Like many egg-based chair designs, the Ovalia by Henrik Thor-Larson is a vintage classic. However, this is one vintage classic returning for a revamped re-release and a piece of design history available to buy now on limited supply. Debuting to immediate success at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair in 1968, this covetable ovum stayed on sale for a decade, but has now, with a few improvements, been relaunched in its original style for a new generation of egg-chair fanatics.

For more information of to make an inquiry visit www.ovalia.com

Award-winning Spanish designer, Andreu Beleguer, "Is always from a dynamic and multidisciplinary work," evident in the Cosmo Collection, for which he sought "to contribute a new concept of aesthetic, functional and constructive furniture." Available through TEYS, Cosmo is a 2000 x 800 x 540 mm chaise longue complimented by a 570 D x 333 mm auxiliary table.  It's a rigorous and elementally pliable collection which can be enjoyed both indoor or outdoor.

Available from TEYS

From the designer who brought us the fabulous Jeeves and Wooster pendant lights, comes this chair as gloriously imposing as its namesake. The Orson by Jake Phipps is an Oscar-worthy performer indeed, with it's devilishly dark mouldings and rotational, sculpted low seat. A formidable figure in home or office furnishings.

Visit Jake Phipps online at www.jakephipps.com

Taking a minimalist aproach this aluminium framed chair features a seating surface of stretched fabric, which sculpts itself to the form of the person sitting, supporting the arm, back, thigh, and the calves, for maximum comfort and a relaxed posture.

Designer Abhijeet Kumar studied at the National Institute of Design, specialising in industrial design and has gone on to work as a consultant in ahmedabad primarily in furniture and products.

You can view more of Abhijeet Kumar's work on his personal porfolia site at thingks.wordpress.com

Damian Barton is an America-based, Australian designer with an industrial and furniture design heritage who has garnered recognition through his form-friendly and functional pieces. Petal takes more than titular inspiration from nature, winding its floral form within a natural wood finish. However, upholding his stance to work with an array of materials and in keeping with the current trend for all things metallic, you can choose to put Petal to the metal with Aluminium Petal (as seen here,) if you'd prefer.  

Visit Damian Barton online at www.damianbarton.com

If you yearn to take your work global, then designer Michiel van der Kley can help you do just that. This personal mobile workstation for Gispen and Artifort can be used at the office or at home and, with it's rotating chair, offers flexibility aswell as mobility. This innovative pod design has a built-in, pull-out table top for you to work with or without a notebook. Globus features a white laquered Baydour shell and an aluminium cast base.

Available through hivemodern

Australian designer, Brodie Neill, takes a progressive approach to his work, and that is clearly evident here with the @ chair; a carbon fibre/chrome piece which is "a continuous morphing loop in the form of a single seating chair." Recently included in Time Magazine's most influential designs for 2008, the @ chair looks set, through its purity of form and temporal/cultural significance, to attain iconic status.

For more information or to contact Brodie Neill, visit www.brodieneill.com

Stephen Burks and his New York studio, Readymade Projects, work to produce creative design direction, interior and industrial design. Pleats, "an exciting alternative to public space seating," is a strikingly simplistic form based around a basic sofa concept, whereby the traditional steam pleating creates the details within. Available in a choice of colours, finishes and sizes upon request.

Enquiries can be made at www.modus.co.uk

Combining three of my favourite things – retro, round and orange, the DS 152 chair from de Sede has it all. Literally. The flat screen monitor pictured is also available as an option so that you can transform your ultra-comfortable sofa into a space age control centre for TV, video, DVD or Internet.

With enough room for two people, the DS 152's oval styling can provide the perfect snuggle place. If, however, you are prone to fighting over the remote or your other half simply doesn’t like the colour, then black and white versions are also available, so why not get two!

Visit de Sede online at www.desede.ch

The bubble chair has retained its iconic status since its inception in the '60's as 'Future Modern,' through to today's standing as the epitomical mark of retro cool. Rousseau's 'Wagiman' is an "illuminated bubble chair with bespoke "INSA" print engraved into [the] surface" and offers a deliciously decadent and seductive edge to future retro design.

Visit Rousseau at www.rousseau.co.uk

I love the vermicular undulating curves of this lounge chair by Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen for the Danish interior design company HAY.

Entitled “Blow”, the chair is made from polyurethan foam and is available in Grey, Army Green and Aubergine – one of my favourite colour palettes at the moment.

Available from PID

The MT2 Soft is Designed Ron Arad and is manufactured by Driade. This larger sibling of the MT1 armchair features an orange polyethylene core with black fabric cover (also available in white).

Visit  Driade online at www.driade.com

The new Magnolia chair by Jacco Bregonie is a complimentary mixture of design and architecture. The organic shaped seat oozes comfort and the structural base lends an industrial dimension. Satellite seating baby, for an out of this world contemporary cool.

For more information visit Artifort

I have often wondered if there can be anything better than an egg chair. Well, yes there can. Why be a lonely egg? With the Cosmos from Johanson Design you can enjoy the wholesome eggsome with the one you love.

Available in cream, white, red, green with various options for the base finish.

Perfect for nesting.

For more information visit Johanson Design

What was it about the 60’s that made designers obsessed with eggs? Whatever it was the idea has been poached for the 21st century, and boy do we still love it.

With The Outdoor Egg Chair by Peter Ghyczy, no longer do folk have to enjoy their yolk indoors. Fully portable and utterly weatherproof, this garden seat is made from UV-protected lacquer in silk gloss, in either a white, red, blue or metallic shell and a selection of contrasting colours are available for the teflon-guarded denim seat.

Available from designshopuk.com

Need to get to the bottom of stunning seating? No butts about it, the HER chair by Fabio Novembre is a beauty. Available through casamnia, this polyethylene chair is yours in black or white to grace with your posterior. A most striking way to get bummed-out.

Visit Casamani online at www.casamania.it

If like me you are a fan of sixties cool and like to add just a touch of it to your home, the Round Swivelling Tub Chair from Dwell is a great way to give a nod back to the future, embracing the optimism of that decade's designers. With it's ABS plastic outer, faux leather inner and chrome base the chair comes in at a more than reasonable price point. Personally I am rather taken by the white shown above, but there's also a black option for those wanting something a little more understated. You could even buy both and add them to a swinging monochrome lair.

Visit Dwell online at www.dwell.co.uk