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Eero Aarnio Cup Chair

Styleinvestor — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:44:05 +0000

Designer: Eero Aarnio

Designed: 1962

The Eero Aarnio Cup Chair was created by the designer with the same name in 1962. The cup chair is made of hardened fiber glass resin with one round leg, suitable for bars, kitchens and reception areas. As the name says, it has the shape of a cup and the back is very comfortable for your back bone. It comes in various external colors and the interior can have different leather finishing. Dimensions: Depth: 60.00cm, Width: 60.00cm, Height: 70.00cm, Seat Height: 47.00cm.

Pony

Styleinvestor — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:43:34 +0000

Designer: Eero Aarnio

Designed: 1973

The Pony was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1973 and it was meant to be a stool for adults with 54 cm height, though kids were very attracted by the shape this chair has and it “became” a toy. Aarnio is reknown for his imagination and he made a metal structured covered in modeled foam and dressed in stretch fabric (89% polyester, 11% polyurethane / DuPont Lycra) and based in more colors: green, orange, black or white. The vision of Aarnio for this chair was: “A chair is a chair, a chair is a chair … Although a chair is always a seat, but a seat must not always be a chair. A seat can be almost any shape. The main thing is, that he has a proper ergonomics. Even a small and soft pony can offer a comfortable seat. You can be ‘ride’ or sit sideways. ”

Ball Chair

Styleinvestor — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:00:11 +0000

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.