Set of Six 'Bellevue' Dining Chairs
by Arne Jacobsen
£48,000
Set of six stained, solid oak chairs. Seats with original brown leather. Manufactured in late 1930s by Fritz Hansen.
Designed between 1935 and 1937 for the restaurant at the Bellevue Theatre, North Copenhagen.
Product Description
Set of six stained, solid oak chairs. Seats with original brown leather. Manufactured in the late 1930s by Fritz Hansen
Designed between 1935 and 1937 for the restaurant at the Bellevue Theatre, North Copenhagen
LITERATURE:
Carsten Thau & Kjeld Vindum, "Arne Jacobsen", ill. p. 85.
Michael Sheridan: "Room 606 - The SAS House and the work of Arne Jacobsen'", pp. 223-224.
Seat height: 42cm
Bellevue is one of the principal designs from Arne Jacobsen's early work and functionalist Danish architecture in general. He decorated the theatre and its restaurant with specially designed furniture and lamps to match the modern, functionalist architecture and the theatre's function as a summer stage.
The design of the Bellevue chair draws on Chinese inspiration, with an S-shaped splat that follows the curvature of the human body. Arne Jacobsen was introduced to Chinese Arts & Crafts in Kaare Klint's furniture school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the 1920s, and this specific chair type probably caught his attention due to its honest and simple construction - a focus that would continue to characterize his approach as a furniture designer.
The chair is the first collaboration between Arne Jacobsen and the furniture company Fritz Hansen. By the 1930s, Fritz Hansen had not yet begun to work with plywood, so the chair's characteristic splat is constructed of two sections of wood that are glued together, while the rest of the frame is made of steam-bent beech with a seat in stretched leather.
Designed between 1935 and 1937 for the restaurant at the Bellevue Theatre, North Copenhagen
LITERATURE:
Carsten Thau & Kjeld Vindum, "Arne Jacobsen", ill. p. 85.
Michael Sheridan: "Room 606 - The SAS House and the work of Arne Jacobsen'", pp. 223-224.
Seat height: 42cm
Bellevue is one of the principal designs from Arne Jacobsen's early work and functionalist Danish architecture in general. He decorated the theatre and its restaurant with specially designed furniture and lamps to match the modern, functionalist architecture and the theatre's function as a summer stage.
The design of the Bellevue chair draws on Chinese inspiration, with an S-shaped splat that follows the curvature of the human body. Arne Jacobsen was introduced to Chinese Arts & Crafts in Kaare Klint's furniture school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the 1920s, and this specific chair type probably caught his attention due to its honest and simple construction - a focus that would continue to characterize his approach as a furniture designer.
The chair is the first collaboration between Arne Jacobsen and the furniture company Fritz Hansen. By the 1930s, Fritz Hansen had not yet begun to work with plywood, so the chair's characteristic splat is constructed of two sections of wood that are glued together, while the rest of the frame is made of steam-bent beech with a seat in stretched leather.
Code:
10493
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Details & Dimensions
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H 84cm x W 50cm x D 53cm
H 33.08" x W 19.69" x D 20.87"
H 33.08" x W 19.69" x D 20.87"
