UNAVAILABLE-Early Womb Chair & Ottoman

This example is all original with exception of newer replacement feet pads. The cushion to the ottoman is not to be found but easily reproduced as Knoll still has this blue material. The foam is still in great condition. The paper label has been removed at some point and time. No rips or snags that we can see. Metal is original paint. Was in one home its whole life.

Shortly after Florence Knoll joined her husband, Hans in the running of Knoll , she presented the Finnish-born designer Eero Saarinen with a request: to create for her the world’s most comfortable chair, something, Saarinen recalls, that felt like “a basket full of pillows.” Saarinen went primal and organic coming off the MoMA design competition with Charles Eames . What, the designer figured, better signifies the very essence of comfort than the womb ? "It was designed on the theory that a great number of people have never really felt comfortable and secure since they left the womb,” the designer said of his chair, which began production in 1948 ottoman to follow in 1950 . The Womb chair, is genius in its simplicity. Comprised of few materials, the chair consists of a fabric covered foam over molded fiberglass shell set on a base of wrought iron . The skeletal look of the frame keeps the chair from appearing bulky despite the seat’s oversized form . It is the modernist replacement of an overstuffed wing type chair . "There seemed to be a need for a large and really comfortable chair to take the place of the old overstuffed chair,” Saarinen once said of his concept.