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September 2, 2015 by tomdalzell

The Eero Aarnio Bell Chair

 

My friend decided to switch out the decor in his room.  He flirted with mid-century modern, but then settled on Danish modern.  Which includes Finnish modern.

Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio designed the ball chair in 1963.  It was a classic of modern industrial design.  In the original model, a red telephone was installed on the inside wall of the chair.

This was to be my friend’s first acquisition in his new decor. He gathered images.

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He then found one not far away from us.  We drove over and he bought it.  We got it home in the back of a neighbor’s pickup.

I had a pretty good idea what my friend was going to say about this post.  He was the one who latched onto the ball chair.  He was the one who gathered the photos used.

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One Response to The Eero Aarnio Bell Chair

  1. Irving Chen says:
    April 19, 2019 at 3:27 am

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    Good day!

    This is Irving Chen from JIAOHUI Furniture Co.ltd.We browsed your website and noted your product is similar with us. Our company is a professional fiberglass furniture manufacturer with years’s experience.

    We supply all kinds of fiberglass furniture, such as Beetle chair,Charles Eames chair table Eero Aarnio ball global chair Arne Jacobsen egg swan chair Eero Saarinen tulip chair table and more,which with good quality and very competitive cost.

    If you want to find a new supplier and find more fiberglass furniture.
    Please directly to contact us.

    Hope we can cooperate soon.

    Thanks and Best regards

    Irving

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