2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Egg-Citing

Entrant Company

P A L Design Group

Category

Furniture Design - Home

Client's Name

Country / Region

Hong Kong SAR

Tucked within the contours of a shell, the world begins to recede. This sculptural, egg-shaped rocking chair invites you not simply to sit, but to drift—physically, emotionally, cosmically. In just half a square meter, it cradles the body and expands the mind.
Conceived as a “microcosmic universe,” “Egg-citing” is more than a feat of design, it is a quiet revolution in how we experience space, solitude, and technology. At a moment when design is shifting toward deep humanism, this chair offers a profound synthesis, syncing the rhythms of the body with the breath of nature, forging a digital dialogue with memory and place, and balancing material comfort with ecological responsibility.
Its curved interior, lined with soft textures, invites full recline. Above, a seamless transparent LED screen arches like a sky dome, streaming ever-shifting scenes: the shimmer of early sunlight through ocean waves, the lavender dusk over distant mountains. These visual tapestries are dynamically linked to ambient data with light, time, and weather—making every session a uniquely personal vignette.
Other than sight, integrated speakers hum with environmental sounds—wind threading through leaves, waves folding onto shore. The “Egg-citing” is more than a piece of furniture but a threshold between the self and something vaster.
The “Egg-citing” seat is at once intimate and exuberant. Its smooth shell cradles, protects, and even seems to listen in quiet sympathy. To recline within it is a primal meditation, a soft return to the first archetype of comfort and care.
In a time obsessed with scale and spectacle, the chair offers a radical inversion, a vast emotional terrain hidden within a small physical gesture. It reminds us that wonder doesn’t require distance. It can begin, gently, in the radius of a half-meter swing.

Credits

Executive Director/Profilia of West Germany Far East ltd
May Leung
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