The Bambach Saddle Seat is shaped like a saddle to enable the body to maintain ideal posture when sitting. With the Saddle Seat there is no need for lumbar support because the correct lumbar curve is maintained naturally rather than artificially. The seat provides all the adjustments to allow the sitter to find a "natural" spinal position. The Bambach Saddle Seat has a tilt adjustment so that the seat can accommodate varying pelvic positions in order to achieve maximum correct spinal posture.

The Bambach Saddle Seat Models...


The Bambach Saddle Seat with Back $995
Prices: Australian Dollars AUD
Photos: All chair images on this page by Bambach

The back rest on the seat is optional being used purely as a "rest" and adjusts for height and angle. Ideal for an office task seat.

 


The Bambach Saddle Seat without Back $850

The Saddle Seat without a back is ideal for dentists, hairdressers, surgeons, etc, as it is easy to move around workstations where room is restricted.

 


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The Executive Bambach Saddle Seat - Extra Wide
With Back $1150 / Without Back $950
For heavier people with broader hips.

 


The Bambach Saddle Seat with Surgeon's Foot Operated Lift without Back $1095

This foot operated lift fits under the five star base on any standard height Saddle Seat. Once the tilt is adjusted, all other adjustments are operated by foot control, leaving hands free and sterile. Suitable for use in hospitals and clean room areas of factories.

 


The Bambach Saddle Seat with Drafting Foot Ring With Back $1055 / Without Back $910

The drafting foot ring can be used on either a seat with a back or a seat without a back. The drafting foot ring is useful for architects, artists, draftspersons, in research laboratories where microscopes are used, etc. It enables the user to work at a height higher than the normal workbench and still retain the pelvis in the upright, neutral position.


The Bambach Saddle Seat - Narrow Cutdown Style
With Back $1020 / Without Back $875

The Saddle Seat with a cutdown design is ideal for children and small adults who need to reduce abduction. More modest for shorter skirts.

 


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The Bambach Saddle Seat - Small Child's Seat
With Back $995 / Without Back $850
For younger children

Special Needs...

Bambach Saddle Seat configuration options are available for Disabled and Special Needs on request, such as saddle seats with a carpeted plywood base, adjustable trunk support with clip belt and safety non swivel solid stems, etc. These custom seats are particularly stable and provide posture support for children with Cerebral Palsy. (Price on application.)

Saddle Seat Covers...

Cloth seat covers are available in Navy or Black $25.
Sheepskin seat covers available in Black, Charcoal or Grey $160 (Executive size only in black $175).


Bambach Saddle Seat Delivery Cost...

Full packaging and handling and Registered Australia Post delivered to your door anywhere in Australia is $30.

 


Joanna loves her Bambach Saddle Seat

Authorised Distributor...

Joanna Terpstra is an official distributor for Bambach, the amazing chair for people who care about their backs!

Yes, you can purchase direct from Joanna and have your Bambach Saddle Seat delivered to your door within a week after direct deposit payment into the following St George Bank account:

Contact Joanna on 02 6647 7262 to find out more, or simply fill in the contact form below:

 

"The Saddle Seat works very well for me when I am painting. No longer do I have to raise the easel up and down as the seat has a great range of height control." -Pro Hart (artist, Broken Hill, Australia)

"The correct horse riding attitude is almost the perfect posture for the back to disperse weight...the low back assumes the optimum alignment to ride out shock and balance the upper body over the pelvis." -Sarah Key (physiotherapist, author of "Sarah Key's Back Sufferers' Bible", Sarah Key Physiotherapy Centre, London & Australia)


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Designed, patented and manufactured in Australia, the amazing Bambach Saddle Seat is available at Joanna Terpstra's Studio Gallery for you to view and sit on!

 


Joanna sitting on her Bambach Saddle Seat

"I have suffered back problems while painting, having been laid up for weeks in pain with osteoarthritis of the lower lumbar vertebrae as well as having fibromyalgia.

The Bambach Saddle Seat has allowed me to sit in comfort as well as being able to raise the chair's height which allows me to reach the higher parts of the painting while remaining seated as I "step back" from the painting. I can now actively walk-sit in optimal posture.

