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Egg

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Overview

The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1959 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is manufactured by Republic of Fritz Hansen. Design The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, using state-of-the-art material. It is believed to be inspired by Eero Saarinen's "Womb chair", from which it borrows some traits. Related to the Egg is the Swan chair and, to some degree, many of Jacobsen's plywood chairs such as "7", the Ant, the Cigar, the Grand Prix-chair, the Pot, the Drop and the Giraffe.

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“I am egg and always will be, and we are eggs and always will be. Fried eggs. Or rotten eggs. Boiled eggs. Or scrambled eggs. Poached eggs. Or round eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
— Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams (2011).
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
— Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1877), ch. 8.
“O the hard-boiled eggs! There are two corner-stones necessary for a picnic — sunshine and hard-boiled eggs.”
— Norman Gale, A June Romance (Rugby: George E. Over, 1894), p. 82.
“When she saw me cooking eggs, she thought I was back at it.”
— Lil Wayne, "Stuntin' Like My Daddy", Like Father Like Son (2006), Cash Money Records Inc.
“Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.”
— Reported in Strauss, Emmanuel, Dictionary of European Proverbs (Routledge, 1998), , p. 75.
“You can't have an omelette unless you break the egg.”
— Meaning: You may have to sacrifice something in order to gain something else.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Egg: organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop · municipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria · music group · car

Overview

The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1959 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is manufactured by Republic of Fritz Hansen. Design The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, using state-of-the-art material. It is believed to be inspired by Eero Saarinen's "Womb chair", from which it borrows some traits. Related to the Egg is the Swan chair and, to some degree, many of Jacobsen's plywood chairs such as "7", the Ant, the Cigar, the Grand Prix-chair, the Pot, the Drop and the Giraffe.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“I am egg and always will be, and we are eggs and always will be. Fried eggs. Or rotten eggs. Boiled eggs. Or scrambled eggs. Poached eggs. Or round eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
— Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams (2011).
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
— Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1877), ch. 8.
“O the hard-boiled eggs! There are two corner-stones necessary for a picnic — sunshine and hard-boiled eggs.”
— Norman Gale, A June Romance (Rugby: George E. Over, 1894), p. 82.
“When she saw me cooking eggs, she thought I was back at it.”
— Lil Wayne, "Stuntin' Like My Daddy", Like Father Like Son (2006), Cash Money Records Inc.
“Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.”
— Reported in Strauss, Emmanuel, Dictionary of European Proverbs (Routledge, 1998), , p. 75.
“You can't have an omelette unless you break the egg.”
— Meaning: You may have to sacrifice something in order to gain something else.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.