The traditional Danish company of Fritz Hansen attracts leading furniture designers and architects from all over the world, and they are continually enriching the company with new classics. This result is furniture which owes its impression of lightness, refinement and discreet luxury to the skills of designers and architects such as Vico Magistretti, Poul Kjaerholm or Burkhard Vogtherr. The most creative and undoubtedly most productive relationship in the history of Danish furniture design began in 1934, when Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) met Fritz Hansen. Legendary furniture, such as the ‘Egg’ or the ‘Swan’, were produced as early as the 1950s and caused a sensation. A further design icon of the Hansen/Jacobsen duo was the ‘Ant’, dating from 1952, with which the two finally made a name for themselves in the furniture world. Arne Jacobsen’s designs of are just as relevant and topical today as they were on the day when they were first conceived.
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