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Kjaerholm
Poul
DENMARK  


1929 Oster Vra, Denmark
1980
Poul Kjaerholm was born in 1929 in Øster Vrå, Denmark. He finished his apprenticeship as a cabinet maker with Grønbech in 1948 and graduated at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen in 1952 with a.o. the PK 25 chair that is still produced by Fritz Hansen. Poul Kjaerholm was very articulate and with natural authority he started an outstanding career as an educator in the same year (1952) but continued to study with Prof. Erik Herløw and Prof. Palle Suenson. From 1955, the year he did the famous PK 22, for which he received the Lunning Award in 1958, he became assistant at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and lecturer in 1959. He became head of the Institut for Design in 1973 and finally professor in 1976 until his premature dead in 1980. Over all these years he designed dozens of chairs, long chairs, and tables that became landmarks for Danish furniture design, including the famous PK 24 long chair. Most of his furniture was initially and until 1982 produced by his friend E. Kold Christensen in Hellerup. A wide selection of that production has been part of the Fritz Hansen collection since.
His designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the V&A Museum in London and other museum collections in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany. He won numerous awards in industrial and graphic design, including two Grand Prix at the Milan Trienale (1957 & 1960), the ID Award and the legendary Lunning Award.

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Click to discover a larger picture! Courtesy Fritz Hansen
'PK 24' Lounge Chair
D E S I G N E R
Poul Kjaerholm

P R O D U C E R
Fritz Hansen, Denmark
1965
M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
stainless steel
seat in woven cane - cushion covered in leather
W:67cm L:155cm H:86 cm

a comment of Ajay Jain :
Still appears modern and futuristic in the 2002 Science Fiction Film 'Minotrity Report'.
 
Click to discover a larger picture! Courtesy Fritz Hansen
'PK 61' Table
D E S I G N E R
Poul Kjaerholm

P R O D U C E R
Fritz Hansen, Denmark
1955
M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
glass + chromed metal
W:80cm D:80cm H:32 cm
Click to discover a larger picture! Courtesy Fritz Hansen
'PK 9' Chair
D E S I G N E R
Poul Kjaerholm

P R O D U C E R
Fritz Hansen, Denmark
1960
M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
leather + chromed metal
W:56cm D:59,5cm H:73,5 cm
Click to discover a larger picture! Courtesy Fritz Hansen
'PK 20' Chair
D E S I G N E R
Poul Kjaerholm

P R O D U C E R
Fritz Hansen, Denmark
1956
M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
leather + chromed metal
W:80cm D:76cm H:89 cm
Click to discover a larger picture! Courtesy Fritz Hansen
'PK 22' Chair
D E S I G N E R
Poul Kjaerholm

P R O D U C E R
Fritz Hansen, Denmark
1955
M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
leather + chromed metal
W:63cm D:67cm H:35 cm
This chair was produced by E. Kold Christensen between 1956 and 1982.
Reissued by Fritz Hansen since 1982.
 
a comment of Eric Dewilde :
Also called "Easy Chair" and beneath the leather upholstery it was also produced with another natural material (in the same minimalist philosophy): weaved cane.
 
a comment of Herman Lohman :
The weaved cane version has a higher backseat than the leather versions, which is considered by many less beautifull and in proportion.
 


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