Tomato Chair
1971
Mushroom Stool
1961
“My first commercial design idea was a cane stool which I wove myself in 1954.
It was the first version of the Mushroom. The first fibreglass samples were only
produced in the 1970s, and 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.”
“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.”
