Model 3107 chair

Model 3107 chair

Models 3207, 3108 and 3107 in the City Hall Mainz, Germany.
Designer	Arne Jacobsen
Date	1955
Materials	Steel frame, fabric cover
Style / tradition	Modernist
Sold by	Fritz Hansen (Denmark)

The Model 3107 chair is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955. It is a variation on the Ant Chair, also designed by Arne Jacobsen. Over 5 million units have been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen.

Description[]

The chair, along with the Jacobsen's Ant chair, was, according to Jacobsen, inspired by a chair made by the husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames using their plywood bending techniques.^[1]

The chair is available with a number of different undercarriages — as a regular four-legged chair, an office chair with five wheels and as a bar stool. It can come equipped with armrests, a writing-table attachment, and different forms of upholstering.

The chair is widely believed to have been used in Lewis Morley's iconic photograph of Christine Keeler; however, the chair used in this photograph was an imitation and not an original Jacobsen model.^[2][3] The Keeler chair had a hand hold cut in the back. After the publishing of the pictures sales of the chair rose dramatically.^[4]

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  The chairs are easy to stack. (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich)

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  A more recent chair, red painted ash colour.

See also[]

• Bentwood
• Molded plywood
• Swan (chair)
• Ant (chair)

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Series 7 chairs (Arne Jacobsen) at Wikimedia Commons
• Official Series 7™ chair website