Designer: Eero Aarnio

Designed: 1966

The Ball Chair (also known as Globe Chair) was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1966 and hand made by him. In 1966 the Ball Chair was presented at the international furniture fair in Cologne and it was the sensation of the fair. It’s a very unconventional shaped chair – it looks like a hollowed out ball, fixed on a leg. Sitting in its interior makes you feel like in a “room within a room”, having your own privacy, in a calm atmosphere, isolated from noise. However, the chair can turn around its own axis, which gives a choice to the user: turn around and exclude yourself from the world around you, or face the room and the people in it. The Vitra Design Museum notes: “It is something between a piece of furniture and a piece of architecture and at the same time embodies both the mobile and the established, the fixed.” It’s completely cushioned in fabric.

Designer: George Nelson

Designed: 1947

The Ball Clock was designed by George Nelson embodying the spirit of the early ’50s. It was created in a festive evening with the collaboration of Noguchi and Fuller. This design makes clocks more appealing and there is no space for dullness in the colorful elements. Each hour is represented by one ball and there is so much simplicity in the design that time seems to be lighter, the clock seems to be floating in the air. It has 13cm diameter and functions on one battery. The original is hosted in the Collection Vitra Design Museum.