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How comfortable is the Womb Chair, actually?
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Aug 8th 2020
Eero Saarinen
designed the Womb Chair in 1946 after a brief meeting with Florence Knoll at
the Cranbrook Academy of Art. According to history, she told him that she
wanted a chair that she could ju
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Design as Icon: The Womb Chair
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Dec 19th 2018
Created in 1946, the Womb chair
was designed to try and retrieve a feeling of comfort that, according to its
designer, could not be felt by anyone after they’d left their mother’s womb.
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