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The furniture designer Poul Kjærholm is one of the most important representatives of legendary Danish design, alongside Arne Jacobsen, Poul Henningsen, Verner Panton and Hans Wegner.
Kjærholm was born in Øster Vrå in Denmark in 1929. He trained as a cabinetmaker before studying furniture design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen from 1949 to 1952.
Kjærholm was particularly interested in different materials and manufacturing techniques. He was especially drawn to steel – for him, steel was a natural material with the same artistic qualities as other natural materials.
In 1950, Poul Kjærholm developed the basic concept for a new kind of furniture series, challenging the design norms of the time. In 1951, Kjærholm designed the PK 25 chair as his graduation project. Its frame is made of cut and chrome-plated flat steel, while the seat and backrest are made of flag halyard wound and stretched around the frame. Poul Kjærholm's seating designs are rooted in classic modernism. He softened its strict functionalism with softer, lighter shapes and the typically Scandinavian use of natural materials such as wood, leather and cane.
In 1952, Poul Kjærholm designed the PK 0 chair, a two-part construction made of moulded plywood.
Both models were developed further when Poul Kjærholm subsequently worked at Fritz Hansen for about a year. Further pieces followed, such as the PK22. With his work from this period, Kjærholm became one of the figureheads of new Danish and Scandinavian design.
In 1955, Poul Kjærholm began working with the furniture maker Ejvind Kold Christensen, a collaboration that lasted until Kjærholm's death in 1980. In 1982, Fritz Hansen took over production and distribution of the Kjærholm collection, made up of designs created between 1951 and 1967 – logical down to the smallest detail and surrounded by an aura of exclusivity.
In 2007, Fritz Hansen added two new pieces to the Kjærholm collection: the PK8 dining chair and the PK58 dining table, neither of which had been produced before.
