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Magnus Stephensen Lounge Chair in Dark Stained Beechwood by Fritz Hansen

About the Item

Rare Magnus Stephensen lounge chair in dark stained beechwood by Fritz Hansen in the 1940s. The chair is in good condition with a beautiful patina and ready to be taking in use, the chair is the perfect detail to any interior and fits the typical Scandinavian interior but could also fit a more modern interior or a Wabi Sabi style interior. This chair could work perfectly as a lounge chair by the coffe table or as a reading chair or what else you could imagine it for in your interior. Magnus Læssøe Stephensen (born 12 October 1903 in Holte, died 14 March 1984 in Helsingør) was a Danish architect and designer, educated at the Academy of fine Arts 1924-30; He was the brother of Hakon Stephensen. Magnus Læssøe Stephensen's buildings are characterized by a form-reliable functionalism that is not just an external style, e.g. are his terraced houses for families with children in Husum (1941-1942) and the apartment blocks in Bispeparken (1940-1941) and Dommerparken (1945-47); Like many other buildings in Copenhagen and the surrounding area, they were made in collaboration with Knud Thorball (1904-1980). A study trip to i.a. Japan left its mark on his designs, which include silverware for Kay Bojesen, cutlery for Georg Jensen, frames for The Royal Porcelain Factory and furniture for Fritz Hansen's Eftf. Among other things, The DAN chair from 1931. He received the Eckersberg Medal in 1948. Fritz Hansen A/S is an internationally renowned Danish furniture manufacturer that was founded in 1872 by master carpenter Fritz Hansen (1847-1902). The company is headquartered in Allerød. Fritz Hansen was trained as a joiner and cabinet maker in his hometown of Nakskov and at the age of 25 he went to the capital, where he became a citizen in 1872. The actual furniture production started a few years later in 1885 in Copenhagen and within a few years became a thriving business at Christianshavn in the central part of Copenhagen. In 1896, the business was expanded considerably, as Fritz Hansen acquired a plot of land in Lillerød, where two years later he opened his own sawmill (Lillerød Sawmill). In 1899, Fritz Hansen's son and successor, Christian E. Hansen (1874-1954), took over the company, which then employed 50 people. The founder died in 1902, aged only 55. In 1915, Christian E. Hansen was one of the first to introduce steam-bentwood, which later became classics such as Arne Jacobsen's Myren og Syveren (3107), but which is also included as an element in many other Danish design classics. In the 1920s and 1930s, the company began to move from a Craft business to an industrialized one, and at the same time began experiments with tubular steel furniture following the example of Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Christian E. Hansen acted as a designer himself, i.a. of a series of functionalist oak furniture and of the well-known Canada chair (1940, model FH 2252), but gradually began a collaboration with the designers of the time. Ove Boldt designed the Windsor chair (1942, model FH 1638). Chr. E. Hansen had three sons, two of whom joined the family company in 1928: Poul Fritz Hansen (1902-1987), Søren Christian Hansen (1905-1977). Later, the youngest brother Knud Marius Hansen (1911-?) also joined the family business. The brothers' educations complemented each other well: Fritz was trained as a chair maker, Søren received a business education and Knud became a foreman. Poul and Søren Hansen became co-owners in 1933. Poul became manager of the furniture factory, while his brother Søren took care of the administration and the exhibition. During the Occupation, a shortage naturally arose, and much of the furniture from the war years was produced with imaginative use of what was available. Among other things. The straps on 1940s furniture are often made of paper. Poul Hansen revolutionized Danish furniture design when he had leading architects of the time design furniture for him. With Arne Jacobsen's molded chair from 1951 was the beginning of an extensive collaboration with the designers of the time, which put Fritz Hansen at the forefront of the Danish Design export wave in the 1950s and 1960s. The production included furniture by Børge Mogensen, Hans J. Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Mogens Lassen and Ole Wanscher. In 1954, Christian E. Hansen died. In 1955, the company was transformed into a limited company and in the same year Fritz and Søren Hansen became directors (shared management) and members of the board for this. They were directors until 1975. From the 1970s until today, the collaboration with the furniture architects of the time has continued and has, among other things, included Verner Panton, Nanna Ditzel and Kasper Salto, Piero Lissoni, Piet Hein/Bruno Mathsson. In 1982, the Poul Kjærholm collection was taken over. A little bit of information about us, we are specialized in Scandinavian Modern and decorative design with a main focus on early modernist pieces and decorative objects from architects and designers like Josef Frank, Arne Jacobsen, Pierre Forssell, Frits Schlegel, Mogens Koch, Flemming Lassen, Mogens Lassen, Poul Kjærholm, Sven Markelius, Just Andersen, Vilhelm Lauritzen, Kay Fisker, Kaj Gottlob and many others. All our pieces are restored and reupholstered by professional Danish cabinetmakers and upholsters if need, they all work with a big respect for the original materials so we can try to keep the pieces as close to the original as possible.

