Arne Jacobsen (b. Copenhagen 1902, d. s.p. 1971)
“Ox-chair”. Large easy chair upholstered with original patinated lightbrown leather. Mounted on aluminum swivel-base. Designed 1966. Manufactured in April 1967 by Fritz Hansen.
Jacobsen designed this chair over a five-year period. Large, impressive, and extremely comfortable, when it was presented in 1966 it was met with surprise and admiration. “This is also how he can be: angular and with a touch of martial temperament that we could call Germanic or perhaps more properly Japanese in expression”. Literature: Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum, (ed.), “Arne Jacobsen, Copenhagen”, 2001, p. 525.
Furniture and design, 11 October 2007