Garden Egg chair

Designer Designer A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...  : Peter Ghyczy Peter Ghyczy Peter Ghyczy is a German designer of Hungarian origin, who lives in the Netherlands.-Biography:Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family grew up Buda, a fine district of Budapest...

Date : 1968

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Materials : Fiberglass Fiberglass Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...  frame. Leather Leather Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...  or fabric inner.

Style/Tradition : Modernist Modernism Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

Dimensions: 84x74x98cm (WxDxH)

Colours : variable

The Garden Egg chair is designed by Peter Ghyczy

Peter Ghyczy

Peter Ghyczy is a German designer of Hungarian origin, who lives in the Netherlands.-Biography:Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family grew up Buda, a fine district of Budapest...

 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 has been re-inroduced 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 costumers 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

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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 Achen. After graduating he started as head of the design department at Elastogran/Reuter were 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.