An historian dates the first finding & usage of bean bags were in ancient Egypt, may be around 2000 B.C. For few thousands of years, they were only used to play games and other entertainments & diversion only. The first ever bean bags were very small only, those were round shape and was made up of original animal leather.
Later, in our modern days, Bean bags was designed by Piero Gatti, Franco Teodoro and Cesare Paolini and manufactured by the Italian company Zanotta in the year 1969, Nowadays beanbags have become a globally recognised piece of furniture that is used in every living spaces
After it become popular in Italy by the late 1960s, the bean bags were soon available as soft seating almost every part of the world. In the 1970s, beanbags become popular in European, Asian and in North American countries, where they were used mostly in the college campuses,
And in India, Bean bags was introduced in Mumbai in early 1990s