The Danish Modern Design Named Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair
All person have never heard of the Danish Modern style, which is a dishonor considering that it was one of the different and famousby Danish designer Finn Juhl in the 1940s, Danish Modern furniture is known by their natural geometric design, use of light materials such as wood, and the high quality craftsmanship seen in Scandinavian products. The Danish Modern design was the most rampant furniture design in the western hemisphere from 1940 up to late 60s, with a little still being very well-known to this day. One such well-known Danish Modern style is the Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair.
If there was a look that best show the Danish Modern design, the Egg Chair would be a very good example. First manufactured in 1958, the Egg Chair is a lounge chair composed of of a rounded leather seat and a 4-star metal base. The chair was created by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, and was planned as one of the decorations for the lobby and reception areas of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The SAS Royal Hotel was one of Jacobsen’s main architectural works, and the soft, curvaceous Egg Chair was meant to match the structures hard linear building the structures hard linear construction.
As typical with Danish Modern furniture, the Egg Chair was equally light for its mass with an estimated weight of 18 kilograms. However, instead of the usual wood the body of the Egg is completed from plaster inserted with cold synthetic foam. This eccentric product is reflective of Jacobsen’s love for space-age things from more tough fiberglass material. The body is then laid with rich leather upholstery and compressed with a base comprised of of a tough steel tube, spindle and a 4-star injected aluminum base. The chair is also able to be manipulated at a precise height thanks to a steel and aluminum instrument at the underside of the Egg’s body.
Even though an inventive design by Jacobsen, the Egg Chair was said to be motivated by the Womb Chair design by Finnish architect Eero Sarinens. The Egg also shares a parallel figure with another Jacobsen design, the Swan Chair, and both were soon produced as couches. but Not like the Swan the couch edition of the Egg was manufactured only in very little quantities due to exclusivity as well as complicated processes in manufacturing.
The Egg Chair is recently produced by Fritz Hansen of Copenhagen and is one of the company’s top products.
