Apr 20, 2008
As one of the ways Fritz Hansen is celebrating the Egg Chairs 50th anniversary they asked the contemporary artist Tal R, to cover 50 of the Arne Jacobsen designs. "This series of the Egg visually expresses its 50 years of fame as if every piece of textile represents a period of time with past and present trends; rather like a multi-colored genealogical tree"
The fabrics chosen by Tal were handpicked from places all over the world, including washed out work clothes from a kibbutz in Israel and a second hand shop in Denmark.
The 50 unique Eggs will exhibited at Galleria Carla Sozzani from 16th - 27th April 2008 after which they plan to travel to galleries around the world. Tal explains a little about the chairs "The whole point was to make a chair that tells a multitude of stories. So the pieces of cloth had to be full of life. It should look a bit as if it was homemade."
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel Tal was raised in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Danish academy of Arts and is now a professor at the Dussel-dorf Academy of Arts. You can read more about Tal and see some of his work here
Tal has been inspired in the past by the work and writings of Sigmund Freud, and this exhibition proved to be no different, giving each of the 50 eggs unique names, a few of which include: Martha (Freud’s wife), Irma (Freud’s ‘classic’ early dream analysis) and Adler (friend, doctor and psychologist to Freud).
+Read the original press release from Fritz Hansen here.
+Follow some more first hand reporting of Milan’s Design Week from the David Report
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Apr 13, 2008
For all of your proffesional renderings Turbosquid offers a Hi-Res Quality Mesh of the Fritz-Hansen Egg Chair. This model can be fully textured with whatever fabric you decide, and is ready to be rendered into your next client presentation. It comes with a .max and a .3ds file, and is currently running at $34.
For a little less detail, and for a much better price (free), you might try one of these Egg chair models out for a spin egg chair #1 + egg chair #2. The Google Sketchup warehouse also features a few of Arne’s other designs including the Swan the Swan Sofa, Series7Chair, and the Oxford chair.
Apr 12, 2008
"We want a model wearing nothing but the chair." This was the design objective for the egg chair and photographer Corey Weiner (portfolio:redsquarephoto) working for for dkVogue, a furniture retailer specializing in egg chairs. He also shot one with Arne’s other chair design the series7 chair, mimicking the famous Profumo Affair photo shoot with Christine Keeler.
Apr 12, 2008
For its golden anniversary, Fritz Hansen is launching a limited edition Egg Chair with engraving and book, here is an excerpt from the press release,
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Fritz Hansen will celebrate the 50th Anniversary in 2008 with 999 limited edition designs of the egg chair. The limited edition collection will include chocolate brown suede on the back and chocolate brown leather on the front. You can see the microsite for the project here. The base is in solid bronze and hand polished to create a unique finish to the chair. The bronze base will darken in appearance over time. Each of the 999 Eggs will be individually engraved, under the seat cushion, with a unique number and a brief text about chairs history.
The 999 limited edition designs will be available to purchase in selected stores across the globe from Feb-ruary 1st 2008.
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Apr 12, 2008
The fjord chair, designed by Patricia Urquiola for moroso in 2002 and now featured in the MOMA’s design collection. Its unique shape that was surely influenced on some level or another by Jaconsen’s furniture design. It is made up of a steel frame covered with injected cold foam. available with a swivel base, 4 legs or on a wheeled starbase. can also come with a matching footstool. You can pick up one of these Fjord chairs at Unicahome and MOMA’s design store.
You can see more of Patricia Urquiola’s work at Architonic.
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