The eye-catching work of the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen often introduces new collectors to mid-20th century furniture. With their fluid lines and sculptural presence, Jacobsen’s signature pieces — the elegant “Swan chair” and the cozy-yet-cutting edge “Egg chair,” both first presented in 1958 — are iconic representations of both the striking aesthetic of the designers of the era and their concomitant attention to practicality and comfort. Jacobsen designed furniture that had both gravitas and groove. Though Jacobsen is a paragon of Danish modernism, his approach to design was the least “Danish” of those who are counted as his peers. The designs of Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Børge Mogensen and others grew out of their studies as cabinetmakers. They prized skilled craftsmanship and their primary material was carved, turned and joined wood. Jacobsen was first and foremost an architect, and while he shared his colleagues’ devotion to quality of construction, he was far more open to other materials such as metal and fiberglass.
Many of Jacobsen’s best-known pieces had their origin in architectural commissions. His molded-plywood, three-legged “Ant chair” (1952) was first designed for the cafeteria of a pharmaceutical company headquarters. The tall-backed “Oxford chair” was made for the use of dons at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, whose Jacobsen-designed campus opened in 1963. The “Swan,” “Egg” and “Drop” chairs and the “AJ” desk lamp were all created as part of Jacobsen’s plan for the SAS Royal Copenhagen Hotel, which opened in 1960. (The hotel has since been redecorated, but one guest room has been preserved with all-Jacobsen accoutrements.) To Jacobsen’s mind, the chief merit of any design was practicality. He designed the first stainless-steel cutlery set made by the Danish silver company Georg Jensen; Jacobsen’s best-selling chair — the plywood “Series 7” — was created to provide lightweight, stackable seating for modern eat-in kitchens. But as you will see from the objects on these pages, style never took a backseat to function in Arne Jacobsen’s work.
His work merits a place in any modern design collection. The Ant (Danish: Myren)chair is a classic of modern chair design.[2] It was designed in 1952 by Arne Jacobsen for use in the canteen of the Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk. The Ant was named for its approximate similarity to the outline of an ant with its head raised. The chair was designed to be light, stable, easy to stack up, and to minimise tangling the user's feet. The original model had three plastic legs and a seat made from form-moulded laminated veneer; Novo ordered just 300 of them. They were manufactured by Fritz Hansen. The chair has since proved very popular although the plastic in the legs was replaced by tubular steel, and a version with four legs was also made. ^ danish Design store ^ Archived November 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. ^ Cn Bing Dictionary Egg™ easy chair, leather 3316, lounge chair, leather Base material: Width: Depth: Didn't find what you were looking for?
is of polyurethane foam with glass fibre reinforcement. The foam for the upholstery and the seat cushion is cold cured polyurethane foam. The shell has an adjustable tilt mechanism, which can be adjusted to the weight of the individual user. The tilt mechanism is made of steel, while the adjustment handle is made of polished stainless steel. consists of a satin polished swivel center part (diameter 38x2 mm) of welded steel tubing and a 4-star base in injection molded aluminium. The leg ferrules are in a black-grey synthetic material. Download Product fact postcard Peace be with all of you, I am in need of assistance in authenticating this Arne Jacobsen egg chair. Moreover, some of the information that the seller has provided is that the chair has been in her family since the early 60's and it has a tilt mechanism. However, there is no sticker label. Nonetheless, when did they begin offering the tilt mechanism? Could this possibly be the real thing and how much of a hassle will it be for an upholsterer to adhere the fabric back to the foam?
Lastly, she mentioned that the foam is still pliable and it doesn?t seem to have hardened. With this in mind, do you folks think that this is a good buy or should I walk away from the purchase? As always may you remain continually blessed lounge & easy chairs One of Arne Jacobsen’s most popular creations, the Series 7 chair from Fritz Hansen, gets a splash of color to mark its 60th anniversary. To honor the 60th anniversary of Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair, Fritz Hansen solicited the artistic talents of Tal R, who devised more than a dozen new colors for the design. Courtesy Fritz Hansen/Ditte Isager The Helsingborg Exhibition 1955 was the last World’s Fair to be held in Sweden, but it’s particularly memorable for another reason. It was there that one of the most iconic chairs in history debuted: Arne Jacobsen’s Series 7 chair for Fritz Hansen. Long before designers paid serious heed to ergonomics and anatomy, Jacobsen took the curves of the human body into account.
The gentle give in the Series 7’s plywood back accommodated different postures, while the waterfall seat edge provided unobtrusive support to the thighs. “Jacobsen took two resilient materials—laminated wood and steel tubing—and put them together in such a way that preserves that resilience, so that the seat and base flex slightly as we shift position in the chair,” says Michael Sheridan, author of Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen (Phaidon, 2011). “The connection between base and shell is rigid, but he used rubber bumpers to support the shell above the steel legs. These bumpers allow the shell to move slightly, responding as we shift our weight in the chair.” Even though the chair has been blatantly copied, it’s hard to match the original. A 2012 video by Fritz Hansen exposed the vast difference in quality between the original and knockoffs by having a man unceremoniously jump on the bend of the plywood back of a true Series 7 and two copies.
Both copies broke easily, while the real version held fast. In celebration of the Series 7’s 60th anniversary, Fritz Hansen sought the talents of Danish artist Tal R—known for his sharp eye for chromatics—to pick nine new colors for the chair. While creating the various hues, Tal R approached the task from a purely artistic perspective. “Art is the only field where mistakes, misunderstandings, and contradictions can be productive. So I wanted to introduce that into the colors and chairs—narratives,” the artist says. “When I came to red, for example, I wanted to think about Shanghai, and my imagination and misunderstanding of it. I wanted to find the color that resonated with that memory and that narrative. Colors need to be about necessity and obsession.” The ensuing spectrum injects a revitalized spirit into the classic, making it relevant to new audiences. Among the colors pictured below are nine chosen by Tal R: Chevalier is an aristocratic orange Egyptian Yellow harks to the past