Butterfly chair Arne Jacobsen Fritz Hansen First Edition

First Edition Butterfly chair by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen.  

name: Series 7 Chair, now known as the Butterfly chair,
designer: Arne Jacobsen,
manufacturer: Fritz Hansen, Denmark,
design year: 1955,
fabrication year: 1955,  

FIRST EDITION! Very Rare! Only for the serious collector;

We placed it next to a modern butterfly chair and the First Edition chair is thinner, sharper, eleganter and more curvacious!

shaped and bent book-matched teak veneer plywood shell; only one chair has a noticeable chip, see photo;

lacquered steel tube legs, where the lacquer has chipped the steel has oxidised black, see photos;

leg holder/stacking bumpers are have been oiled so often that they look like wood but are still flexible;

underneath: very rare seldom seen aluminium joint cover with Fritz Hansen logo and Denmark engraved; each chair has “426” handwritten in black wax-pencil;

design classic stackable dining room chair;

mid-century modern, vintage, retro, 50s, 1950s, fifties

price is per piece;