Chair by Søren Hansen 1930
/chair photographed at Designmuseum Danmark
chair by the Viennese company Thonet - made from the middle of the 19th century onwards
it could be transported in separate parts and assembled at the destination
the seat is cane rather than plywood
Fritz Hansen Eftf produced a number of chairs in bentwood and plywood between 1928 and 1948. Generally, these bentwood chairs in beech are referred to as DAN chairs.
This chair from 1930 was designed by Søren Hansen - the grandson of Fritz Hansen who founded the furniture company. It takes as a starting point the famous chairs by Thonet - the Austrian company - that date from the 19th century but simplifies the form. In both chairs, the back posts and the back rest are made from a single piece of steam-bent wood but, in the Danish version, the back rest forms a more generous and perhaps an even-more extravagant loop.
