I live near this showroom, so I'm going there to try sit in one. Wow, this is one of the most sculpturally impressive (and odd!) Danish Modern dining chairs I've ever seen. I would love to have just one that could stand under my Richard Mortensen screenprints and just radiate excellent craftmanship and demand attention with its uniquely shaped back rests.
It doesn't say
when these were made, or who designed them. I'm quite curious. . .
Wegner made a three-legged dining chair, I believe. I think a chair with one leg in front isn't a bad idea. A chair with one rear leg invites an upset, however. Or have you had a different experience ?
P Starck's three-legged bucket chair of a few years ago was handsome; the rear leg was "way back there," though. A local new restaurant got rid of theirs in favor of something more compact, I noticed.
My take on it...
...is that Kurt Østervig's "spisestole i palisander" are more part of the decline of mid-century danish furniture design than of the "golden age". They are without any doubt very elegant and well made, but they also show a kind of virtuosity that introduces the decline of every great style period. In the balance between innovation and mannerism there is just too much of the latter. Raising the tips of the backrest wings less, might have avoided that.
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