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The Egg Chair: where to buy, how to style and all you need to know

The Egg Chair: where to buy, how to style and all you need to know

The Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen is well loved and appears in many modern homes, and so we shine a spotlight on this mid-century hero

Commissioned with a multi-disciplined project - the SAS Royal Hotel in Denmark - Arne Jacobsen came up trumps when he penned the Egg Chair as part of the interior fit-out. Entirely juxtaposed to the angular high-rise building it was designed for the curvy and Barbarella-esq Egg Chair set the style-tone on the very cusp of the 1960s mid-century modern furniture era. Now world-famous, we roll the iconic egg out to find out more.

THE EGG CHAIR


Danish-born architect and designer Arne Jacobsen was handed a metaphorical golden egg when he was asked to design a brand new high-rise hotel for the Scandinavian Airlines System travel company in Denmark. An architect’s dream, surely? Jacobsen was tasked with designing everything from the ground up; outside and in.

The SAS Royal Hotel was unveiled in 1960 and it marked the beginning of a new unprecedented era for design and style. It was the time of the Beatles, fashion models and, importantly, international travel. The Egg Chair set new style standards and is considered one of the original Scandinavian design classics. Everyone who was anyone had to have one, and the fact that it was part of the new SAS Royal Hotel design immediately catapulted the Egg Chair into the interiors fashion limelight. Its association with airplanes and travel made it the must have piece. Its popularity hasn’t waned either, cementing it into modern interior design history as of the key design classic interiors pieces.

Considered a triumph of furniture design, among the greats like the Eames Lounge Chair, the Egg Chair was the first piece of furniture to be made from a strong foam inner shell, hiding underneath the taught upholstery. Jacobsen apparently crafted the prototype chair using clay, in a bid to achieve the perfect shape! Available in a variety of fabric upholstery options, the chair can also be purchased in leather too. And there’s a matching footstool, to partner up.A design double act if ever there was one.

There are quite a few variants on the market, but our tip is to look for an Egg Chair that has the Fritz Hansen brand makers mark, and then you know you’ll be buying the original standard of design and craftsmanship.



WHEN WAS THE EGG CHAIR DESIGNED?


Designed during the late 1950s and launched in 1960 as a key design piece in the fit-out of the new SAS Royal Hotel in Denmark, the Egg Chair was and still is the archetypal 1960s style and shape that society associates with the vibrant and fun-loving decade of the 1960s. The hours of research and development that Jacobsen put into the clay sculpting and design of the Egg Chair paid off, as it quickly gained popularity and has, over the past fifty years, cemented itself as a design classic staple and interior favourite.

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE EGG CHAIR


“We recently partnered with Fritz Hansen to create fully exclusive velvet editions of the Egg and Swan chair," says Campbell Thompson, Head of Buying Furniture & Lighting, The Conran Shop. "The Egg chair has never been upholstered in velvet before but the innovative new Kvadrat Gentle fabric has the stretch properties required to cover the unique Egg chair form; and our customers have been buying it for an accent lounge chair to work in both living room and bedroom spaces. It goes beautifully with the AJ floor lamp which was designed at the same time for the SAS Royal Copenhagen hotel in 1958 and both can still be seen there today, which is pretty special.”

“I have been asked specifically to include the Egg Chair on more than one occasion when designing interior schemes for clients," says Elizabeth Keenan, Founder and Interior Designer, Elizabeth Keenan Studio. The leather variant is handmade with 1,000 stitches - quality and craftsmanship always speaks volumes, and that’s why it’s a design classic.”

“The Egg chair by Arne Jacobsen is a beloved design classic, providing space to hide away from the world," says Berengere Favraud, Brands Buyer, Heal’s. Designed by Arne Jacobsen, a pioneer working at the pinnacle of modern Danish design, the chair lends itself beautifully to any home setting, from modern contemporary apartment to a traditional townhouse. At Heal’s we have seen an 91% increase in sales since March 2020 lockdown, as customers continue to invest, particularly in design pieces like the Egg Chair, that will last a lifetime” -

HOW TO STYLE THE EGG CHAIR


Be an out-and-out modernist and style up the Egg Chair in a mid-century surrounding with other Scandinavian-style mid-century design pieces, or icons like the Frank Gehry Wiggle Side chair.

Create an homage to the 1960s and zone an Egg Chair in one of the brighter fabric upholstery options with a side table and lava lamp - get your groove on, baby!

Opt for both the Egg Chair chair and the matching stool to create the ultimate curvaceous seating statement in a corner spot.
Redesigning a home or commercial office space? The Egg Chair is a welcome style statement for an office environment - it’s immediately disarming in a professional environment and oozes that 1960s fun factor!

Use with other mid-century modern classics like the Vitra Eames House Bird.

WHERE TO BUY THE EGG CHAIR


Buy the Egg Chair in Divina fabric from Heal’s from £6,165.60 here.
Buy the Egg Chair in Divina Fabric from The Conran Shop from £6,166 here
Buy the Egg Chair in Divina Fabric from Go Furniture from £6,165.60 here

PICTURES OF THE EGG CHAIR



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