17 Egg Chair

Designed in: 1958

Designer: Arne Jacobsen

This egg chair, which frequently appears in various leisure places, is a masterpiece of the Danish furniture design master Jacobsen. The egg chair is inspired by the womb chair, but its wrapping power is not as strong as that of the womb chair, and it is relatively more spacious.

Created in 1958 for the lobby and reception area of ​​the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, this chair is now a symbol of Danish furniture design. Like the Womb Chair, the Egg Chair is a place for relaxation. It is also very unique and beautiful as a decoration.

18 Swan Chair

Designed in: 1958

Designer: Arne Jacobsen

The Swan Chair is a classic piece of furniture designed by Jacobsen in the late 1950s for the Royal Hotel of Scandinavian Airlines in the center of Copenhagen. Jacobsen's design has a strong sculptural form and organic modeling language, combining free and smooth sculptural modeling with the traditional characteristics of Nordic design, making his works have both extraordinary texture and complete structure.

Such a classic design still has extraordinary charm today. The Swan Chair is the embodiment of fashionable life concept and taste.

19 Aluminium Chair

Designed in: 1958

Designer: Charles & Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames have always valued substance over form. So they gave this chair an innovative suspension support. This support forms a strong yet flexible "seat pocket" that can perfectly conform to the shape of the human body. The designers stretched a single piece of seat back material and stretched it over thin aluminum side ribs to create the suspension, ultimately providing users with long-term comfort.

20 Panton Chair

Designed in: 1960

Designer: Verner Panton

Verner Panton is "the most imaginative designer of the 20th century" and loves to experiment with colors and materials. This world's first one-piece plastic cantilever chair was inspired by stacking plastic barrels and is extremely subversive.

Panton's greatness lies in his idea of ​​utilizing the properties of plastic materials, which are elastic and extensible. Therefore, the Panton chair does not need to be assembled like other chairs. The whole is made of the same material, which also symbolizes that the design of chairs has entered a new stage. The rich colors and beautiful streamlined design make the whole chair look simple but not simple. Therefore, the Panton chair is also known as the "world's sexiest single chair ".

21 Ball Chair

Designed in: 1963

Designer: Eero Aarnio

Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio designed the Ball Chair in 1963 and debuted it at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. It is considered one of the classics of industrial design . The original design came from the fact that they didn't have a suitable large chair at home, so they decided to design and make one themselves. Today, the latest version of the Ball Chair has added different sizes and added interesting functions, including a music player.

22 Three-Legged Shell Chair

Designed in: 1963

Designer: Hans Wegner

The triangular shell chair is one of the classic masterpieces of Danish master Hans Wegner: usually called Shell Chair.

The three-legged shell chair is also known as the "smile chair" because of its beautiful curves, which resemble a warm smile . Its smiling seat presents a unique three-dimensional curved surface effect, which is as light and smooth as a wing, and is suspended and agile.

The removal of armrests, extension of the seat and other unconventional practices provide a wider space for various comfortable sitting postures. The slightly raised ends embrace people deeply, giving people a great sense of security psychologically.

The Shell Chair's road to becoming a classic did not happen overnight. In 1963, when it was unveiled at the Copenhagen Furniture Fair, people praised it, but only bought it. As a result, it was discontinued after a period of production. It was not until 1997, with the advancement of technology, new factories and new technologies that could control production costs, that the Shell Chair was re-launched in front of the world and won many design awards and the favor of customers.

The re-edition of the Shell Chair has rich colors, and its flowing curves make it 360° seamless

After half a century of ups and downs, the Shell Chair finally completed the modern transformation of its formal beauty and also achieved Wagner's unique shell-like design language.

23 Platner Lounge Chair

Designed in: 1966

Designer: Warren Platner

The designer permeated the modern vocabulary with a shape that is " decorative, soft and graceful ", welding bent steel strips that serve as both structure and decoration to circular and semi-circular frames to create the iconic Plattner lounge chair.

24. Inflatable Chair/Blow Chair

Designed in: 1967

Designer: DDL Studio

In Pop's world, even chairs can explode... In the 1960s, plastic technology and mass production had changed people's lifestyles in terms of clothing, food, housing, and transportation. The popularity of cheap consumer goods also changed people's attitudes towards daily products around them, and a "use it and throw it away" mentality quickly spread. People just live in the present - won't the world be destroyed and abandoned sooner or later?

The inflatable chair is the epitome of mass-produced disposable items in the 1960s, and it also challenges the durability and expensiveness of traditional craftsmanship. Its designer DDL is a Milan-based design studio founded by Donato Dulbino, Jonathan De Paz and Paolo Lomazzi. Whether placed indoors or outdoors, this inflatable chair made of cheap PVC plastic looks so interesting.

This chair is not a necessity for life, and the designer did not think about making it very sturdy . It even comes with a matching repair tool to deal with the problem of flat tires. Although this guy who looks like a Michelin tire man has a very unserious face, its commercial success is unquestionable. Until today, this chair is still being reproduced and has spawned a large number of various replicas. DDL Studio brought joy to furniture with this cheap and cute inflatable chair.

Followers of the inflatable chair

25 Bubble Chair

Designed in: 1968

Designer: Eero Aarnio

After Eero Aarnio finished the Ball Chair, he suddenly had an inspiration. He wanted to create a chair that allows light to penetrate completely, so that people can read easily under natural light. Finally, he found that acrylic material could make his idea a reality. After many experiments, a chair that was completely beyond imagination was born . The stainless steel chain hangs this lovely chair in the living room, like a big bubble floating in the air. The designer called it Bubble.

