With the number of hours spent sitting down overly abundant, it’s no wonder that designers and manufacturers around the world are constantly challenging each other in the category of products to put your posterior. What follows here is a bind of the best inventions the 3rings staff has seen of late in contemporary seating. Park it for a few minutes more and read on!

1. One of the hottest reviews this week was Nic Roex’s clever recycled bench mashup of garden spades and bicycle wheels. He’s rather good looking too.

Batsenmeubel. Designed by Nic Roex.

2. Second in our weekly digest of the cooler innovations in seating that have popped up on the 3rings radar is the Highway Q/R gargantuan splotch lounge seater by Bartoli Design for Segis. Caution: Wet Paint!

Highway Q/R. Designed by Bartoli Design for Segis.

3. Design heavyweight Hannes Wettstein has done it again, this time for Dietiker Switerland with the Lamina chair, an ultra-sexy molded plywood swivel seat for the worker bee who refuses to compromise neither style nor comfort at the office.

Lamina Chair. Designed by Hannes Wettstein for Dietiker Switzerland.

4. And last but not least is Knoll’s Generation Chair, a color-punchy aerated task chair guaranteed to earn you style street cred and bound to earn you authority in any office setting.

Stay tuned for heavy NeoCon ’09 pre-show coverage of hot new releases next week!

Generation Chair. Manufactured by Knoll.