Vintage - Egg Chair 3316 - Arne Jacobsen

Product code: CH185V
Purchased in: Denmark Designer: Arne Jacobsen Manufacturer: Fritz Hansen Design year: 1958 Serial number: FH3316

The Egg Chair is one of the most representative pieces of Scandinavian design, designed for the lobby space of the SAS Royal Hotel.
Before completing the Egg Chair, Jacobsen worked like a sculptor, repeatedly making prototypes out of wire and plaster in his garage, in pursuit of the perfect form for the shell. The chair was made using processed urethane foam, which was revolutionary at the time, and its distinctive enclosed form gently envelops the human body, providing a comfortable, reassuring seating experience.
Today, the Egg Chair is recognised throughout the world as one of Jacobsen's most iconic pieces and a monumental piece of Scandinavian craftsmanship.

About Arne Jacobsen (Denmark, 1902-1971) Arne Jacobsen, who grew up in Copenhagen, is said to have painted over the decorative Victorian wallpaper in his bedroom as a child with white paint. At a young age, he decided not to cover the walls with typical childish drawings or paint the flashy wallpaper a childish blue, but to paint the entire wall of the room white.
White walls are now commonly used, but at the beginning of the 20th century, white walls were far from common, and it can be said that from the very start, he had an innovative aesthetic sensibility that was ahead of its time.
Jacobsen later aspired to become a painter, but his father opposed his plans and he left home to work as a crew member on a passenger ship, but he was unable to overcome his seasickness and quit his job.
Later, his friend, the architect Flemming Lassen, encouraged him to pursue a career in architecture, which would allow him to make use of his talent for painting, and this talent blossomed. In 1929, together with Lassen, he presented a design for a futuristic house in a modernist style for a competition, which brought him instant recognition in Denmark as one of the pioneers of modernism, and he established his own office in the same year. In 1934, he is also known for designing one of his early masterpieces, the Bella Vista housing complex along Bellevue Beach.
When Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940, he fled to Sweden for fear of persecution, where he lived until the end of World War II, after which he resumed his active design career.
Many of Jacobsen's furniture designs have become models for the modern style, and his best-known work is the Seven Chair from 1955, which was also famous for being used in Louis Morley's famous nude photograph of Christine Keeler in 1963. (It is said that the chair used in the photograph was not the real Seven Chair but a replica, but this incident caused the Seven Chair to gain explosive popularity and recognition, so it is said that this was implicit.)
His representative works include the Scandinavian Airport Building, the National Bank of Denmark, the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, and various pieces of furniture that were produced to compose these buildings. The "Ant Chair (1952)" and "Seven Chair (1955)" are said to be the most sold chairs in the world, and the "Swan Chair" and "Egg Chair" produced in 1958 are still loved around the world.

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