26 Sacco Chair

Designed in: 1968

Designer: Piero Gatti

Franco Teodoro

Cesare Paolini

Designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro, the Sacco Bean Bag Chair is made of countless polystyrene particles in a bag made of black leather or fabric. The Sacco Bean Bag Chair abandons all the components of a traditional chair and can shape itself at will according to the user's body shape and posture.

Thanks to its infinite possibilities of shape expansion and its light and portable nature, it can be transformed into a sofa, a lounge chair, a footstool, or even a kind of home decoration sculpture. As the prototype of countless bean bag chairs in later generations, the Sacco bean bag chair ushered in a new era of furniture design.

27 Ghost Chair

Designed in: 1970

Designer: Philippe Starck

Designed by French iconic genius designer Philippe Starck, it comes in both armrest and armless versions.

The shape of this chair is inspired by the famous Baroque chair style of the Louis XV period in France, so it always feels familiar when you see it. The material is polycarbonate, which was fashionable at the time, which always gives people an illusion of being looming and about to disappear.

28 Lockheed Lounge

Designed in: 1986

Designer: Marc Newson

While studying at Sydney College of the Arts, Marc Newson designed the Lockheed-Lounge-Chair under the auspices of the Australian Crafts Council, which quickly gained him global attention in 1986.

The main body of the Lockheed Lounge Chair is made mainly of reinforced fiberglass plastic, with legs that hang down in a natural curve and are covered with rubber at the ends. The entire surface is covered with thin-walled aluminum panels with blind rivets attached. These sheets do not overlap, but are almost seamlessly connected, giving the feeling of an aircraft fuselage .

Among his works, the Lockheed Lounge Chair had the highest transaction price. It was sold for 2.4345 million pounds (about 20 million yuan) at an auction in London in 2015.

29 Big Easy

Designed in: 1986

Designer: Ron Arad

Through the reinterpretation of materials and production processes, the softness and fullness of this visual effect are demonstrated. The use of polyethylene as a material, as its name suggests, wraps you in a large, muscular shape, and the material makes you feel safe and relaxed. In this case, form is greater than material.

30 Ghost

Designed in: 1987

Designer: Cini Boer

This glass chair was designed by the famous Italian designer Cini Boeri, who named it Ghost. This chair was made in 1987. It is made of crystal glass. A 12mm thick crystal glass plate was cut, softened and bent into armrests, and a 25cm long gap was punched to form the transparent and bright crystal glass chair you see in the picture.

The designer believes that furniture, in its relationship with people, is not just a physical object, but the sum of possibilities such as dreams and wishes.

The transparent material used by Ghost creates a seamless sense of transparency. Due to the limited space of Ghost, it is recommended to only provide one person to use it; in addition, this glass chair should be kept away from fire sources to avoid unnecessary danger caused by excessive heat.

31 Embryo Chair

Designed in: 1988

Designer: Marc Newson

Marc Newson designed this Embryo Chair for the Sydney Powerhouse Museum exhibition when he was 25 years old. The Embryo Chair has a unique name and a very unique shape. It was designed by Marc Newson to imitate the shape of a fetus in the womb. The biggest feature of this chair is the organic combination of sculptural shape and soft material. The chrome steel structure is filled with molded polyurethane foam and covered with two-way elastic fixed fabric, highlighting the designer's "soft minimalism" design style.

This Embryo Chair, along with the Felt Chair he designed, is hailed by the design community as one of the world's top ten most collectible chairs and now sells for over $5,000.

32. Felt chair

Designed in: 1989

Designer: Marc Newson

Designed in 1989, the Felt Chair looks like a curved sleeve. The main body is made of fiberglass, and the stool legs are polished aluminum alloy. The colors are bright and there are six options: yellow, orange, red, green, white and black. The Felt Chair, along with the Embryo Chair, is praised by the design community as one of the top ten most collectible chairs in the world.

33 Stacking Chair/Tom Vac Chair T.Vac

Designed in: 1999

Designer: Ron Arad

As one of the most important designers of the 20th century, Ron Arad combined materials and concepts with innovative thinking, embodying a unique design vocabulary. Tom Vac, designed in 1999, has multiple characteristics of elegance and comfort . Whether used indoors or outdoors, it can provide the most appropriate riding experience. The specially treated plastic shell can effectively resist the invasion of ultraviolet rays and will not fade. The simple and stackable function can easily cope with occasions where multiple people are used.

34 Chair One

Designed in: 2003

Designer: Konstantin Grcic

What will the chair of the future look like? Chair No. 1 is probably the most appropriate answer.

The chair is made of a die-cast aluminium grid, inspired by the leather structure of a football surface, with many planes assembled at angles to each other to form a three-dimensional shape.

The German industrial designer is known for his minimalist aesthetic, with his functional designs characterized by geometric shapes and unexpected angles.

The seat of the chair can be placed on different bases.

The shape is minimalist, symmetrical and graceful, and the delicate triangular lattice structure makes people forget that Chair One is made of solid metal.

35 Bloom Chair

Design time: 2009

Designer: Kenneth Cobonpue

Bloom Chair is made of soft fabric made of artificial fiber, which is pleated on a bowl-shaped resin base. The natural pleats and bright colors make it look like a blooming flower or a lotus leaf in a lotus pond.

Kenneth Cotonou, from the Philippines, graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Pratt Institute in New York in his early years. After studying and working in Germany for several years, he returned to his hometown and worked for ICI, a furniture design company founded by his mother and famous for its rattan furniture.

He tried to achieve harmony between man and nature through design, so that people could coexist with nature instead of dominating it.

He once said that he never drew sketches when designing, but listened to the sounds of nature, followed the contours of nature, and portrayed the beauty of nature.