Fritz Hansen Series 7 Chair

 

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The series 7, which was designed by Arne Jacobsen 1955, is the admiral of the Fritz Hansen collection.

“Finally a chair of Jacobsen with 4 legs and alternatively armrests!”, was agitated gladly called in the compactor 1955, when Fritz Hansen introduced the series 7 of the designer Arne Jacobsen. The elation of the compactor assigned to the buying public and therefore it has been the series 7 chair, by now about five million sold exemplars to one of the top-selling chairs of all time.

For the chair Jacobsen let impress himself by the American Design-couple Charles and Ray Eames. 1951 appeared the first concept of series 7. On the creation Arne Jacobsen experienced with a new engineering in the converting of coating bond scale boards.

The blackening and appealing design did his remaining and so is the series 7 chair a total work of high quality in the matter of design and creation and among other things to admire in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The Series 7 Chair is in other versions available on request. The different versions can you find in the added PDF-data.

Supplementary information

• Produktdatenblatt zum Serie 7 Stuhl (PDF ca. 497 kb)

Design: Arne Jacobsen

Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) used to be professor at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was appointed Dr. h.c. by several foreign universities and academies. He is considered as one of the pathfinders of the current furniture art.. Designer Arne Jacobsen