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Hanging Egg Chair

A rattan chair shaped like an egg that hangs from a chain, designed by Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel in 1959 and woven by hand for Sika-Design.

Designed by
Nanna & Jørgen Ditzel
First made
1959

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Hanging Egg Chair by a window
Hanging Egg Chair by a window
Hanging Egg Chair in natural rattan, hanging from its chain
Hanging Egg Chair in natural rattan, hanging from its chain

Pictures © Sika-Design, from sika-design.com.

Why it is renowned

When the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen gave Nanna Ditzel a solo exhibition, Breaking Free, in 2025, it named the Hanging Egg first among her designs: a chair that lets the body, held in rattan, float in space.1 Wallpaper* opened its account of the works on show with the chair.2

Recognition

  • Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen12025the chair in its exhibition Nanna Ditzel: Breaking Free
  • Wallpaper*22025the chair first among the works in its exhibition review

The story

Through the 1950s Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel tried out new ways of sitting, and in 1959 they hung a curved, egg-shaped wicker shell from a chain, so that the sitter rocks gently inside it.3 The couple had set up their studio in 1946 and began to work in wicker in 1950.4 Today Sika-Design makes the chair in its ICONS range, working with the designers' descendants, and Yamakawa makes it as well.43 Sika-Design's chair is woven by hand from Indonesian rattan.4 It hangs either from a ceiling chain or from a stand.4

  • Madame Lounge Chair, the Ditzels' rattan lounge chair of 1951, also by Sika-Design
  • Hallingdal, Nanna Ditzel's upholstery fabric for Kvadrat, 1965
  • Egg chair, Arne Jacobsen's Egg, drawn a year earlier
Sources
  1. New Exhibition at Danish Architecture Center: Nanna Ditzel, Breaking Free. dac.dk, read 17 October 2026.
  2. Danish Architecture Center celebrates Nanna Ditzel, Wallpaper*. wallpaper.com, read 17 October 2026.
  3. Hanging Egg Chair, Nanna Ditzel Design. nanna-ditzel-design.dk, read 17 October 2026.
  4. Hanging Egg Chair, Sika-Design. sika-design.com, read 17 October 2026.

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