Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio for Asko
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Wien, AT
Eero Aarnio Ball Chair from the first production of Asko. An absolute design icon and known
Fabric, Fiberglass, Foam
$11,682
H 47.25 in W 41.34 in D 38.59 in
Original 1st Edition Eero Aarnio Ball Chair for Asko Finland, 1970s
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Renens, CH
Designed by Eero Aarnio in the 1960s, the Ball, also known as the Globe Chair, is one of the most
Steel
Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio for Asko
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Wien, AT
The Eero Aarnio Ball Chair from the first production run by Asko is an absolute design icon
Fabric, Fiberglass, Foam
Extreme rare Ball chair by Eero Aarnio made by Asko.
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Sittard, NL
Rare 1st edition Ball chair. Made by Asko, Finland. Designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963. Today they
Leather
Sold
H 47.25 in W 43.31 in D 39.38 in
1st Edition Series Eero Aarnio Ball Chair, Asko Finland Custom Order in Leather
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
The ball chair was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 and produced by Asko in Finland It was
Leather, Fiberglass
Original Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio Asko
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Telgte, DE
Original ball chair by Eero Aarnio Asko Leather, 1960s.
Fiberglass, Leather
Original Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio Asko
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Telgte, DE
Original ball chair by Eero Aarnio Asko Red fabric, 1960s.
Fabric, Fiberglass
Original Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio Asko
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Telgte, DE
Original ball chair by Eero Aarnio Asko Red fabric, 1960s.
Fabric, Fiberglass
Vintage Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio for Asko, Finland 1963
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
interior? This original Ball Chair by Finnish designer Eero Aarnio, produced by Asko in the 1970's
Metal
Sold
H 47.25 in W 41.34 in D 38.59 in
Eero Aarnio, Ball Chair by Asko, Signed 1, Edition in Bright Orange 1963 Finland
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Munster, NRW
The ball chair was designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 and presented at the International Furniture
Fabric, Fiberglass
Sold
H 49.22 in W 40.16 in D 40.16 in
20th Century Retro Ball Chair in the Style of Eero Aarnio for Asko, C.1960
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
The iconic and original ball chair, designed by Eero Aarnio for Asko. The interior cushioning has
Lambskin
Eero Aarnio The Ball Chair, Pair
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
We love balls! Midcentury masterpieces. From Aarnio Originals website: The ball chair was designed
Fabric, Fiberglass
Set of Two Original Adelta Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio Asko
By Eero Aarnio, Adelta
Located in Telgte, DE
Set of two original Adelta ball chair by Eero Aarnio Asko Very nice Adelta ball chairs. Color: red
Fabric, Fiberglass
Eero Aarnio Ball Chair for Asko
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Authentic 1960s vintage ball chair by the iconic Mid-Century designer, Eero Aarnio. A "room within
Metal
Eero Aarnio Red Velvet Ball Chair for Asko
By Stendig Co., Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Authentic vintage ball chair by the iconic Midcentury designer, Eero Aarnio. A "room within a room
Metal
Ball Chair by Asko - Eero Aarnio 1963, Rare First Edition
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Munster, NRW
Ball chair by Asko Eero Aarnio. 1963 First edition, foam is good.
Fiberglass
Eero Aarnio Ball Chair by Asko Lahti
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pre Adelta ball chair by Eero Aarnio from the 1960s in brilliant orange with original black
Aluminum
Lucite Hanging 'Bubble Chair' by Eero Aarnio for Adelta, Signed
By Eero Aarnio, Adelta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
designed the Ball chair, which was equally iconic to the Bubble chair. We have an authentic Ball chair by
Chrome
Eero Aarnio Ball Chair Asko Finland, 1963
By Eero Aarnio, Asko
Located in Frankfurt / Dreieich, DE
Early Eero Aarnio ball chair with spectacular original fabric. Made by Asko, Finland, 1963. Good
Metal
Original Vintage Eero Aarnio Ball Chair-- Asko
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Eero Aarnio white ball chair manufactured by Asko.
Executive Chairs by Eero Aarnio for Mobel Italia
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Staphorst, NL
Executive chairs. Designer: Eero Aarnio (Ball chair Asko). Manufacturer: Mobel Italia. Chromed
Chrome
Ball Chair Designed by Eero Aarnio and Produced by Asko in 1963
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Paris, FR
design from the sixties, very famous thanks to his Ball Chair designed between 1963 and 1965. Aarnio
Fiberglass
Ball Chair Designed by Eero Aarnio and Produced by Asko in 1963
By Asko, Eero Aarnio
Located in Paris, FR
Original 1st edition of the Ball Chair Designed by Eero Aarnio and Produced by Asko in 1963. The
Fabric, Fiberglass
Ball or Globe Chair by Eero Aarnio for Asko
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Sundridge, GB
1st Edition Ball or Globe chair in very nice condition white shell and recovered in Red Wool fabric
Sold
H 47.25 in W 41.34 in D 38.59 in
Extremely rare Ball chair by Eero Aarnio made by Asko with phone !!
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Rare 1st edition Ball chair. Made by Asko, Finland. Designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963. Today they
Metal
Sold
H 41.34 in W 47.25 in D 38.59 in
Extremely Rare Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio Made by Asko with Phone !!
