Ball Chair

The Finnish designer Eero Aarnio, born in 1932, studied from 1954 to 1957 at the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki and started in 1962 with his own office as an interior and industrial designer. Aarnio was - and still is - one of the pioneers in using plastic in industrial design. Plastic material set the designers free to create every shape and use every color they wanted. This gave birth to objects oscillating between function and fun, but always fascinating ones.

The Ball Chair - or Globe Chair as it's called sometimes - was designed by using one of the most simple geometric forms, the ball. Cutting of a part and fixing it at one point Eero Aarnio comes to a remarkable result, a completely unconventional shaped chair. A Ball Chair is a ‘room within a room’ with a cozy and calm atmosphere, protecting outside noises and giving a private space for relaxing or having a phone-call. Turning around its own axis on the base the view to the outer space is variable for the user and thus he is not completely excluded from world outside.

98 x 105 x h120 cm

Available color combinations: please contact us