All person have never heard of the Danish Modern style, which is a disgrace considering that it was one of the notable and madeby Danish designer Finn Juhl in the 1940s, Danish Modern furniture is made up by their natural geometric design, use of light materials such as wood, and the high quality craftsmanship usual in Scandinavian products. The Danish Modern look was the most rampant furniture design in the western hemisphere from 1940 up to late 60s, with a a number 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 demonstrates the Danish Modern look, the Egg Chair would be a very good example. First made in 1958, the Egg Chair is a lounge chair made up of of a rounded leather seat and a 4-star metal base. The chair was created by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, and was proposed as one of the designs for the lobby and reception areas of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The SAS Royal Hotel was one of Jacobsen’s primary architectural works, and the soft, curvaceous Egg Chair was meant to balance the structures hard linear structure the structures hard linear construction.

As typical with Danish Modern furniture, the Egg Chair was equally light for its mass with an rough weight of 18 kilograms. However, instead of the common wood the body of the Egg is finished from plaster inserted with cold synthetic foam. This alternative product is reflective of Jacobsen’s love for space-age objects] and manufacturing processes, with later reproductions of the design being created from more tough fiberglass material. The body is then inserted with a base made up of a tough steel tube, spindle and a 4-star injected aluminum base. The chair is also able to be moved at a detailed height thanks to a steel and aluminum device 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 look with another Jacobsen design, the Swan Chair, and both were shortly produced as couches. yet different from the Swan the couch style of the Egg was made only in very little quantities due to exclusivity as well as complicated processes in manufacturing.

The Egg Chair is presently produced by Fritz Hansen of Copenhagen and is one of the company’s top products.