A friend of mine has 3 chairs for sale and says they are Poul Kjaerholm chairs. He is very knowledgeable. They are polished aluminum and look like a Barcelona chair. There is a top and bottom half for the legs and they connect, via allen bolts, where the Barcelona chair legs cross. There are four spreaders for each chair that support the cushion straps (al la Barcelona). These chairs frames look almost exactly like the Barcelona and I have not been able to find a similar chair to confirm it's designer/maker. Does anyone out there have any info?
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Dear Shepco
I think it is fair to say that there is no public record of such a chair. I went all the way back to the Bremen exhibition of 1965, Special issues of Mobilia on Poul Kjaerholm, Arkitektens Vorlag (Christoffer Harlang et al.)'s book on Kjaerholm and finally Bruun Rasmussen's auction catalogue on Kjaerholm (a gift of m_andersen)....and my own memory...A source I do not have is the catalogue on the recent Poul Kjaerholm exhibition in Louisiana Museum in Humblebeck.
In spite of all of that I would not be willing to exclude it completely. Paul Kjaerhiolm loved to take an existing chair as the starting point for the development of another. His steel tubing variation (PK 15 or the more unusual EKC-12 in the Oda collection) of the Thonet is one. The foldable PK-91 as a variation in steel on the wooden nr 8783 (1927) chair of Kaare Klint is another as well as the EKC-13 which is clearly inspired by L.v.d.Rohe's variation on the cantilever chair. His laminated chair of 1952 is certainly influenced by Eames and Hans Wegner's 1963 chair was influenced of both. It would still surprise me that 1- there would be an un-known design of Poul Kjaerholm. 2- that it would be that close.
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