Model 3107 chair
 Models 3207, 3108 and 3107 in the City Hall Mainz, Germany | |
| Designer | Arne Jacobsen |
|---|---|
| Date | 1955 |
| Materials | Steel frame, fabric cover |
| Style / tradition | Modernist |
| Sold by | Fritz Hansen (Denmark) |
The Model 3107 chair is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955. It is a variation on the Ant Chair, also designed by Arne Jacobsen. Over five million units have been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen.
Description
[edit]The chair, along with the Jacobsen's Ant chair, was, according to Jacobsen, inspired by a chair made by the husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames using their plywood bending techniques.[1]
The chair is available with a number of different undercarriages—as a regular four-legged chair, an office chair with five wheels and as a bar stool. It can come equipped with armrests, a writing-table attachment, and different forms of upholstering.
The chair is widely believed to have been used in Lewis Morley's iconic 1963 photograph of Christine Keeler; however, the chair used in this photograph was an imitation and not an original Jacobsen model.[2][3] The Keeler chair had a hand hold cut in the back. After the publishing of the pictures, sales of the chair rose dramatically.[4]
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The chairs are easy to stack. (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) -
A more recent chair, red painted ash colour
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Chairs - 1950s". Photography. Design Museum. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ Volker Albus; Reyer Kras; Jonathan M. Woodham (2000). Icons of Design!: The 20th Century. Prestel. p. 100. ISBN 9783791323060. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ "The Keeler Chair (Unknown)". Photography. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2019-04-14. Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, October 2013. Notes: Although made in Denmark, Keeler's chair is in fact an early 'rip-off' of Jacobsen's design. Morley claimed to have bought the chair at a Heal's sale in 1962 for £2.
- ^ dwell.com: The 3107 Chair
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