FH3100 / Myren / The Ant Chair by Arne Jacobsen 1952
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Ant Chair in the permanent collection of Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen
The Ant Chair was designed for the canteen of Novo Industry - the pharmaceutical company - or rather - the story is that Arne Jacobsen had designed the chair but Fritz Hansen were not convinced that it was viable commercially. When a director from Novo visited the drawing office to discuss work on the design of new buildings for Novo and admired the chair, he asked Jacobsen about the design. Jacobsen told him it was for the canteen at the new factory and so secured an order for 200 that convinced Fritz Hansen that the design should go into production.
This was not an industrial design, as such, but the design for an industrially manufactured chair for everyday use.
