Bubble Chair

Based on the idea of the Ball Chair the Bubble Chair is a reduction of this design. That’s what the designer Eero Aarnio himself said about it: “After I had made the Ball Chair I wanted to have the light inside it and so I had the idea of a transparent ball where light comes from all directions. The only suitable material is acrylic which is heated and blown into shape like a soap bubble. Since I knew that the dome-shaped skylights are made in this way I contacted the manufacturer and asked if it would be technically possible to blow a bubble that is bigger than a hemisphere. The answer was yes. I had a steel ring made, the bubble was blown and cushions were added and the chair was ready. The Bubble Chair was born. There is no nice way to make a clear pedestal.” That is the lucky reason why the Bubble Chair hangs from the ceiling.

Like the Ball Chair the Bubble Chair also impresses the user by the special acoustics. The Bubble Chair swallows the sounds and you feel isolated inside in a pleasant way, even when you are in a crowded place. At the EXPO 2000 in Hannover eleven Bubble Chairs were installed in the Cycle Bowl "Blue Box" of the Grüne Punkt Deutschland Pavilion as small, individual information spaces within the library. The Norwegian phone company Telenor has installed some Bubble Chairs in the entrance hall of their new building in Oslo to offer calm "rooms" for mobile phoning. The transparent chair is used in music videos, advertising and fashion magazines.

The Bubble Chair is available in differently coloured leather covers and with a silver canvas cover. Please tell us about your favourite one when ordering.

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