Ball Chair from Aarnio Originals

The Ball Chair - or Globe Chair as it's called sometimes - was designed by using one of the most simple geometric forms - the ball. Cutting of a part and fixing it at one point Eero Aarnio comes to a remarkable result - a completely unconventional shaped chair: A Ball Chair is a "room within a room" with a cozy and calm athmosphere, protecting outside noises and giving a private space for relaxing or having a phonecall. Turning around its own axis on the base the view to the outer space is variable for the user and thus he is not completely excluded from world outside.

The Ball Chair was designed in the early 1960s, debuting at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1966. The chair is one of the most famous classics of Finnish design and it was the international breakthrough of Eero Aarnio.