Students. We love em!
But slightly better than students are poor graduates.
For just as a man alone in a forest at night must rely on all his wit and inventiveness to find warmth and food, so must a designer taking his first tentative freelance steps rely on all his talents and intuition as a designer not to freeze to death. Or starve.
So, or at least similar, is how we like to imagine Eero Aarnio developing probably his most defining design: the Ball Chair
Helsinki. 1962. The young Eero and his wife have a flat, but no proper chair for the lounge. And so he decided to created his own.
The result was the Ball Chair - or Globe Chair - one of the most instantly recognisable and universally beloved chair designs of the 20th century.
Aarnio's Ball Chair is however more than an eclectic design; it is in many ways the forerunner to a concept of furniture design that sees furniture as a place of refuge, a place of safety and a place of comfort. Modern interpretations include, for example, Lese + Lebe from Moormann or the highback version of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's Alcove Sofa from Vitra.
Indeed Vitra's "Net'n'Nest" office design concept relies to a great extent on the basics of the Ball Chair.
Created from a fibreglass shell with a lined and cushioned interior Ball Chair is the perfect addition to any home or office.
Or student flat.
