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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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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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Finn Juhl
€28,000.00Designed in 1945. Presented at the Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibition the same year
The NV45 chair is one of the most elegant and simple designs by Juhl, yet the complexity of it’s structure made the chair one of the most difficult to manufacture
Esbjørn Hiort: ‘Finn Juhl’, The Danish Architectural press 1990, p. 34-35
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Hans J. Wegner
€8,000.00Designed 1954. The GE1 daybed was the first of Wegners pieces that was produced by Getama
Literature: ‘Dansk Kunsthaandværk’ no. 5-6, Landsforeningen Dansk Kunsthaandværk, 1955 pp. 90-91
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Poul Kjærholm
€10,000.00Designed 1961
Provenance: Erik Christian Sørensen
Literature: Michael Sheridan ‘The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm: Catalogue Raisonné’, Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2008, ill. and described pp. 124-127.