Garden Egg chair

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Garden Egg chair

Garden Egg chair
Designer	Peter Ghyczy
Date	1968
Materials	Polyurethane frame. Leather or fabric inner.
Style / tradition	Post-modernist
Sold by	Reuter Products (Germany)
Height	98 cm (39 in)
Width	84 cm (33 in)
Depth	74 cm (29 in)

The Garden Egg chair was designed by Peter Ghyczy 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 Netherlands.