Eames The Founder of the mid century design

Charles Eames was undoubtedly the founder of modern classic furniture and mid century design. He was a top revolutionary designer who stood up amongst his contemporaries and became an American household name and a international iconic designer.He was the first furniture designer in the history of modern classics furniture to introduce and apply a new technologies and techniques on his furniture designs.Modern classic furniture bloomed in revolutionary way by Charles Eames furniture Designs.His combined knowledge of architectural designs and the new technologies allowed him to break the boundaries of the classic conventional furniture designs and create a modern vision in home furnishing and furniture designs.Eames pioneered all new technologies and designed furniture made of plywood,fibreglass,wire rod,reinforced plastic and other materials were completely alien and new territory during the mid century. Eames revolution in modern classics furniture started well before the mid century.His major challenge was to design a single piece of furniture from a single shell without using the classic methods of woods and heavy traditional materials and that led him to collaborate with Eero Saarinen in 1940 to design the organic chair during the competition of *Organic Design in Home Furnishing* organised by the museum of modern Art in New York.The organic chair was the starting point of the mid century modern design.The chair witnessed a huge success and attracted a massive interests amongst artists and furniture designers and was awarded the first winning price,unfortunately the organic chair reproductions discontinued because of the secons world wartime conditions.Eames spirit was not defeated by the breaking of the second world war.Designing furniture was his deepest passion and greatest power to fight the war and inspire the world by the mid century modern design,Eames furniture designs were not inspired by cheer necessity but driven by a powerful mind and deep sens to change the world after the war and create a completely a new environment and modern living urban space..Eames is very well remembered by his powerful designer mind and the rich variety of his design ideas and techniques.Furniture companies,Artists and furniture designers realised the revolutionary ideas and inspirations in Eames furniture designs.That is simply the reason why Eames furniture reproductions spread quickly around the world .More than half of a century yet still regarded internationally modern and undeniably elegant.Looking to the details of every single iconic design made by Eames and soon you realise that Eames was truly a revolutionary furniture designer with a mission to change the world by inspiring the mid century modern design and founding the basics of modern classics furniture and the basics of human needs when it comes to sheer comfort and style.

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Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair Story

 The Story of Jacobsen's Egg Chair

The Egg chair is undoubtedly, the most sculptural and iconic design of Arne jacobsen's furniture inspirations, this timeless lounge chair is very notable for its organic, rounded Egg shape and short swivel base. Jacobsen designed his famous Egg chair  in 1958, exclusively for the Radison Hotel in Copenhagen, which was part of the biggest Scandinavian airline company. The Radisson Hotel was one of Jacobsen's major projects and architectural achievement, the hotel was the largest and the tallest skyscraper in Copenhagen at that time. Jacobsen was determined to accomplish his architectural building project, by designing the ultimate furniture for the lobby area of the Hotel. The picture showing this designer classic lounge chair, standing as a sculptural feature in the middle of the reception area of the Royal hotel, a true statement in furniture design and architecture , combined together to create the ultimate international modern style.

The danish architect and furniture designer Arnie Jacobsen was one of the top leading designers of Bauhaus design. He is considered to be the founder of the modern international style, and very well remembered for his work, notably the egg chair, swan chair, the swan sofa, his collection of designer lights and other timeless classic designs.
During the mid of the 20th century, furniture evolved side by side with architectural and technological progress. Instead of the traditional classic furniture with its heavy, carved wood, and dark materials, Jacobsen introduced the new technological applications and materials at that time for his furniture inspirations. His  concept of design was based on lightness, minimalistic style, sculptural figures and excellent craftsmanship. Jacobsen managed to brake the traditional methods by designing the body of the Egg Chair in non conventional shape, from a light weight plaster shell, and injecting it with synthetic foam which make the Egg Chair very comfortable, and very light. Jacobsen egg chair reproductions was later followed by even lighter models made of fibreglass and polyurethane foam. The egg chair reproductions furniture is extremely lighter now days, with an overall weight of 18 kg. 


Only a limited production of egg chairs have ever made by the danish furniture  company Fritz Hanzen, they were very expensive up, to 60.000UD each. The Fritz Hanzen had the full exclusivity on its production licence and made exclusively for the Royal hotel, that,s why there are very few originals, some of them displayed in  museums, Art gallery or owned by specialised collectors. 

