Iconic Eero Aarnio Giant Ball Chair

Name: Iconic Eero Aarnio Giant Ball Chair
Brand: Eero Aarnio
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he Leather Ball Chair Designed by Eero Aarnio 1963 Designed by Eero Aarnio 1963 Designed by Eero Aarnio 1963 Designed by Eero Aarnio 1963 The Ball Chair was designed in the early 1960s, debuting at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. The chair is one of the most famous classics of Finnish design and it was the international breakthrough of Eero Aarnio. The Ball Chair was designed in the early 1960s, debuting at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. The chair is one of the most famous classics of Finnish design and it was the international breakthrough of Eero Aarnio. The Ball Chair was designed in the early 1960s, debuting at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. The chair is one of the most famous classics of Finnish design and it was the international breakthrough of Eero Aarnio. The giant version of the iconic classic was born in Eero Aarnio’s mind many years ago seeing how much the Ball Chair sparked joy for small children. He wanted to create the same experience for adults. The designer strongly feels that as we grow up, we often lose our inner child in the process and overthink our surrounding world. Throughout his career Eero Aarnio has strived to preserve the child-like playfulness and curiosity that makes life so wonderful. Giant Ball Chair is a reminder about embracing the inner child and allowing moments of pure happiness. The Ball Chair was designed in the early 1960s, debuting at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. The chair is one of the most famous classics of Finnish design and it was the international break through Fibreglass shell, Gelcoat finish Colour: white Colour: White (Other shell colours available on request) Polyurethane foam cushions Polyurethane foam cushions Polyurethane foam cushions Aluminum base FR Foam Crib 5 FR Foam Crib 5 FR Foam Crib 5 Polyurethane foam cushions FR Foam Crib 5 Polyurethane foam cushions FR Foam Crib

Creator:
Eero Aarnio (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 86.62 in (220 cm)Width: 43.31 in (110 cm)Depth: 69.69 in (177 cm)Seat Height: 28.35 in (72 cm)
Style:
Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Aluminum,Fabric,Fiberglass
Place of Origin:
Finland
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
contemporary
Production Type:
New & Custom(Current Production)
Estimated Production Time:
16-17 weeks
Condition:
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: giant ball 1stDibs: LU4465239416872

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Eero Aarnio

“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.”

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