I am so relieved to be able to paint again without pain that I have now become a distributor of the Bambach Saddle Seat." -Joanna Terpstra

 


Joanna's Bambach Saddle Seat at her studio workbench with standard gas lift stem fully extended to standing position.

 

Bambach Saddle Seat Information...

The Bambach Saddle Seat is designed to promote optimal seated posture in the human spine. A person sitting on a Saddle Seat automatically assumes the position that produces least stress for muscles, ligaments and joints, thus relieving stress on the lumbar discs and spine because the pelvis is properly positioned and stabilised. The pelvis is central and critical to correct spinal position because of the way it is attached to the spine by muscles and ligaments. Its position actually controls the curvature of the spine, and this, in turn, is pivotal to how much stress is induced on the spine when someone is seated. (Download the Bambach Rehabilitation.pdf for postural diagrams.)

The Bambach Saddle Seat is comfortable, and it provides a wide range of adjustments to help the individual find the most natural, comfortable sitting position. With the Saddle Seat, feet are able to have floor contact, the weight of the legs can be taken through the feet and the feet used to mobilise the whole body, allowing easy movement around a workstation. The Saddle Seat permits the pelvis to be held securely in its natural position so that, when leaning forward to work, the lean is from the hips and not the waist.

Mary Gale designed the award winning seat, combining her years of experience as an occupational therapist, horse rider and riding teacher to solve the problem of how to achieve correct posture while sitting at a task. Together with three colleagues, Mary researched studies on posture worldwide. The findings supported her theory that a person's spine is held in its natural curve with less stress when seated in a saddle. This prompted her to design a seat, based on the design of a saddle, for everyday use in the work place as well as for use with disabled people.

The benefits of the Saddle Seat have been validated around the world, even hailed (by some professionals at the University of Vermont) as the most revolutionary change in seating seen in a century.

In 1998 The Bambach Saddle Seat won two major awards in the U.S.A., the first being The Adex award for Ergonomic Task Seating, and the second a Silver Award at NeoCon for Design Excellence for Desk/Workstation Task Chairs.

 

Bambach Saddle Seat Options...

All Bambach Saddle seats come with:

  • Five year warranty on all parts
  • Seat Tilt
  • Your choice of vinyl colours (or wool in Navy or Black)
  • Your choice of height adjustable gas stems for different heights of the user
  • Black 5 star base (chrome base optional)
  • Your choice of twin wheel hooded castors for different needs and floor types
  • 30 day money back guarantee


In your choice of vinyl colours
(or wool in Navy or Black):

Colour Names:

  • Spearmint (light green)
  • Teal (dark green)
  • Sky Blue (light blue)
  • Balmain Blue (dark blue)
  • Cinder (light grey)
  • Storm (dark grey)
  • Musk (warm pale brown)
  • Burnt Rose (burgundy)
  • Beige (buff)
  • Black
  • White


The price of the Bambach Saddle Seat includes the various types of castors for different floor surfaces, and stems for different heights of the user.


Castors:

  • Standard Castors for carpet or concrete floor
  • Soft Castors for timber, tile or vinyl floor
  • Friction/Braking Castors, lock when you stand up
  • Reverse Friction Castors, lock when you sit
  • Locking castors, locked when lever lifted by foot, for carpet floor
  • Pull-Apart Castors, can be dismantled for cleaning, for vinyl, concrete or carpet floor
  • Glides Castors, stable, no movement, for carpet or vinyl floor


Gas Stems:

  • LOW 100mm, chair height 460mm - 545mm, suggested for persons below 5'2''
  • MEDIUM 140mm, chair height 485mm - 610mm
  • STANDARD 200mm, chair height 540mm - 730mm, suggested for persons between 5'2'' to 6'
  • DRAFTING 270mm, chair height 650mm - 900mm, suggested for persons above 6' and for those working at high benches (the Drafting Foot Ring is recommended at this height)



Joanna's Bambach Saddle Seat in her studio office with standard gas lift stem lowered to sitting position and base fitted with soft castors for control on the timber floor. Vinyl colour is "Burnt Rose".