The inspiration behind Egg Collective…
Each of us has parents who are entrepreneurs, so it seems we all inherited a bit of their entrepreneurial spirit. Forming a company together was something that we, at first, joked about, then toyed with, and finally committed to after collaborating with each other for close to 10 years. At that point we felt we knew ourselves, and our craft, well enough to commit to designing one collection of furniture. We moved to New York City in the fall of 2012 and released our first collection of furniture nine months later at ICFF. That period of time was one of those super-important, fuck-it, throw-caution-to-the-wind moments where we jumped into the unknown and waited to see what would happen next.

The story behind the name…
Our name, Egg Collective, predates the company. We picked it when we were 22 and had just graduated from school. We each were looking for jobs but also wanted to establish our own design practice, so we committed to meeting once a week for a collective meal and design session. Naming something has a way of legitimizing it, so during one of those meals/meetings we decided that we wanted to give our group a name under which to operate. We were young and didn’t know what would come from the work we were creating together; we chose the name Egg Collective because we like that the egg references both incubation and creation while also being a naturally occurring structural and sculptural form.

Our design inspirations include…
Confident women. Recently we were on a panel with a fantastic selection of young entrepreneurs, and we were surrounded by so many other women! It is still rare to meet female counterparts in our industry — meeting other females who are running creative companies is truly inspirational.