Provenance: Aquired 1960s by present owner's family.

Model presented at The Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition at Designmuseum Danmark, 1955.

Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Danish Furniture Design”, vol. 3, p. 342–343.

In 1955 Helge Vestergaard Jensen presented four new models at the Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition made respectively by Cabinetmakers Peder Pedersen and Thysen Nielsen. In these four models (the “Racket Chair”, a dining chair, a low lounge chair and a daybed) Vestergaard Jensen had experimented with the use of nylon string.

The untraditional combination of nylon and wood illustrated the dichotomy of the union of a finely crafted wooden frame and the more industrial nylon material. Stripping the furniture of their heavy and sometimes clumsy upholstery made them appear light and visually delicate like sculptures.