Provenance: Made to order for Restaurant Kanalen, Christianshavn, Copenhagen.

Literature: “Poul Kjærholm”, Arkitektens Forlag, 1999, ill. p. 183.

Restaurant Kanalen (The Canal) was one of the last interiors that Poul Kjærholm participated in. A project under the leadership of his close friend Architect Nils Fagerholt. The narrow room and the limited space, combined with the unique location, placed great demands on a flexible furnishing. Poul Kjærholm provided a floor plan for the restaurant with the shape of the tables, stools, chairs etc. to be used. He designed the small tables, and the cork table tops. The metal frame for this table as well as other parts or elements of the interior, such as the bar stools, were partially designed by Nils Fagerholt. The semi-circular table that stood at one end of the building combines the round table’s option of always being able to seat “one more” with the square table’s economic use of space with a possible placement along the wall. The two sizes of semicircles further increase this flexibility. At the same time the one semi-circular section of the table functions on its own, when not in use, and is therefore suspended on the wall, as a clear graphic form in the room.