Fredrick Ramond Opus Sconces with Egg Glass
I grew up in an Americanized-Chinese household and our family dyed Easter eggs in Spring but ate hardboiled eggs year-round. Chinese celebrations included magenta red eggs for baby celebrations and gingered eggs for new mothers. Dyed tea eggs and five spice eggs were good anytime.
Why has the “egg chair” become so ubiquitous for 2012 home decor? For example, you can find vinyl corded egg chairs for $395 featured on Remodelista. You can also find natural material, plastic and fiberglass egg chairs displayed on Pinterest. Why will customers be ordering Opus egg-shaped sconces by Fredrick Ramond Lighting in the new year?
Egg Chair
If the first egg chair was made popular by Bauhaus designer Arne Jacobsen in 1956, why is this shape making a comeback? Why will the floor lamp by Lite Source, below, be in high demand?
Lite Source Egg Floor Light
Benjamin Moore’s Colorpulse convention relayed that the egg shape is a hot decor trend for the upcoming year. It falls under the idea of “protection”. The “protection” trend includes birdcages and gauze. What do eggs, birdcages and gauze share in common? All three protect something that it shrouds. Although eggshells, wire cages and gauze mesh are vulnerable materials, they buffer the outside world from what they protect. This is one of the four themes of the color and home decor trends for 2012. The egg is also a universal symbol of rebirth and renewal. The egg shape is also considered a futuristic shape. For instance, many science fiction films featured Jacobsen’s egg chair in the 1960s. Likewise, Finnish Designer Eero Aarnio created the ball chair and the bubble chair during the ’60s.
Eero Aarnio Bubble Chair
Though speakers are available as an accessory to the egg chair, ball chair and bubble chair, the basic model cocoons the sitter from outside noise. The shell the shields the sitter varies in levels of transparency and opaqueness. Some modern interpretations fill the round chair with soft cushions and lined walls. Others suspend the ovoid chair so that it hangs rather than sits on a pedestal. Whether clear, translucent or opaque, the egg-shaped chair has made a revival.
Will you choose the modern round chair at all? Do you prefer sitting in a fragment of shell, an egg cup or hanging ovoid ornament? Bauhaus 2 Your House sells their egg chair for $3,650. The swivel lounge chair has an upholstered seat and rigid foam shell. Its base is aluminum and steel. For all these egg chairs, you don’t have to choose white. You can choose primary colors or black. You can even choose gold interiors. The egg and dart pattern used in the <a href=”http://www.affordablelamps.com/justice-design.html”>Justice Design Lighting</a> fixture below borrows a common pattern from Greek and Roman statues.
Egg and Dart Sconces by Justice Design Lighting
My favorite interpretation of the upcoming year’s egg theme isn’t a protective chair but an indulgent whimsical rug. It’s a double yolk pillowed white shag rug! You can find this “fried egg” throw rug by Architect Valentina Audrito on BoingBoing.net.
If individuals are not attracted to the egg motif because of a desire to return to the womb, then it’s likely because of the renewed interest in the farm by urban dwellers. Some cities have amateur chicken farmers. Why buy organic eggs at the store when you can raise them yourself? That would explain the rise luxury urban chicken residences by designers BKLYN and raadstudio. In some cases, the chicken co-ops sell for around $3,000. Because of increased concern about animal raising practices for human consumption, some individuals are raising their chickens in clean, comfortable, spacious homes.
Urban Chicken Raising
Furthermore, you’ll see this mix of country and urban modern in industrial chic decor. This is also called the “new rustic”. You’ll notice mainstream interior design blogs adopt DIYs for reclaimed wood and found metal from farms. If you are not ready to exchange your carpeting for reclaimed oak from barns, you can take part in the egg and farm trend by referencing agriculture in subtle ways. For instance, you can buy Marcel Wanders porcelain egg vase manufactured by moooi for $133. Another glam way to introduce eggs as home decor is to display turquoise eggs. Depending on the size and quality of turquoise, this can cost between $4 to $50. For instance you can purchase a turquoise chip gemstone egg for $10 at an ordinary crystal and rock shop.
