Swan (chair)

The Swan ( Svanen ), also known as The Swan is a 1958 developed by Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen chair. It was designed in the form, as well as the chair model egg, for the foyer of the SAS Royal Hotel, his last work of art. To date, the swan is produced by the furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen.

Construction

The seat is an innovative for its time. The design contains no straight lines but only curves and organic looks. The structure of the chair consists of a steel frame, which is padded with a resilient foam. In the rear portion, the shell of the chair is made of polyurethane, reinforced with glass fiber. A manufactured from die-cast aluminum star-shaped foot is the basis for the rotating chair.

As reference material leather and fabric is used. In the same year a 144 cm wide bed was developed on a metal shaker base in the style of the chair.

Reception

The chair is in the world's collections of design museums, contain and exhibited, among others, at the Design Museum Danmark in Copenhagen, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. He is considered a design classic. Early originals are traded at art auctions. On the documenta III in 1964 the chair was exhibited together with other works by Arne Jacobsen in the department of Industrial Design.

The studio of the ARD political talk show Anne Will is equipped with red -related swans. In the common house of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin several swans are placed.