If you ask somebody on the street what type a chair is, the last answer you would attain get is a ball. After all, anybody who has ever tested sitting on a ball as a child believes how hard, if not aching, it could be. Even if, with advances in creating technology and discovery of latest synthetic elements it is now achievable for chairs and other furnishings to be worked into different forms. If you need further evidence, you only need to take a passing stare at the Ball Chair.

One of the most prominent furniture creations of the 20th century, the Ball Chair is a lounge chair which is primarily, as its term suggests, a large, hollow ball. The chair is finished from laminated fiberglass, a composite material composed of synthetic polymer and glass fibers identified for its lightweight and strength. The interior of the Ball Chair is lined with either fabric or leather cushions, and is fixed at the bottom with a broad fiberglass pedestal. In addition, earlier manufactured models of the Ball Chair were inaugurate with a plastic telephone on the inner side, even if modern re-editions of the chair have exchange it with more latest appliances such as digital media players.

The Ball Chair was made in 1963 by Finnish interior designer Eero Aarnio, and was basically intended for private use in his home. A prototype was first prepared of plywood which in turn was utilized to mold the final fiberglass paradigm through a process alike to that used in preparing wings and fuselages for light aircraft. The chair was later showed at the 1966 International Furniture Fair in Cologne, Germany, where it was accepted quite warmly and renowned Aarnio as a top-tier furniture stylist.

Now, certified reproductions of the Ball Chair design are produced by the Adelta designer furniture association of Dinslaken, Germany.