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Dimension -
W55 - L110 - H76 cm - Seat height 46 cm
Designer
Eero Aarnio (born
1932) is a Finnish interior designer, well known for
his innovative furniture modern design in the 1960s,
notably his plastic and fibreglass chairs.
Aarnio studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts
in Helsinki, and started his own office in 1962. The
following year he introduced his
Ball Chair, a hollow
sphere on a stand, open on one side to allow a
person to sit within. The similar Bubble Chair was
clear and suspended from above. Other innovative
designs included his
Tomato Chair (more stable with a seat between
three spheres). His Screw Table, as the name
suggests, had the appearance of a flat head screw
driven into the ground.
Aarnio's designs were an important aspect of 1960s
popular culture (though his designs did not reflect
this), and could often be seen as part of sets in
period science-fiction films. Because his retro
furniture modern designs used very simple geometric
forms, they were ideal for such productions.
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