Tomato
1971
Mushroom
1967
“Product ideas come to me in many different ways. For
this I thought ‘a-ha!’ – the Pastil chair floats, it can carry
a person across water, but it is not completely stable
for this purpose. If I added armrests and a more defined
chair back then it would be fun for the water, and so the
Tomato chair was born. It is named to reflect the two
round shapes when you look from the front: like the two
circles in the word tOmatO.”
“My first commercial design idea was a cane stool
which I wove myself in 1954. It was the first version of
the Mushroom. The idea for the fiberglass version came
in 1967 and the first fiberglass samples were produced
in the 1970s. The actual production did not start until
the end of the 1990s, but as the size, dimensions and
functions were the same, the name also stuck.”
