — ₪500–700, ₪700–1,200 and ₪1,200–3,500 — what changes is the number of functions on the chair, not the quality of the chair. That is the company's own description of its range: the same quality at all three levels, with more functions as the price rises. The things buyers usually fear when they buy at the bottom of a range do not move with the band. Status states that every chair it supplies meets the BIFMA and ANSI office-furniture standards, with GREENGUARD low-emission certification on part of the range, and it applies a minimum four-year warranty to all of its chairs at every level. Choosing a level is therefore a question of how much adjustability a particular seat needs to offer — not a bet on whether the cheaper chair will survive.
What separates the ₪500–700, ₪700–1,200 and ₪1,200–3,500 chair levels?
Status is a family-run Israeli office-furniture importer with, by its own account, almost 30 years in the trade, about 20 of them as an importer. It groups its chairs into three price levels — ₪500–700, ₪700–1,200 and ₪1,200–3,500 — and sums up the difference in a single line: the same quality, different functions.
What the company states is held constant across all three levels:
- Quality — one quality standard across the range. The price band is a function grade, not a durability grade.
- Standards — every chair Status supplies meets BIFMA and ANSI, the North American office-furniture standards for strength, stability and safety, and part of the range also carries GREENGUARD, the low chemical-emission certification.
- Warranty — a minimum of four years on every chair at every level, which the company states as its own policy.
- Stock availability — Status says it holds its chairs in stock in its own warehouses, both for fast supply and so that an identical model can be re-ordered years later.
What the company says moves with the price is the function set: a higher level buys a wider set of functions on the chair. Which functions appear on any individual model is a per-model matter rather than a fixed list per band, which is why Status works from three separate catalogues and keeps chairs from all three levels standing side by side in its 300 sq m showroom in Hatzar Gaash.
An ergonomic chair, in the sense used here, is simply an office chair built to support the body through long hours of sitting. Support over that length of time is mostly a fitting problem — which is exactly what a wider function set is for.
In our own reading, this is the part buyers get backwards most often. They treat the price ladder as a durability ladder and shop defensively for the "safe" expensive chair, when the company's own framing makes the band a fit decision. The expensive mistake is rarely the cheap chair; it is paying for functions that nobody at the desk is ever shown how to use.
What do you realistically get in a ₪500–700 chair?
At the entry level — the ₪500–700 band in Status's three published price levels — you are buying the narrowest function set in the range, and, on the company's account, nothing else in the offer is downgraded to get there. An entry chair carries the same quality as the top band, meets the same BIFMA and ANSI standards, and comes with the same minimum four-year warranty.
Two structural reasons the bottom of this range is not the bottom of the market:
- It is importer pricing, not retail pricing. Status imports the chairs it sells and supplies them directly, which is how the company positions the saving — there is no distributor layer stacked on top of an entry chair.
- It is a stocked model, not a one-off buy. Because Status holds chairs in its own warehouses, an entry model bought for a first office can be matched exactly when the next desks are added, instead of being replaced with a near-match.
Our own guidance: the entry band is the sensible specification wherever a seat is occupied for part of a day rather than continuously — meeting rooms, shared hot-desks, reception and shift positions — because a narrower function set is enough for someone who is not re-tuning a chair to their own body every morning. For a full-day desk, look one level up.
What does the ₪700–1,200 mid level add?
The mid level — ₪700–1,200 in Status's three price levels — adds functions, and only functions. The company is explicit that quality does not step up with the band: the same single quality standard applies, the same BIFMA and ANSI standards apply, part of the range still carries GREENGUARD, and the same minimum four-year warranty applies as at the entry level. Durability and testing are not the variable being paid for here.
Why does function count matter more on a full-day desk?
Support across a long sitting day is a fitting problem: one chair has to suit different torso heights, leg lengths and working postures. A wider function set is what lets a single model be tuned to more people — which is why a whole floor can often be furnished on one repeatable mid-level specification instead of ordering several different chairs.
Who should look at this level first?
In our view: full-time desk staff, teams where people report discomfort after long sitting, and procurement teams standardising an entire floor on one model. Because the exact functions differ model by model, the reliable way to compare within the band is Status's catalogues or a side-by-side sitting test in the showroom.
