The first version of “The Metropolitan chair” was shown at the Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibition in 1949 by cabinetmaker Ludvig Pontoppidan. The chair came in a simplified variation in industrial production by Fritz Hansen from 1952 to app. 1958. At the Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibition in 1959, presented cabinetmaker Willy Beck a more luxus variation covered with leather on armrests and seat. Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.], “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, Vol. 3, p. 114–115 and Vol. 4, p. 78–81.