By Eero Aarnio
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Rare 1st edition ball chair made by Asko, Finland and designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963. Nowadays
Antique Chinese Carved Canopy Bed with Alcove
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid to late 19th century, elaborately carved, antique Chinese bed Chambers was used to greet visitors and usually was furnished with two chairs and a center table: from which tea, wi...
Lacquer, Wood
Mah Jong by Hans Hopfer for Roche Bobois 1st Edition Sofa
By Roche Bobois, Hans Hopfer
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare and iconic 1st edition circa 1971 Mah Jong modular sectional sofa consisting of ten element pillows. The sofa was designed by Hans Hopfer for Roche Bobois in this avant-garde de...
Fabric, Foam
$2,275Sale Price|35% Off
H 7.5 in Dm 6 in
Japanese Meiji Era Wireless Cloisonne Pink Crane Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with wireless cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji era, before 1912. Round shape with pronounced base. The piece is decorated with a stork or crane bir...
Copper, Enamel
$24,500 / set
H 28 in W 120 in D 37 in
De Sede, Mid-Century Modern, DS-600 Non Stop Sectional Sofa, Green Fabric
By De Sede
Located in Manhasset, NY
De Sede, Mid-Century Modern, DS-600 Non Stop Sectional Sofa, Green Fabric Vintage 'Non-Stop' DS 600 sofa designed by Ueli Berger, Eleanora Peduzzi-Riva, Heinz Ulrich, and Klaus Vogt...
Fabric, Felt
$4,178Sale Price|28% Off
H 27.56 in W 45.28 in D 17.33 in
Dutch 19th Century Folk Art Architectural Mansion Pigeon / Birdcage
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful and unique Dutch Folk art Pigeon/birdcage in the form of a manor . This type of birdcages were made in the North of he Netherlands . They were miniature versions of the ori...
Wood
$4,995
H 44 in W 39.5 in D 18 in
Mid-Century Futurist Raymond Loewy Inspired Yellow Chapter One Highboy Dresser
By Broyhill, Raymond Loewy
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Broyhill’s Chapter One Collection is officially harder to find and more sought after than the Raymond Loewy orginals. With all due respect to Raymond Loewy, there really is something...
Plastic, Hardwood
19th Century Chinese Canopy Wedding Bed
Located in Marbella, ES
This is a wonderful example of a canopy bed from Shanghai Province, China. Made of Chinese Northern Elm, this bed features hoofed feet and multiple floral carvings. The exterior ...
Gold Leaf
$36,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 173 in D 87 in
Guido Faleschini Tucromo Velvet King Size Bed by i4 Mariani, Italy, 1970s
By Guido Faleschini, i4 Mariani
Located in Miami, FL
Rare Original Tucroma king size bed rendered in an original Ink colored (blue-black) velvet with black saddle leather straps and chrome buckles, two integrated four drawer nightstand...
Metal, Chrome
$3,295
H 19.1 in Dm 24.41 in
Space Age Vintage Orange Rotobar Bar Cart Sofa Table Curver 1971 Netherlands
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage bar cart or sofa table Rotobar by Curver from plastic in orange color circa 1971, Netherlands. A bold and joyful new arrival, the wheel supported bar cart with 4 ( ...
Metal
19t Century German Painted Two Door Armoire / Shrunk
Located in Sarasota, FL
Handpainted German cabinet from the 1800s. Deep blues and reds are the main colors. Great vintage condition. Overall wear from age, few repairs have been made overtime but in great...
Wood
$150Sale Price|20% Off
H 2.76 in W 4.34 in D 9.45 in
Ferrari telephone , 80s Miami Vice Era Phone , Vintage Telephone , Collectible
Located in Milano, IT
Rare Ferrari Telefone / Decorative Object / Limited Edition piece of the 80's It may not be white, but Miami Vice vibes are guaranteed with this funny and rare "Ferrari Testarossa" ...
Plastic
$15,994 / set
H 87.01 in W 41.34 in D 88.59 in
Louis XVI Style Bunk Beds/Matching Pair of Single Beds Made by La Maison London
By La Maison London
Located in London, Park Royal
Louis XVI style bunk beds, hand carved and hand finished in an off-white, antique finish. Takes a mattress size: 90cm x 200cm (3ft x 6ft6'). The beds come with an extra set of legs, ...
Wood
Italian Venetian Grotto Carved Seashell Rocker
By Pauly & Co.
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian Grotto (19th cent.) silver gilt rocker with carved seashell seat & back and seahorse sides (att: Pauly et Cie, Venice)
Silver Leaf
$9,416
H 19.69 in Dm 18.9 in
Mid-Century Modern Italian Orange Space Age Clan Floor Lamp from Guzzini, 1960s
By Harvey Guzzini, Studio 6G
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Modern Italian Sapce Age Clan Floor Lamp by Studio 6G for Harvey Guzzini. The classic orange version. The characteristic plastic shade lies movably mounted in a wide pl...
