Kore Design LLC

What Kore Design is and where it sells

Kore Design LLC makes wobble chairs, a mobile sit-stand student desk and a balance disc, and it calls itself "The Leader in Active Sitting." Its About page says the chair is "now sold to schools and offices all across the US," that "sales continue to grow in other countries," and that Kore is sold to over 1,000 schools, institutions and businesses across the USA. The home page announces that Kore Design is now part of the Novelty Manufacturing Co. family, and the About page dates the acquisition of the Kore Design brand to June 2026, with a press release linked from both pages.

The site is a catalog more than a shop. Each product group carries a "buy" link, and the pages send buyers to "Buying Options" and to a list the site introduces as "trusted retailers & distributors." The sports and fitness page says Kore keeps its products "budget-friendly" and that buyers "can easily purchase any items and have them delivered to your home," but the pages themselves show no prices, delivery terms or return terms, so a buyer compares cost at whichever retailer the Buying Options page points to.

The wobble chair range

The range is sized by age, and the model names carry the heights in inches. The fixed-height chairs are the (12") Pre-School Wobble Chair, the (14") Kids Wobble Chair, the (16") Junior Wobble Chair and the (18.7") Pre-Teen Wobble Chair. The adjustable chairs are the Kids Adjustable Standard (14" to 19"), the Kids Adjustable Tall (16.5" to 24"), the Teen/College Standard Adjustable Chair (18" to 25") and the Teen/College Hi-Rise Adjustable Chair (21" to 31.5"). For adults there are two: the Office PLUS Everyday Chair, adjustable from 18.5" to 26.75", and the Office PLUS Sit-Stand Chair, adjustable from 21.5" to 32". The site says the teen chairs are meant to "give students of all heights a chance to experience the freedom of active sitting," and that the Office PLUS pair is "specifically designed to keep adults physically and mentally active when they are sitting or standing at a desk."

The menu adds a Scoop Rocker under alternative flexible seating, a Kids Sit-Stand Mobile Student Desk and a larger Sit-Stand Mobile Student Desk, each offered in black, blue, green, grey and red. The Floor Wobbler balance disc, which the site calls a "Core Workout Exercise Disc," comes in black, blue, dark blue, grey, orange and red. The line also runs to a few items outside seating: a Freedom Net replacement basketball net and the Kore Body Fluid Solidifier, which the site describes as "safe, all-natural, odor eliminating" and pitches for classroom cleanup. There is a Size Charts link in the menu for matching a chair to a child. The sports page pitches the adjustable wobble chair and the balance disc to people who work from home and have little time to exercise, as a way to keep moving at the desk, and suggests adding cardio such as a treadmill or bike alongside.

What the company says about the design

The home page lists its own "Kore Wobble Chair Benefits": the chairs are made with a gently-rounded base, the base design encourages a gentle rocking action, the chairs have "anti-tip safety" and are "made from antimicrobial materials." A product family page describes "award winning active-sit products with FDA approved antimicrobial protection," and the menu links to separate Awards and Antimicrobial pages. The About page says the patented design allows a rocking motion while sitting that, in the company's words, "will help strengthen one's core muscles (lower back and stomach) with daily use." The home page also says the chairs provide "an outlet for high-energy children & sensory seating for ADD, ADHD or Autism." Both are Kore's marketing statements; the site does not cite a study behind them.

The company history

The About page has a detailed timeline, and it is the most specific part of the site. It says the first rocking stool was designed by Jon Elmaleh in 1970 in a wood shop, as a design school class project. In 1986 the rocking stool was awarded USPTO Design patent #283,856. In 1999 came the first manufactured version, the Unistool, with a factory-built seat and piston but a base still handmade of wood; the page says an architect taking part in a Museum of Modern Art house exhibition recommended it to the museum shop, and by 2005 the Unistool was sold in the MoMA Design Store.

Hand-turning every base proved to be too much for one man, the page says, so the dome was moved to stamped steel for mass production, alongside an updated height adjustment lever and a wider seat. In 2006 a company called Out There Technologies began marketing the new version as the Flexistool, but manufacturing problems sent it back to the drawing board. In 2008 Out There Technologies found a new factory and spent 2 years perfecting and testing the product, and the Kore stool reached the market in 2009. From 2016, the page says, Kore added categories, features and colors.

What the site leaves out

The site does not publish a weight capacity for any chair, seat diameter, or the materials of the seat and base beyond the antimicrobial claim. A Warranty page is in the menu, but the product pages do not state warranty terms. Assembly, shipping costs and international delivery are not covered on the product pages, and there are no customer reviews on the site itself.

Who it suits

Kore suits schools and parents who want a wobble stool matched to a child's height, since the range runs from a 12" preschool stool up to a 32" sit-stand chair and the sizes are in the product names. Teachers furnishing a flexible-seating classroom get chairs, desks and a balance disc from one maker, in matching colors. Adults are served by just the two Office PLUS chairs. Because the site shows no prices, anyone comparing cost will need to go through the retailers the company lists.