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AN AKSEL BENDER MADSEN & EJNER LARSEN, "Metropolitan chair" for Fritz Hansen, Denmark 1950´s.

Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 410 - 1 880 EUR
1 590 - 2 120 USD
Hammer price
12 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Jonatan  Jahn
Stockholm
Jonatan Jahn
Head Specialist Contemporary and Modern Design
+46 (0)703 92 88 60
AN AKSEL BENDER MADSEN & EJNER LARSEN, "Metropolitan chair" for Fritz Hansen, Denmark 1950´s.

Beech wood and plywood veneered in teak, stamped FH, height 78,5 cm.

More information

Designed in 1949. The chair got its breakthrough at the exhibition The Arts of Denmark at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York in 1960, where the most prominent of Danish design was showcased. It was consequently named the Metropolitan Chair.