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Design in 1965 for Fritz Hansen, Denmark. Aluminium frame with leather upholstery (reupholstered). Foil label. Dimensions: 60 x 64 x 127 cm. Note : The original version of the Oxford armchair was designed in 1963 for the professors at St. Catherine's College in Oxford. The chair's extra tall back both served as a symbol of prestige and created a space of its own. These professors chairs later evolved into the Oxford series introduced in 1965. In spite of initial protests & uproar over the commission of a foreign architect, Arne Jacobsen received an honorary doctorate from Oxford, upon his completion of the project. -
Herman Miller, Michigan USA. 1st generation stools with parchment fibreglass shell, spider base in reverse hammer tone dusky silver paint and stainless steel footring. Adjustable height with swivel mechanism. Cast company mark & paper label. 53 x 57 x 110/115 cm. Provenance : Medical college of Georgia. -
Glostrup Mobelfabrik, Denmark. Teak frame with cognac leather. Company stamp underneath. 68 x 75 x 85 cmHe is one of the lesser known furniture designers, whose woprk has suddenly been noticed and demand has been rising. His work is being acknowledged all over the world, and has been exhibited in New York’s MoMa and in La Triennale in Milano, Italy. He started his career as a shipbuilder but it was furniture designs that developed to be his driving force. In 1947 he got his own studio from where he worked as Furniture designer. During his career he developed all types of modern furniture and worked with many of the leading Scandinavian furniture factories of the period.
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Fredericia Stolefabrik, Denmark. Moulded plywood & tubular steel. 48,5 x 57 x 85 cm. paper label When designing the Trinidad chair in 1993, Nanna Ditzel found inspiration in trhe elaborate fretwork from fascades that she had seen in the Caribbean colonial architecture of Trinidad. Much like the fascades, the cut-out fretwork of the chair triggers an interplay of light and shadows, creating a pattern projected into space & a subtle sense of motion.


