LiberNovo’s Maxis Sale Opens a Window for Bigger Sitters

LiberNovo will cut its Maxis Manual chair to $939 when the Fall Prime Sale opens on September 30, 28% under the $1,299 list. The Hong Kong brand sized that frame for people from 5’10” to 6’7″ and loads up to 399 pounds.

Herman Miller already sells a Size C in that same height band. The gap Maxis is chasing is a deeper seat pan and a higher load rating, not a new height range.

The Sitter Between 5’10” and 6’7″

LiberNovo announced Maxis on May 12 and put it on sale on June 16, after arguing that most ergonomic chairs still start from an average body and then get stretched. In that launch note the company said taller, heavier professionals get pushed into seats that run narrow, backrests that stop short, and pans that leave legs hanging.

Big and tall users have long been pushed into chairs that run too narrow, too short in the backrest, and leave legs dangling off undersized seat pans.

LiberNovo, Maxis series launch announcement, May 12, 2026

The product page keeps that brief in hardware. A 52 cm seat and 399 lb rating sit on a backrest 16.9 inches across the shoulders and 20.5 inches at the waist, with 24.8 inches from the seat to the top of the back. The headrest travels 5.5 inches up and down and 4.7 inches forward and back. Arc armrests move 5.1 inches fore and aft, 5.0 inches in height, and 15.7 to 23.6 inches in width.

In July the brand asked the same question in public, almost word for word: most office chairs are designed for one average size, and Maxis exists because shoulders, thighs and necks do not share that average.

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— LiberNovo (@LiberNovo) July 2, 2026

Owners who have lived with the smaller Omni line for months tend to stack it against Herman Miller and Steelcase and come back to the price, with a few fit tweaks still on the list. Maxis is the SKU aimed at the people those average chairs never quite covered.

Fall Sale Prices Sit Above Summer’s Early Bird

On September 24 the US product pages still showed Maxis Manual at $1,119, Electric at $1,319 and Airflow at $1,701. Omni SE was $788, Omni Gen $1,019 and Omni Pro $1,109. Those are holding prices, not the September 30 open.

LiberNovo’s own July launch window already printed Maxis from $809, Omni SE from $569 and Omni Pro from $909. The Fall open puts Maxis Manual $130 above that summer floor. The 30-day price protection is how the company tells shoppers not to wait for the two flash days.

FALL PRIME SALE OPENING PRICES

The US cap on the event is 37%, reached on selected products on October 6 and 7. Airflow has no quoted opening price in the September 24 sale note, so that SKU is still a current-page figure of $1,701 until LiberNovo prints a cut. A free Omni battery with Maxis Electric runs only through September 30.

THE SALE CALENDAR

1. September 23, 2026: Business bulk ordering goes live, and Canada’s previous-gen Omni sale starts.
2. September 30, 2026: Fall Prime Sale opening prices, including Maxis Manual at $939.
3. October 6 and 7, 2026: Two-day flash on selected products, up to 37% off in the US.
4. October 14, 2026: Campaign window ends, per LiberNovo’s Fall Prime Sale materials.

Buy on September 30 and the 30-day price protection is supposed to refund the gap if the flash prints lower on a matching SKU. That is the mechanism that makes the milder open less of a trap, provided the deeper cut actually lands on the chair you ordered.

What a 52 cm Seat Changes for Long Thighs

Weight ratings in this class already cluster near 400 pounds. Steelcase’s Leap line is widely specced at 400. Secretlab’s Titan Evo XL is rated to 395 pounds and 5’11” to 6’9″. Herman Miller’s US store lists Aeron Size C at 350 pounds, with the same 5’10” to 6’7″ height guidance the UK store prints for Size C.

Maxis does not win that chart on load. It wins on pan depth. LiberNovo calls the seat 20.5 inches, which is 52 cm. Size C is listed at 18.5 inches deep on Herman Miller’s US store. Two inches of thigh support is the part of a tall sit that a higher gas cylinder cannot fake.

HOW THE FRAMES COMPARE

LiberNovo also claims a BIFMA-certified reinforced frame and a recline mechanism tested to 300,000 cycles, with the backrest and seat swivel at 120,000, the base and casters at 100,000, and the armrests at 60,000. Those are the company’s own test figures, not a third-party review score.

The recline itself runs 105 to 160 degrees through five locks. The pitch is a progressive, weight-sensitive arc that is not supposed to dump the sitter the way a cheap tension knob can. For a heavier body that drop is the failure mode people remember.

Manual, Electric and Airflow

One chassis, three ways to pay for the lumbar. All three share Graphite and Glacier, the aluminum base, and the 52 cm pan. The split is how much motor you want in a chair you may keep for the length of the frame warranty.