The Fritz Hanzen released a special edition of 50 egg chairs at the celebration of its 50Th anniversary. Each egg chair was released with a special stamped signature of arnie jacobsen. In addition to the egg chair original design which was notable for its curvaceous and rounded egg shell shape, the danish furniture company the Fritz also manufactured the egg chair in couch version, unfortunately the egg Chair Couch furniture reproduction did not last long, and did not witness any success because of manufacturing issues and high cost production, the project was soon dropped by the Frtiz manufacturing company.

Few critics argued that, Arnie Jacobsen was inspired in his egg chair design by the womb chair, which was designed by the finish furniture designer Eero Saarinen. Although the egg chair was designed nearly 60 years ago, it always stands out as a unique iconic design and one of the best furniture designs ever made in modern classic furniture history.

In 2008, Fritz Hansen celebrated the 50th anniversary of the egg chair, by producing a limited edition Fritz Hansen said :“We wanted to create something special to celebrate the golden anniversary of this legendary design”.

I really wonder who are the lucky ones who got their hands on one of Jacobsen's Egg chair latest edition ?

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The mid century was a very dynamic period of history in modern classic furniture.Most of our iconic modern furniture designs were created well before the 1960s,yet still regarded internationally as the best furniture pieces ever invented in our modern age.The furniture designers such as Charles Eames,Arnie Jacobsen,Harry Bertoie,Van der Rhoe,Eero Saarinen,le Corbusier became not only a household names but international icons in modern classics furniture,they revolutionise the international style and the concept of furniture designs and change the way we perceive and innovate our living space.Not surprisingly the furniture designers of the mid century had produced the most iconic furniture designs in our history and not surprisingly most of our modern classics furniture designers had pioneered all new technologies and had a very unique talent in architectural designs and theories.Architectural revolution and technological progress had a deep impact on modern classic furniture.The impact of technology is clearly visible on arne jacobsen,Charles Eames and Harry Bertoia designs and many more designers specifically the experiments with the plywood products.

Undeniably,One of the most iconic furniture designers of modern classics furniture was Arne Jacobsen (11 feb1902-24 March 1972).The father inventor of the 20TH century international style.
Jacobsen was a famous danish architect,artist and furniture designer.He stood out as one of the top furniture designers of the 20Th century.He was the most influential artist figure in the danish modern style and modern classics furniture ..He is very remembered for his iconic furniture designs such as the Ant chair,the seven series chairs,the swan chair and his famous iconic design the Egg chair.Most of Arnie Jacobsen furniture designs became classic pieces during his lifetime and he was known as the father of the modern international style. Jacobsen reproductions furniture never stopped for over half of a century.his iconic furniture designs were regarded internationally modern and undeniably elegant and his reproductions furniture were mass reproduced world wide.Arne jacoben founded the modern classic furniture and inspired designers and furniture reproduction for decades.Jacobsen is also very well remembered for his architectural projects which became iconic landmarks in modern architecture.The mid of the 20TH century was a very dynamic period of inspiration and evolution in art,science and furniture designs and Jacobsen was right in the heart of this revolutionary movement.He stood out in all areas of architecture,,porcelain,textile and furniture designs and contributed not only in developing the modern danish style but also creating a new vision and styles which form the concept and foundation of modern classic furniture.
Arnie Jacobsen loved art of painting from his early years and wanted to to become a professional painter but his parents encouraged him to pursue architecture .
jacoben started his career as a mason learning the basic of construction building then he joined the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied architecture from 1924 till 1927.During his university career in 1925 Jacobsen travelled to france where he meet the architect and furniture designer le Corbusier and participated in the paris Art Decor Fair,not surprisingly he won a silver medal for a chair design.Jacobsen also travelled to Germany where he meet another iconic furniture designer the German Van der Rhoe who clearly influenced his early architectural designs.Jacobsen designed the belvue theatre which symbolise the beauty of the German Bauhaus style in its white cubist architecture.jacobsen had to face a considerable public opposition after the second world war because of his love affair with the german style.Soon Jacobson started modifying his designs projects and adding a danish identity to them.The Copenhagen hotel was a clear statement of his modern danish design.Jacobson also designed the remarkable St Catherine College in Oxford which granted a grade 1 listing for architecture in England.During the 50s Jacobsen started using the geometrical forms on his furniture designs such as the cubus,circle,triangle and creating a completely a new revolutionary concept about modern classics furniture and its characteristic furniture designs.Arnie Jacobson was inspired also by the famous and the legendary designer of modern classic furniture Charles Eames and his swivel chair and reproduction furniture designs.

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