• The first bean bag chairs were called the "Sacco".

• The Sacco bean bag chairs were made of leather.

• The Sacco bean bag chairs were pear-shaped.

• The Sacco bean bag chairs were filled with expanded polystyrene (styrofoam) beads, which made it formless and flexible.

• At first, many attempts to mass-produce the bean bag chairs failed.

• Once mass-production succeeded, the Sacco became the model for the bean bag chairs that sprouted up worldwide in the last 1960's.

• According to popular myth, the Sacco bean bag chairs were an accident, when polystyrene (styrofoam) off-cuts were thrown into a bag at the end of the styrofoam production line.

• The Sacco bean bag chairs were the first widely-popular product that expressed furniture as something that should move with the human body. The Sacco said that furniture did not have to be static and formal.

• The Sacco was an icon of "POP" culture.

• In the 1970's, Kenneth Edmunds found the Minneapolis Cuddlebag Bean Bag Co. This might be the first bean bags company to produce bean bag chairs in the USA (we don't have enough data yet to confirm).

• In July 1998, the first bean bag chairs with removable, washable covers plus water-repellent liners was created by AHH! Products.

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