Metal
$1,765
H 15.75 in W 20.87 in D 20.08 in
Spage Age Model "Discoverer" Television Designed by Philips, Netherlands, 1980's
By Philips
Located in Antwerp, BE
Space Age vintage model "Discoverer" television 14 GR 1220 GB manufactured by Philips, Netherlands, 1980s. The space age design outstanding shape tv makes this design piece so fascin...
Glass, Acrylic, Plexiglass
$2,648Sale Price|10% Off
H 25.99 in Dm 23.63 in
Vintage Italian Space Age Yellow Leather Accent Swivel Chair by Antonia Astori
By Antonia Astori, Cidue
Located in Milano, IT
Yellow Vintage Latex Armchairs 70's/80's - Mid Century Modern Timeless Vintage Italian "Cidonio" Space Age swivel chair, designed by Antonia Astori for furniture brand Cidue. Prese...
Aluminum, Steel, Stainless Steel
“I always look ahead, never back,” Finnish design legend Eero Aarnio has been quoted as saying. A leading innovator of modern furniture design, Aarnio has long embraced a bold, playful, confident and colorful style several steps ahead of his time.
For his 1954 entrance test for the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki, Aarnio created a whimsical painting of a man reading a newspaper in a red, curved chair whose silhouette foreshadowed Aarnio’s Ball chair of 1963. That spherical seat skyrocketed him to design fame, and decades later, it is still recognized as one of the world’s most futuristic designs.
Born in 1932 to a house painter and a seamstress, Aarnio has always had a cheerful disposition and an independent spirit. He went his own way early on: After just two years at Asko, the big Scandinavian furniture company that originally produced his Ball chair, Aarnio established his own studio in 1962.
Over the next decade, the young visionary made an indelible mark on the world. Open-minded and entrepreneurial, Aarnio embraced the aesthetics, materials and technologies of the Swinging Sixties, working with a new generation of plastics and molding them into fluid, organically shaped, brightly hued forms.
Introduced at the 1966 Cologne Furniture Fair, the pod-like fiberglass Ball chair soon adorned the homes of movie stars and royalty, graced magazine covers around the world and was featured in films and ads. The groundbreaking seat originally came in orange, white, black, yellow and red and could be ordered with a telephone installed in it. Yet this designer of the future, as he was known in the 1960s, has always insisted that he didn’t deliberately seek to be associated with the decade’s sci-fi aesthetic.
“I had no intention to create either pop or Space Age design — as many people label my work,” Aarnio declares in one of the essays included in Eero Aarnio — Designer of Colour and Joy, a book jointly created by the Design Museum and publisher WSOY to accompany 2016’s “Eero Aarnio” exhibition.
The show featured a number of Aarnio’s objects, including his iconic Ball, Pastil (1967), Bubble (1968), Tomato (1971) and Pony (1973) chairs. These were joined by lesser-known seating and other objects like the rattan Juttujakkara, or mushroom, stool (1960); the sculptural Double Bubble lamp (2000), with which Aarnio first explored the possibilities of rotation-cast plastic; and the three-legged Rocket (1995) and Baby Rocket (2006) stools, both parts of a collection produced by Artek after Tom Dixon, the company’s creative director from 2004 to 2009, discovered the original piece in Aarnio’s kitchen.
“Aarnio expanded the whole idea of what constitutes furniture,” explained Suvi Saloniemi, the Design Museum’s chief curator. “His significance as a designer is crystallized in the liberation of form that he has introduced by discovering the properties of plastic as the material of a designer. His furniture is sculpture-like and eye-catching, but the pieces are always utilitarian at the same time.”
Find an extraordinary range of vintage Eero Aarnio chairs, tables and other furniture on 1stDibs.
While this specific seating is known to all for its comfort and familiar form, the history of how your favorite antique or vintage lounge chair came to be is slightly more ambiguous.
Although there are rare armchairs dating back as far as the 17th century, some believe that the origins of the first official “lounge chair” are tied to Hungarian modernist designer-architect Marcel Breuer. Sure, Breuer wasn’t exactly reinventing the wheel when he introduced the Wassily lounge chair in 1925, but his seat was indeed revolutionary for its integration of bent tubular steel.
Officially, a lounge chair is simply defined as a “comfortable armchair,” which allows for the shape and material of the furnishings to be extremely diverse. Whether or not chaise longues make the cut for this category is a matter of frequent debate.
The Eames lounge chair, on the other hand, has come to define somewhat of a universal perception of what a lounge chair can be. Introduced in 1956, the Eames lounger (and its partner in cozy, the ottoman) quickly became staples in television shows, prestigious office buildings and sumptuous living rooms. Venerable American mid-century modern designers Charles and Ray Eames intended for it to be the peak of luxury, which they knew meant taking furniture to the next level of style and comfort. Their chair inspired many modern interpretations of the lounge — as well as numerous copies.
On 1stDibs, find a broad range of unique lounge chairs that includes everything from antique Victorian-era seating to vintage mid-century modern lounge chairs by craftspersons such as Hans Wegner to contemporary choices from today’s innovative designers.
You know the designs, now get the stories about how they came to be.
Now considered emblematic of 1960s mod aesthetics, the Finnish designer's famous creation was far from an overnight success.