THE THREE MAXIS BUILDS

• Manual: A rotary lumbar dial, micro-elastic fabric, and the $939 open, the cheapest way into the big frame.
• Electric: Motorized lumbar plus OmniStretch, the guided recline stretch, at a $1,209 campaign open.
• Airflow: The electric package plus a sensor-driven seat fan and Danish Gabriel Atlantic cloth, listed at $1,701 until a sale price appears.

Airflow’s fan is rated up to 24 hours on low and 10 hours on high, and a seat sensor cuts the motor when you stand up. Gabriel Atlantic is specced above 100,000 to 120,000 abrasion rubs; the micro-elastic cloth on Manual and Electric is listed above 60,000. The battery that powers lumbar, stretch and fan is a separate spare on some bundles, which is how LiberNovo keeps a dead pack from parking the chair.

If you do not want a motor in the backrest, Manual is the SKU that still gets the pan, the flared base and the load rating. Electric and Airflow add failure points the six-year frame warranty will not cover, because electronics are on a two-year clock.

Canada Clears Previous-Gen Omni at 60% Off

The new Maxis line is not the only chair LiberNovo is moving. From September 23, Canadian shoppers can buy previous-generation Omni models, including Omni Moss Green, at C$1,399, which the company calls 60% off the original price. Each of those orders includes a StepSync footrest and a spare battery. The lot is while supplies last, with no restock planned.

That color was already being retired in August, when the brand said the last Moss Green Omni chairs were almost gone. The Canadian cut is the remainder bin for a chassis the 2026 Omni SE, Gen and Pro have replaced. It is a different shopper than the Maxis buyer: someone who wants the older Omni’s motion and will live with last year’s fabric and a dead colorway.

The Omni SE Dynamic Ergonomic Chair remains the US entry into that newer Omni stack, opening at $659 against a $899 list. Omni Gen at $939 and Omni Pro at $1,009 sit between that floor and Maxis Manual, which is how LiberNovo can put a 399-pound chair and a standard-frame chair on the same $939 rung and let the sitter’s femur length decide.

A Bulk Path for Orders of Five or More

Team ordering opened on September 23 for five chairs or more, across Omni and Maxis, chairs alone or with a footrest. Pricing tiers again at eleven units. LiberNovo timed that desk to how companies actually buy: autumn budgets, next year’s workstations, wellbeing programs locked before January.

October has been National Ergonomics Month since 2003, when the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society gave the month a name. NIOSH uses the same window to talk about tools and layouts that prevent common workplace musculoskeletal injuries, the back pain and strain that show up when a workstation does not match the body in it. LiberNovo’s sale copy treats the chair as the piece most hybrid offices still skipped after they upgraded screens and desks.

WHAT WE KNOW

• US window: Opening prices on September 30, flash on October 6 and 7, campaign materials running through October 14.
• Maxis Manual: $939 at the open, 28% under the $1,299 list, with 30-day price protection from day one.
• Canada remainder: Previous-gen Omni, including Moss Green, at C$1,399 with a footrest and spare battery, no restock.
• Bulk: Five to ten chairs, then eleven or more, live since September 23.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Flash SKUs: The September 24 note says selected products, not a full-line 37%.
• Airflow: No Fall open price has been printed next to the $1,701 page figure.
• Summer floor: Whether any Maxis SKU returns to the July $809 early-bird number on October 6 and 7.

Contiguous US orders ship free from a local warehouse in 4 to 8 business days, per the product page. That is the consumer path. The bulk path is a spreadsheet and a wellbeing budget, and it is why the brand opened team ordering a week before the public cut.

Six Years on the Frame, Two on the Motors

Maxis carries a six-year frame warranty and two years on electronics. Herman Miller’s US store still hangs a 12-year warranty on Aeron. The tall sitter who wants the 52 cm pan is being asked to trade a decade of coverage for two extra inches of seat and a 399-pound rating.

MAXIS AT A GLANCE

• Fit: 5’10” to 6’7″, up to 399 pounds, 52 cm seat.
• Open price: Manual $939 on September 30; Electric $1,209; Airflow still $1,701 on the page.
• Warranty: Six years on the frame, two years on the motors and fans.
• Recline: 105 to 160 degrees, five positions, progressive resistance.

For a sitter who already fits Size C and sits under 350 pounds, that trade is optional. For a sitter whose thighs run off an 18.5-inch pan, or whose weight sits between 350 and 399 pounds, Maxis is one of the few current frames that was drawn around that body instead of padded out from a medium. The September 30 open is not the lowest number LiberNovo has put on this chassis, and the flash days are where the 37% cap might finally match July. Price protection is the clause that makes ordering before October 6 a calculated wait rather than a guess.

The Canadian previous-gen lot carries no restock. When those Moss Green chairs go, that color goes with them.