Garden Egg chair
Garden Egg chair | |
Designer : Peter Ghyczy | |
Date : 1968 | |
Country : Germany | |
Materials : Polyurethane frame. Leather or fabric inner. | |
Style/Tradition : Post-Modernist | |
Dimensions: 84x74x98cm (WxDxH) | |
Colours : variable |
The Garden Egg chair was designed by Peter Ghyczy in 1968. It was manufactured by Reuter Products. The chair was designed for both indoor/outdoor use, although as a design icon and collectable it is rarely used outdoors. The chair lid lifts and closes, when closed are theoretically waterproof. The Egg chair was re-introduced in 2001 by Ghyczy Novo. The Garden Egg Chair is known under several names; “seftenberger ei, pod chair, l’œuf en garden(egg)chair.” Elastogran/Reuter produced the plastic Polyurethane. Peter Ghyczy his job was to start a design centre in order to show industrial customers the potential of this plastic material. The Garden Egg Chair is one of the first chairs which was made with Polyurethane. For a long time the chair was produced by the East German company VEB-Synthese-Werk but since 1998 the chair is produced in The Netherlands.
Designer
Peter Ghyczy (1940) left his motherland Hungary in 1956 because of the revolution and moved to West Germany. Here he finished his high school and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and University of Aachen. After graduating he started as head of the design department at Elastogran/Reuter where he developed the Garden Egg Chair in 1968. The in his opinion traditional way of working made him to leave the company in 1972. He moved to The Netherlands and started his own company.
See also
External links
- Ghyczy official website
- official Ghyczy Facebookpage
- official website garden egg chair
- Museum Victoria and Albert