Italian designed bean bag chairs were a staple of Xerox PARC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot5iLcJ_clk
In the 1970s the popular Italian actor and comedian Paolo Villaggio poked fun at bean bag chairs, like in this clip (no need to understand Italian). In the movie he played Giandomenico Fracchia, a low-rank, subservient employee of a large corporation always eager to please and not annoy his bosses:
