'Garden Egg' by Peter Ghyczy​

Chair 'Garden Egg' designed by Hungarian refugee Peter Ghyczy in 1967 is an example of postmodern piece of art and demonstrates new technique for plastic production in the late 1960s. It was one of artist's first projects made with Polyurethane. Construction of it represents typical features for this period such as cosmic look, similar to Ufo form and lacquered plastic with tonus fabric. The chair's exterior is resistant to all weather conditions while the interior is soft and comfortable. It is suitable both for interior use as well as outdoors.

His career started while working as a main designer in a polyurethane factory in Lemforde. He was asked to develop products in order to show a creative potential of the material that company promoted. The challenge was to create something that would be difficult to manufacture using other materials than polyurethane.

At first, it was mainly distributed for the West Germany. It was not so popular because of its price which was almost as high as a salary of average person. Thanks to exhibitions and fairs because although the price and the fact that production of this chair stopped after two or three years, it still became an iconic product among many prople which makes it a succesful design. It was even collected by a prestigous fashion designer - Karl Lagerfeld.

REFERENCES

1. Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2016; Available at:http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/the-garden-egg-chair/

2. Ghyczy Design Selection BV 2015; Available at: https://www.ghyczy.com/product/garden-egg-chair/

3. A-Zdvent calendar 2014; Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2014/12/07/dezeens-a-zdvent-calendar-garden-egg-chair-peter-ghyczy-plastic/