342 Arne Jacobsen Important and rare set of four high-backed ‘Oxford’ dining chairs and dining table, designed for the dining hall, St. Catherine's College, Oxford 1962-1964 Each chair: rosewood-veneered moulded plywood, bent laminated rosewood; table: rosewood-veneered plywood, bent laminated rosewood. Each chair: 127.9 x 46.7 x 54.5 cm (50 3/8 x 18 3/8 x 21 1/2 in.) Table: 69.5 cm (27 3/8 in.) high, 145.4 cm (57 1/4 in.) diameter Manufactured by Fritz Hansen Denmark. Underside of two chairs with manufacturer's paper label FH/MADE IN DENMARK/0864/BY FRITZHANSEN/FURNITURE MAKERS DANISH CONTROL and 0963 respectively.
Provenance Private collection, Jutland, Denmark Sotheby’s, London, ‘Design since 1935’, 29 October, 1997, lot 580 Private collection, London Literature Frederik Sieck, Contemporary Danish Furniture Design, Copenhagen, 1990, p. 125 Poul Hvidberg-Hansen, Fritz Hansen 1872-1997: Danish Furniture Design Through 125 Years, Kolding, 1997, p. 32 Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum, Arne Jacobsen Copenhagen, 2001, pp. 146, 182-83, 490, 523 Arne Karlsen Danish Furniture Design: in the 20th Century, Volume 2, Copenhagen, 2007, p. 134 Danish Museum of Art & Design, Furniture Index, https://designmuseum.kb.dk/moebel/image1/RP05971A.jpg/(accessed February, 2014) for an illustrated archive image of the dining table
342 Arne Jacobsen Important and rare set of four high-backed ‘Oxford’ dining chairs and dining table, designed for the dining hall, St. Catherine's College, Oxford 1962-1964 Each chair: rosewood-veneered moulded plywood, bent laminated rosewood; table: rosewood-veneered plywood, bent laminated rosewood. Each chair: 127.9 x 46.7 x 54.5 cm (50 3/8 x 18 3/8 x 21 1/2 in.) Table: 69.5 cm (27 3/8 in.) high, 145.4 cm (57 1/4 in.) diameter Manufactured by Fritz Hansen Denmark. Underside of two chairs with manufacturer's paper label FH/MADE IN DENMARK/0864/BY FRITZHANSEN/FURNITURE MAKERS DANISH CONTROL and 0963 respectively.
Provenance Private collection, Jutland, Denmark Sotheby’s, London, ‘Design since 1935’, 29 October, 1997, lot 580 Private collection, London Literature Frederik Sieck, Contemporary Danish Furniture Design, Copenhagen, 1990, p. 125 Poul Hvidberg-Hansen, Fritz Hansen 1872-1997: Danish Furniture Design Through 125 Years, Kolding, 1997, p. 32 Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum, Arne Jacobsen Copenhagen, 2001, pp. 146, 182-83, 490, 523 Arne Karlsen Danish Furniture Design: in the 20th Century, Volume 2, Copenhagen, 2007, p. 134 Danish Museum of Art & Design, Furniture Index, https://designmuseum.kb.dk/moebel/image1/RP05971A.jpg/(accessed February, 2014) for an illustrated archive image of the dining table
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