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Bruno Mathsson
€3,500.00Designed 1940 and made in 1941
Literature: Dag Widman, Karin Winter & Nina Stritzler-Levine, ’Bruno Mathsson’, Bokförlaget Arena 2006, pp. 78-79
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Poul Kjærholm
A pair of important early PK25 chairs
€160,000.00In 1951 Hans Wegner assigned his students at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen the graduation project of furnishing the living room of a well-known Danish architect. Kjærholm who was a student at the time, chose Halldor Gunnløgsson and designed an unusual chair he called the ‘Element’ chair.
Kjærholm’s idea was simple yet very complex. The frame of the chair was made from a single piece of steel which was then press bent to form the legs, seat and back. Finally it was wrapped with natural colored halyard to provide the seat and back.
On the advice of Hans Wegner, Fritz Hansen hired Kjærholm in 1952 to come work for them. In the short period Kjærholm worked for Fritz Hansen, only a very few examples of the chair were made.
In 1956 Kjærholm began his collaboration with E. Kold Christensen and in 1960 the chair was put into production. At the same time, it was renamed from the ‘Element’ chair to chair no. 25.
The first three examples produced by Fritz Hansen were purchased by Halldor Gunnløgsson and the present chairs are two of the three.
Provenance: The family of Halldor Gunnløgsson
Literature: Michael Sheridan ‘The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm: Catalogue Raisonné’, Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2008, pp. 20-23.
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Finn Juhl
Set of ‘NV53’ easy chairs and sofa
€90,000.00Designed in 1953. Presented at the Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibition the same year.
Each chair stamped by cabinetmaker Niels Vodder
Literature: Grete Jalk, ’40 Years of Danish Furniture Design – The Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibitions’. Volume 3 pp. 270-271
Measurements:
Chairs: W: 72 cm D: 78 cm H: 75 cm Seat: 36 cm
Sofa: W: 131 cm D: 78 cm H: 75 cm Seat: 36 cm
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Ib Kofod Larsen
The ‘Elizabeth’ easy chair and sofa
€75,000.00Designed in 1956. Presented at the Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibition the same year
The chair and sofa received the name ‘Elizabeth’ after Queen Elizabeth II acquired an example during a state visit to Denmark in 1958
Literature: Grete Jalk, ’40 Years of Danish Furniture Design – The Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibitions’. Volume 3 pp. 364-365
Measurements:.
Chair: W: 79 cm D: 77 cm H: 70.5 cm Seat: 36 cm
Sofa: W: 143 cm D: 77 cm H: 70.5 cm Seat: 36 cm
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Hans J. Wegner
€22,500.00The shell chair and bench are among Wegner’s early works in plywood. The set was designed in 1948 and it’s among the few designs Wegner made for Fritz Hansen. Model no. FH1936 and FH1935
Literature: Christian Holmsted Olsen, ’WEGNER – Just one good chair’, Hatje Cantz Verlag 2014, p. 166