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Ask Casa: Kate Walsh's Egg Chairs

CasaSugar — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:00:45 -0800

Hi Casa!
I need your help. I recently saw Kate Walsh's home in In Style magazine. In her living room there are two egg chairs with a beautiful yet simple print on them. I am obsessed with finding these chairs or something very similar. They are all I think about! Please help. I am moving into my own my place soon and it won't be home unless I find those chairs or something similar.
Thanks,
Erica3am

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Hi Erica,

I adore those chairs as well! My best guess is that she had them custom upholstered. The Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair is a classic of modern design, and celebrated its 50th anniversary two years ago. You can buy licensed reproductions of this chair from stores such as Design Within Reach or Hive Modern, but they will cost you upwards of $6,000 apiece.

If you're not averse to buying a knockoff, I'd check out eBay for some choices, such as this custom-made Egg Chair, which comes in a variety of upholstery choices. You might even be able to specify the exact fabric you want. This Egg Chair, also available in custom colors (and perhaps, the exact fabric you are looking for), is also a very good deal, at just under $500 per chair. Again, if you are not opposed to the use of a knockoff, these are good routes to take to get the exact look you want.

Hope this helps!
Casa

The Iconic Egg Chair's Guide to the Galaxy

CasaSugar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:15:19 -0700

If, like me, you're a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, good news: the latest book in Douglas Adams's series has recently been released, with And Another Thing . . . written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. But what does this have to do with interior decorating, you ask? Well, a lot! Since the iconic Arne Jacobsen Egg chair is featured in Colfer's book, a limited-edition version of the egg chair was created by Fritz Hansen in collaboration with Lost Weekend and Penguin Group. The redesign features an embroidered, colorful array of lines on the back of the chair, representing an exploding Earth. Each chair is made from white hide and comes with a coordinating cowhide pillow. A matching footstool will also be available for sale as well. Only 42 chairs will be made, so these are definitely collector's items.

If you're in New York, stop by the Union Square Barnes and Noble at 7 p.m. this evening to check out a reading by Colfer, and one of the iconic chair redesigns, in person!

Who Designed Marc Jacobs's Chair?

CasaSugar — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:30:15 -0700

Marc Jacobs sits quite bare in his Paris apartment in an Egg Chair. Can you name the designer of the chair?

Alexander McQueen Debuts Limited-Edition Egg Chair

CasaSugar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:40:00 -0700

Alexander McQueen is taking his talent from the runway to your living room. The Egg Chair, which he created in 2002 as part of his store design - not to be confused with Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair - will be produced in a limited-edition run of five chairs, available to buy this month in his London and New York boutiques. The chairs will feature his iconic houndstooth print from the AW09/10 women's collection, "The Horn of Plenty." If you're not one of the lucky five this time around, you can have another shot at bringing McQueen home when a second version is launched around Christmas 2009. Want to see a close-up of the chair? It has skull zippers! Then read more.

Cool Idea: Hanging Furniture For Your Home

CasaSugar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:36 -0700

When furnishing this year's Hampton Designer Showhouse, Manhattan-based interior designer Brad Ford made the unusual, and delightful, decision to replace sofas with porch swings. Inspired by Ford's out-of-the-box decision, I decided to check out some other hanging furniture that would look great on the inside of your home. While some of the choices are classics, others are definitely a bit more unusual. In every case, though, these hanging chairs and swings add an element of whimsy and excitement to the rooms in which they are placed.
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This Just In: Arne Jacobsen's Classic Egg Chair Reimagined

CasaSugar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:30:10 -0700

To celebrate 50 years of the iconic Arne Jacobsen Egg chair, artist Tal R has created 50 unique designs of the chair, which were revealed this past week at the furniture fair in Milan. The 50 designs will be exhibited at Galleria Carla Sozzani through April 27, and then will travel to galleries and museums around the world.

The patchwork-quilt Egg chair designs are made from materials collected in such far corners as Istanbul and Denmark. "The whole point was to make a chair that tells a multitude of stories. So the pieces of cloth had to be full of life. It should look a bit as if it was homemade," explains Tal R.

I love this unexpected take on the Egg chair. Are you a fan as well?

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Crave Worthy: The Lobster Chair

CasaSugar — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:00:53 -0800

Just as the Egg Chair celebrates its 50th year, it's only fitting that an equally delightful, yet derivative, design come to shore. Welcome the Lobster Chair (inquire for price). Created by yet another Danish firm, Lund & Paarmann, "Lobster" looks suspiciously similar to Mr. Egg Chair, but exudes the crustacean confidence and craftsmanship that you'll just want to get your claws into. Its shell is laminated, bentwood with a walnut veneer at the back. Inside the shell is Pantera foam, a very durable and eco-safe foam, and its fabrics and leather are built to last. The chair's swivel base is chrome-plated steel. Lobster also has a marine chair pal called "Shelley." To meet Shelley, read more.

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This Just In: Happy 50th Mr. Egg Chair!

CasaSugar — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:40:29 -0800

The world famous Egg chair, designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1958 and manufactured by Fritz Hansen, will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year by releasing 999 limited-edition designs. The limited-edition collection will debut a chocolate-brown suede back and chocolate-brown leather upholstery, and a hand-polished, solid-bronze base. Each chair will be marked with a unique number and brief history of the celebrated design, and be accompanied by a limited-edition 50th anniversary book. The Egg chair was originally designed for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark and can be seen around the world in the National Art Center in Tokyo, high-end hotels, and private homes. The 999 limited-edition designs will be available for purchase in select stores beginning Feb. 1.
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Sex and the City: Carrie's Marvelous Mexico Egg Chair

CasaSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:45:53 -0700

While I'm absolutely in love with Carrie's new apartment, there are many other aspects of the Sex and the City movie set that I'm equally in love with. One of these would have to be the wicker egg chair from the fab four's Mexico vacation.

I think that this chair is a brilliant casting choice; its design perfectly mirrors Carrie's emotional state in this scene in the movie, and provides welcome shelter to her, even as Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte soak in the sun. In my interview with production designer Jeremy Conway, he told me that the wicker egg chair was from an outdoor furniture store in Los Angeles, where the Mexico vacation scenes were shot. However, if you're coveting this chair and aren't in LA, I have another source for you, which I'll tell you about when you read more.

While not an exact match for Carrie's more cocoon-like chair, the Palmetto All-Weather Wicker Chair ($1,299), which I asked your opinion about just last month. Do you like Carrie's chair better than the Palmetto? Tell me in the comments.

Photo courtesy Craig Blankenhorn/New Line Cinema
©2008 New Line Cinema

Love It or Hate It? Palmetto Honey All-Weather Wicker Egg Chair

CasaSugar — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:13 -0700

I'm on the fence on this one, readers. It's kind of cool, but it's also bizarrely spacepod-like, down to the porthole "windows" on the sides. The Palmetto Honey All-Weather Wicker Egg Chair ($1,299) is water-repellent, weather-resistant, and made from a durable-aluminum frame covered in wicker. Can you see its charm, or is it just too odd for you?