Eero Aarnio Originals
Bubble Armchair
Price starting from € 4,472.00*
*Price valid for the version with cushions covered in white leather (cod. 06429810928191).
Eero Aarnio’s Bubble is a visionary armchair, capable of anticipating the future and dramatically influencing the design of its era by introducing standards that were unthinkable at the time. Designed in 1968, it features an acrylic and stainless-steel structure. Inside, it houses a leather seat available in various colors. The Bubble Chair is the worthy heir to the iconic Ball Chair, echoing its stylistic elements while further emphasizing its airy research and “futuristic” personality. Particularly distinctive is the designer’s decision not to create a pedestal base for this object, but instead to develop its suspended structure, supported by a mounting system that allows it to rotate freely in every direction. The transparent outer shell enhances the sensation of being inside a sort of space capsule, both placed within — and detached from — the surrounding environment.
W.103 x D.90 x H.105 cm
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The history of Eero Aarnio Originals is closely tied to its founder, Stefan Mahlberg, and his connection with the renowned Finnish designer Eero Aarnio. The collaboration between the two began in 2015, with the stated goal of bringing back to Finland some of Eero Aarnio’s most iconic products, including the Ball Chair, Bubble, Pastil, and Pony. In 2016, production of the classic pieces began, soon accompanied by new collections whose style draws inspiration from past works, reinterpreted and conceived with a forward-looking perspective.Read more
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Eero Aarnio
Eero Aarnio (1932-) is one of the leading names in Finnish design history. Apostle of the Space Age style, Aarnio was one of the first designers to experiment in the 60s with an extensive use of plastic in the world of furniture. His creations, starting from the iconic Ball Chair that he designed in 1963 for the Asko brand and which recalls the shape of a space capsule, are pervaded by the optimistic spirit typical of that era and are based on futuristic organic shapes. Aarnio's style, in many ways in strong break with the consolidated tradition of Scandinavian design of his masters Antti Nurmesniemi and Ilmari Tapiovaara, however knew how to stay away from the easy consumerist and pop temptations often connected to the use of plastic: his furnishings were built to last for a long time, focusing on a high quality production invoice, and perhaps for this reason they have remained so impressed in the collective memory. His iconic Ball Chair, together with other notable works such as the playful Pastilli stool or the suspended Bubble Chair armchair, are now re-proposed by the Eero Aarnio Originals brand together with much of his production from the 1960s, the decade in which he contributed decisively to shape the aesthetics. In more recent years he has experienced a period of renewed success with some important collaborations, first of all the one with the Magis brand for which he has created in particular various furnishings for children part of the Me Too collection (one of which was also awarded the Compasso d'Oro in 2008). He has also worked with brands such as Artek, Vondom, Serralunga and Alessi.Read more