1. Fritz Hansen~Egg Chair
Through half a century, still the dream work to the collectors

With the SAS Royal Hotel, built from 1956 to 1960, Jacobsen was given the opportunity to design
what has been called "the world's first designer hotel". He designed everything from the building including
Egg Chair and Swan Chair, and its furniture and fittings to the ashtrays sold in the souvenir shop and the airport buses.
The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen.
It is manufactured by Republic of Fritz Hansen. The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style,
where there was no fear of pushing the material to its limit, and often using entirely new materials to
make his designs come true. It is believed to be inspired by Eero Saarinen's "Womb chair", from
which it gains some traits. In many respects, though, the Egg is a much more complete design.
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