The Garden Egg chair was designed by

Peter Ghyczy Peter Ghyczy (1 December 1940 – 10 March 2022) was a German designer of Hungarian origin, who lived in the Netherlands. Biography Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family, grew up in Buda, a fine district of Budapest. After t ...

in 1968. It was manufactured by Reuter Products. The chair was designed for both indoor and outdoor use, although as a design icon and collectable it is rarely used outdoors. The chair lid lifts and closes, and when closed is theoretically waterproof. The Egg chair was re-introduced in 2001 by Ghyczy Novo. The Garden Egg Chair is known by several names: seftenberger ei, pod chair, l’œuf en garden(egg)chair. Elastogran/Reuter produced the plastic polyurethane. Ghyczy's job was to start a design centre in order to show industrial customers polyurethane's potential. The Garden Egg Chair is one of the first chairs made with polyurethane. For a long time, the chair was produced by the East German company VEB-Synthese-Werk, but since 1998, it has been produced in the

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Designer

(born 1940 in

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) left his native

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in 1956 because of the

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and moved to

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. Here he finished his high school and studied at the

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and University of Aachen. After graduating he started as head of the design department at Elastogran/Reuter where he developed the Garden Egg Chair in 1968. What he saw as traditional way of working at Elastogran/Reuter led him to leave the company in 1972. He moved to the

and started his own company, simply called Ghyczy.

Modern Interpretations

Modern garden egg chairs use the new rattan-effect synthetic material to create a woven basket like chair (often hanging from a frame) that simulates the original egg chair shape. They are often called a "hanging egg chair" or "rattan egg chair".

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External links

Official Ghyczy website

Official Garden Egg chair website

Garden Egg chair at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Chairs Individual models of furniture

Designer

Modern Interpretations

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