Terms and conditions of use
Swan chair
designed (1958); manufactured (c. 1968)
- Medium
- wool, aluminium, rubber, (other materials)
- Measurements
- 77.0 × 75.5 × 67.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Denmark
- Inscription
- printed in ink on paper label on chair stem u.c.: FH (FH in a circle) (all in a square) / MADE IN DENMARK / 0469 / BY FRITZHANSEN / FURNITUREMAKERS' / DANISH / CONTROL
cast (diagonally) in base of stem c.: 520020 FH (FH in a circle) (all in a square) MADE IN / DENMARK - Accession Number
- D121-1969
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Design 250, 1969
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International - About this work
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Arne Jacobsen designed the Swan chair as part of the furnishings for his SAS (Scandinavian Airline Systems) Royal Hotel, located about the air terminal in Copenhagen that he also designed. Like Aarnio, Saarinen and the Eameses, Jacobsen was experimenting with modern furniture design during the 1950s that engaged with new materials and technologies and was keen to design seating that embraced the sitter in more rounded, sculptural forms. The elegant, upholstered Swan chair introduced a warm yet modern sensibility and was placed throughout the hotel; it remains in production today.
