Hover over image to zoomIt's a bit space age, a bit glamorous, a bit indoor hammock. The Bubble chair was built to swing lazily on a landing or to be suspended in a room full of books but within reach of a martini.The chair is so perfectly designed that it comes as a shock to realise that it hangs from the ceiling only by accident. In the Sixties, the designer, Eero Aarnio, wanted his chair to be transparent and couldn't find a way of making a clear pedestal so he had to hang it instead. The Finnish designer is one of the 20th century's greatest innovators. He broke from traditional designs and experimented with colour, plastic and organic curved forms. His work is now in the collections of the V&A, MoMA and Vitra Design Museum. To understand the Bubble, it is first necessary to look at the Ball. Aarnio, in the best tradition of great inventors and businessmen, wanted something, didn't have it so made it himself. "We had moved into our first home and I had started my freelance career in 1962," he says.
"We had a home but no proper big chair, so I decided to make one, but in some way a really new one. After some drawing I noticed that the shape of the chair had become so simple that it was merely a ball. I pinned the full scale drawing to the wall and 'sat' in the chair ..." He then knocked up a prototype. The idea was also to create a room within a room that would protect the user from outside noise and on a turning pedestal that would allow him, or her, to turn to or away from the room. When two young managers from Asko, a Scandinavian kitchen and laundry appliance company, visited Aarnio, they were so impressed they wanted to put his new chair into production too. "I wanted to have light inside it and so I had the idea of a transparent ball where the light comes from all directions," Aarnio adds. "The only suitable material is acrylic which is heated and blown into shape like a soap bubble, and again the name was obvious." As there was no way to make a totally clear pedestal, the chair was hung from the ceiling.
The Sanderson Hotel in London eveb has a bubble-chair in the lobby. Sadly, the proper version costs nearly £5,000 although, as with all design classics, there are lots of copies around for which you can knock a zero off the price.Best Exercise Ball Chairs image katherinejolinetuckerExercise ball chairs range from the ball alone to a complete chair with arm rests and back, and are said to help improve posture and relieve neck and back pain. Sitting on one of these large balls made...Read More about Best Exercise Ball ChairsSkip to Main Content Buy today, get free shipping for the next 30 days Shopping for a client? Unlock insider pricing and more member perks Overall Product Weight: 37.4lb. Irony and irreverence merge with comfort and practicality in the unparalleled Bubble Club Armchair. As an industrial chair made entirely of plastic, the Bubble Club Armchair is an innovation that springs from meticulous research and development. This cozy armchair owes its cartoon like appearance to the careful contrast between the traditional lines of the backrest and the exaggerated contours of the armrests.
Made of smooth batch-dyed polyethylene Can be used indoors or outdoors Suitable for residential or commercial use Bubble Club Armchair Made of smooth batch-dyed polyethylene Bubble Club Armchair Can be used indoors or outdoors Bubble Club Armchair Made in Italy Quality: In 2005, Kartell received accreditation for its Quality Management Systems according to the ISO 9001: 2000 standard. The attainment and preservation of this certification testifies to Kartell's commitment to high quality and continued research into higher levels of quality in company management systems Helping the Environment: Kartell products use a wide variety of plastic materials, thereby reducing the use of living organisms, such as trees, which are difficult and time-consuming to replace Helping the Environment: Most Kartell products are easily recycled and product components can be separated to elements made of a single material to simplify the recycling process. Plastic components also carry clear identification marks to aid correct separation of different plastic types for effective recycling
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