Today we encounter the beanbag in homes, design museums, restaurants, hotels and shop windows. It is undeniably one of the most popular armchairs of our time. And who would have guessed that in 2008, the 'sacco' will be celebrated with a roaring success? "sacco" lavishly celebrated its 40th birthday, and the boom of constant design improvements seems to have no end.

Sacco means sack in Italian. Its shape is reminiscent of a large pear, made up of a large piece of material filled with polystyrene granules. It functions as a chair, but the difference is that when you sit on it, it moulds itself perfectly to your body. This back-relieving property has made the sack not only a super-comfortable element of interior design, but its benefits have also been recognised by doctors and therapists, who use it for rehabilitation, pregnant women for childbirth and babies, who are less bothered by colic. So the question is to whom to attribute this brilliant invention....

To find the answer we have to go all the way back to the history of post-war Italy. We have the 1950s, undeveloped industry, rising inflation and general social poverty.

Against these circumstances, there is an awakening among the designers, with an enthusiasm for finding new solutions. They simply wanted to design a new world and break with the past at all costs.

Dynamic, flexible

Ping-pong balls, glass, steel and rubber balls - all these solutions were either inconvenient, too heavy or too expensive. Until they came across the polyester foam used in construction. It was polystyrene pellets, which are still used to fill beanbags today, that were the answer to comfort and convenience. Small, light balls that perfectly adapt to the shape of the body allowed the creation of a modern form. Since that day, pouffes are not just hard and boring furniture - they have become an important element of design and one of the icons of pop art

Today, there are several hundred beanbag manufacturers in the world - these poufs have made an international career and are successfully sold in Europe, the United States and even in distant Australia and New Zealand. People have come to love the comfort of the seat.