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Design Furniture Fritz Hansen

Egg chair

Arne Jacobsen's lounge chair with a high, curved shell, designed for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and made by Fritz Hansen.

Designed by
Arne Jacobsen
First made
1958

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An Egg chair in grey fabric by a window
An Egg chair in grey fabric by a window

Pictures © Fritz Hansen, from fritzhansen.com.

Why it is renowned

At the SAS Royal Hotel its organic shape softened the building's strict International Style.1 The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has held a black leather Egg by Fritz Hansen since 1968; its high back was meant to give a sitter some privacy in the hotel's public rooms.2 It stands at the gates of the renovated Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport.3

Recognition

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London21968a black leather Egg by Fritz Hansen in its collection

The story

Arne Jacobsen designed the Egg in 1958 for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, alongside the Swan chair.24 Fritz Hansen manufactures it in Denmark, and it has stayed in production since.2 The museum's chair has a shell moulded from polystyrene on a four-pronged cast aluminium base.2 Two whole cowhides only just cover a leather Egg.3 A sofa version was also made, in a handful of copies.3

  • Swan chair, its companion from the SAS Royal Hotel
  • AJ lamp, Arne Jacobsen's lamp for the same hotel
  • Series 7, by the same designer
  • KV1, Arne Jacobsen's one-handle kitchen mixer for VOLA
  • HV1, Arne Jacobsen's basin mixer of 1968 for VOLA
  • 111, Arne Jacobsen's one-handle build-in mixer for VOLA
Sources
  1. Egg chair 3316, Fritz Hansen. fritzhansen.com, read 28 September 2026.
  2. Egg armchair, Victoria and Albert Museum. api.vam.ac.uk, read 28 September 2026.
  3. Egg (chair), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
  4. Swan (chair), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.

Checked 17 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.