Work Of An Excellent Furniture Designer The Bubble Chair by Eero Aarnio

When you were a kid, you have most likely perceived yourself lying inside a giant soap bubble floating in the air. Now while the view of owning a actual bubble large and well-built enough to hold the weight of a child (let alone a full-grown person) is impossible, one can encounter the next finest thing with the Bubble Chair by Eero Aarnio.

In his long and productive career, the Finnish designer Eero Aarnio has created some of the most distinctive furniture creations of the 20th century. The Bubble Chair is among them. As its name signifies, the Bubble Chair is a hollow semi-spherical lounge chair completed of transparent but very durable acrylic material. The chair is also fixed with a steel support ring on the rim and a couple of silver vinyl or fabric cushions. And as a substitute for of having a typical ground pedestal, the Bubble is suspended on the ceiling through a long refined steel chain.

Aarnio intended the Bubble Chair in 1968 and was the heir to his previous design, the Ball Chair. After the Ball Chair’s triump finishing its exposure in 1963, Aarnio planned the chair remade to have a light inside it. This idea later on progressed into a transparent ball design wherein light go through in all directions. After performing some calls with number of skylight manufacturers, Aarnio determined to have the spherical body made from passionate and blown acrylic. The steel ring was then filled out for support, and polyurethane cushions inserted on the interior. The choice to have the Bubble attached on the ceiling, on the other hand, was inspired on Aarnio’s reflection that there was “no nice way to make a clear pedestal”.

Because of its uncommon design, the Bubble Chair has often been joined in international expositions, conventions and other prestigious public events as individual spaces or reading areas. The chair has also been notably shown on magazines, TV and film, with the most current being on the music video for the song “I’ve Gotta Feeling” by the hip-hop singers The Black Eyed Peas.