Bean bag chair

The original bean bag design, the Sacco chair, is also commonly known as a beanbag chair or simply a beanbag. The Sacco was introduced by three Italian designers in 1968, and became "one of the icons of the Italian anti-design movement. Its complete flexibility and formlessness made it the perfect antidote to the static formalism of mainstream Italian furniture of the period," according to design historian Penny Spark.

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