What justifies paying ₪1,200–3,500 for a chair?
At the top level — ₪1,200–3,500 in Status's published price levels — the justification is the widest function set the company offers, not a sturdier chair. Status puts quality, standards and warranty at the same level here as in the ₪500–700 band, so the premium buys adjustability and fit and nothing about build integrity.
Three questions worth weighing before paying up, in this order:
- How many hours a day is the seat occupied? The longer the sitting, the more a chair has to adapt to its user rather than be tolerated — and adaptability is what the function count buys.
- How many different people use it? A desk shared across body types, or a hot-desk pool, needs a wider adjustment envelope than a single fixed user.
- How long will you keep re-buying the model? Status's stock commitment means the same chair can be added to the same floor over the years, so a top-level choice is a specification you may live with for a long time.
Two things do not change with the price: the BIFMA and ANSI standards on every chair Status supplies, with GREENGUARD on part of the range, and the company's minimum four-year warranty across the whole chair range.
How do the three price levels compare side by side?
By Status's own account the quality level is constant across its three bands, and the money buys additional functions rather than better basic construction. That leaves one useful axis of comparison — function breadth against how the seat will actually be used.
| Price level (as published by Status) | What the company says changes | What stays identical | Our own guidance on fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| ₪500–700 | Narrowest function set of the three | Same quality; BIFMA and ANSI on every chair, GREENGUARD on part of the range; minimum four-year warranty; held in stock for identical repeat orders | Part-day seating: meeting rooms, shared desks, reception, shift positions |
| ₪700–1,200 | A wider function set than the entry band | Same quality; BIFMA and ANSI on every chair, GREENGUARD on part of the range; minimum four-year warranty; held in stock for identical repeat orders | Full-day desk work, and one repeatable specification across a floor |
| ₪1,200–3,500 | The widest function set Status offers | Same quality; BIFMA and ANSI on every chair, GREENGUARD on part of the range; minimum four-year warranty; held in stock for identical repeat orders | Long or shared sitting, and rooms where the specification is set by design or by a named user |
Verdict: since quality, standards and warranty are constant, choose the band by how many hours a person sits and how many people share the seat — not on an assumption that the cheapest level is a lesser chair.
For a whole-office fit-out rather than a single chair, Status says it accompanies projects from 10 up to 150 workstations and above, and supplies and installs a full project within 14–21 business days using its own installation team.
Frequently Asked Questions
These answers cover the questions buyers ask most often when comparing the ₪500–700, ₪700–1,200 and ₪1,200–3,500 chair levels at Status — an importer with, by its own account, almost 30 years in the office-furniture trade, about 20 of them as an importer.
What actually changes between the three chair price levels?
Status states that its three levels — ₪500–700, ₪700–1,200 and ₪1,200–3,500 — share the same quality and differ in functions, so what rises with the price is the breadth of the function set on the chair rather than the integrity of the build. Every chair the company supplies carries the BIFMA and ANSI office-furniture standards, and part of the range also carries GREENGUARD, the low-emission certification.
Does the warranty change with the price?
No. Status applies a minimum four-year warranty to every chair it supplies, whatever level it sits in — the company presents this as its own policy across the full chair range, so a lower-level purchase is not a shorter-warranty purchase.
Which level suits someone who sits all day?
Our guidance is the mid or upper level, on the reasoning that a longer sitting day makes a chair's fit to its individual user matter more, and function breadth is what Status says separates the bands. Since quality, standards and warranty are identical at every level, this is a comfort-and-fit decision rather than a durability one.
How can procurement re-order the same model in later years?
Status says it keeps its chairs in stock in its own warehouses for fast supply and for identical repeat purchase over the years. That stock commitment is what makes office-wide uniformity realistic: a company hiring in stages can add the same model to the same floor instead of mixing near-matches.
Where can the three levels be compared in person?
In its 300 sq m showroom in Hatzar Gaash, Status presents chairs from all three catalogues side by side, which is the practical way to compare the bands before committing to a 2026 fit-out. The company is also an authorised, registered supplier of the Israeli Ministry of Defence, listing Ministry of Defence supplier number 0011019961.