Creator:

Fritz Hansen (Manufacturer)

Attributed to:

Magnus Stephensen (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 33.08 in (84 cm)Width: 22.84 in (58 cm)Depth: 18.12 in (46 cm)Seat Height: 14.97 in (38 cm)

Style:

Scandinavian Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Beech,Bentwood,Stained

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

1940-1949

Date of Manufacture:

1940’s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading.

Seller Location:

Valby, DK

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU6559233487172

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When the Copenhagen-based furniture maker Fritz Hansen opened for business more than 140 years ago, the company — which today styles itself The Republic of Fritz Hansen — adhered to the traditional, time-honored Danish values of craftsmanship in woodworking and joinery. Yet thanks to the postwar innovations of Arne Jacobsen and others, Fritz Hansen would become the country’s leader in Scandinavian modern design using new, forward-looking materials and methods.

Fritz Hansen started his company in 1872, specializing in the manufacture of small furniture parts. In 1915, the firm became the first in Denmark to make chairs using steam-bent wood (a technique most familiar from birch used in the ubiquitous café chairs by Austrian maker Thonet). At the time, Fritz Hansen was best known for seating that featured curved legs and curlicue splats and referenced 18th-century Chippendale designs.

In the next few decades, the company promoted simple, plain chairs with slatted backs and cane or rush seats designed by such proto-modernist masters as Kaare Klint and Søren Hansen. Still, the most aesthetically striking piece Fritz Hansen produced in the first half of the 20th century was arguably the China chair of 1944 by Hans Wegner — and that piece, with its yoke-shaped bentwood back- and armrest, was based on seating manufactured in China during the Ming dynasty. (Wegner was moved by portraits he’d seen of Danish merchants in the Chinese chairs.)

Everything changed in 1952 with Arne Jacobsen’s Ant chair. The collaboration between the architect and Fritz Hansen officially originated in 1934 — that year, Jacobsen created his inaugural piece for the manufacturer, the solid beechwood Bellevue chair for a restaurant commission. The Ant chair, however, was the breakthrough.

With assistance from his then-apprentice Verner Panton, Jacobsen designed the Ant chair for the cafeteria of a Danish healthcare company called Novo Nordisk. The chair was composed of a seat and backrest formed from a single piece of molded plywood attached, in its original iteration, to three tubular metal legs. Its silhouette suggests the shape of the insect’s body, and the lightweight, stackable chair and its biomorphic form became an international hit.

Jacobsen followed with more plywood successes, such as the Grand Prix chair of 1957. The following year he designed the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen and its furnishings, including the Egg chair and the Swan chair. Those two upholstered pieces, with their lush, organic frames made of fiberglass-reinforced polyurethane, have become the two chairs most emblematic of mid-20th-century cool. Moreover, the Egg and Swan led Fritz Hansen to fully embrace new man-made materials, like foam, plastic and steel wire used to realize the avant-garde creations of later generations of designers with whom the firm collaborated, such as Piet Hein, Jørn Utzon (the architect of the Sydney Opera House) and Verner Panton. If the Fritz Hansen of 1872 would not now recognize his company, today’s connoisseurs certainly do.

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