The chair was first designed in sketch in 1935 for the furniture competition held in connection with the annual Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition. This as part of “living room in a bachelor's appartment”. It was later modified to the example actually shown at the exhibition the following year 1936. It was then made either with runner legs or with legs as the present example. The chair has been interpreted as a fine contemporary and typical Danish comment to a more austere international modernism prevailing in Central Europe in the 1930s.

Literature: Grete Jalk [ed.]: “40 Years of Dnaish Furniture Design”, vol. 1, ill. pp. 246–247. Literature: Arne Karlsen 1990: “Dansk Møbelkunst i det 20. Århundrede”, vol. 1, ill. pp. 144–145. Literature: Povl Christiansen, Hakon Stephensen, 1966: “40- Håndværket viser vejen”, ill. pp. 46–47.