Outdoor Charlottenborg Lounge Sofa. 2 seats, by Arne Jacobsen. New edition.

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Outdoor Charlottenborg Lounge Sofa. 2 seats, by Arne Jacobsen. New edition. The curved shape, which later became very characteristic for Arne Jacobsen’s many famous chairs, is already suggested in this very early piece of furniture. The Charlottenborg sofa has quite an unconventional shape, where the elegant curved rattan frame integrates the back seamlessly with the armrest at the bottom of the sofa. The frame of rattan is mounted with an upholstered cushion, available in a range of hardwearing fabric types. The elegant design of this 2 seater sofa will beautifully accessorize any living room, hall or vacation home. It is a known fact, that the Charlottenborg chair was one of Arne Jacobsen’s favourite lounge chairs in his famous vacation home Knarken near Sejroebugten. Cushions available in black, white, beige, taupe or mocca.

Year 1936
Dimensions H : 73 cm. W : 137 cm. D : 62 cm. Seat height : 40 cm.
Material polypropylène
Style Classique
Neuf
Origin Denmark
Fournisseur Sika design

Arne Jacobsen

Denmark (1902-1971)

 

Arne Jacobsen trained at the Technical School and continued his training at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture, graduating in 1927. He was employed with the city architect in Copenhagen 1927-29 and then established his own design practice. 1956-65 he was a professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture. Arne Jacobsen worked as an architect and designer.

During his education at the School of Architecture he was influenced by neo-classicism, but around 1930 he helped introduce functionalism in Denmark. Inspired by international functionalism, he in the following years designed the white housing estate Bellavista in Klampenborg (1934), the town halls inAarhus (1942) and Rødovre (1956), SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen (1960) and St. Catherine’s College in Oxford (1964). Jacobsen believed that each element of a house should be shaped by the architect. This is why most of his furniture was developed in connection with particular building projects. The three-legged stacking chair, the Ant, from 1952 (RP00619) was designed for the new small Danish dining kitchens and was simultaneously also used in canteens, the first time in the pharmaceutical factory Novo’s canteen. The Ant, a stacking chair in moulded veneer, was Denmark’s first actual industrially produced chair and soon had four-legged follow-ups such as the 7 and the Seagull (RP03214).

For SAS Royal Hotel he designed the organically shaped foam plastic chairs the Egg, the Swan (RP00128) and the Drop (RP01005), and for the teachers’ table in the dining room at St. Catherine’s College, the monumental Oxford chair (RP02993).

Arne Jacobsen is one of his generations’ great architects and the sculptural chair the Ant, the Egg and the Swan put him on the map as a world-class designer.