need info on Kjaerholm chair  

Your chair, a more rare item...
Your chair, a more rare item by Poul Kjærholm, was designed together with the Danish architect Joergen Hoej for master cabinetmaker Thorald Madsen's stand at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibition in 1952. Apparently very few were made at TM. The chair is now produced by PP Furniture but for collectors the first edition is the most desirable so congratulations with your rare Kjaerholm chair.

A small contribution
The existance of the chair is well documented in a.o. "Poul Kjaerholm" by Christoffer Harlang, Keld Helmer-Petersen and Krestine Kjaerholm (Arkitektens Forlag 1999) and in an short overview of Poul Kjaerholm's work by Per Mollerup in Mobilia. Per Mollerup points out that the construction allows it to be taken apart easily for transportation. It is something I always had doubts about because judging by any of the know pictures of the chair the halyars holds it together. So...now that I have the opportunity to ask someone that actually ows one of the Madsen made ones, my question is: does it really comes apart easily (that is without taking the halyyard off)Per Mollerup also points out that it is the only chair Poul Kjaerholm did in collaboration with another designer/architect. This might have soemthing to do with the fact that it is one of his very first pieces after finishing his formal education...and just to repeat mr. Andersson's comment, you have a very exceptional piece of one of the very best furniture designers of the 20th century.

Sorry..
M_Andersen for miss spelling your name

Thank You - Tack for informationen
Many thanks for all your help, both of you, in providing this info - I was very excited over buying this piece, and am even more so now! I am a big fan of Mr Kjaerholms work and have been so my whole life, but just recently got the need to actually own one - I so wish I had considered buying 25 years ago, when first I saw his designs - but it is very easy to be "efterklok" (swedish for smart afterwards). -To your question: Unfortunately the chair is on one side of the Atlantic and I am on the other, so I can not answer if it is collapsable - and I am not going to ask any shipping agency - no matter how reputable - to take it apart - can you imagine the catastrophy??? Me sitting here with two pices of wood and a roll of haleyard??? I will, however - let you know my thoughts when it has arrived! Oddly enough, this is my second piece by Kjaerholm, and they are both made with string - the first i bought was the PK-2 produced by Kold Christensen. (Besides a couple of counterfeit folding-stools on eBay - but I prefer to forget about them). Thanks again!

As I
am a strong believer in "a picture is worth a thousand words," I would gladly post a pic of this chair if I had one -- and if I could unlock the (apparently unique) secret of posting images on this forum !
SDR

Near the
bottom of the page linked below is the PK25 chair; is this like the one you have bought ?
SDR
http://www.houseofcopenhagen.com/index_top1.html?http://www.houseofcopen...

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Sorry -- try this.
http://www.houseofcopenhagen.com/index_top1.html?http://www.houseofcopen...

Try this link
I believe that the link below will take you to a photo of the chair in discussion (actually, two of 'em). But if it doesn't, it's lot 593 of Wright's October 28, 2001 auction.
Undoubtedly a rare chair. But I've always not liked the wood-only Kjaerholm pieces (I believe there are a couple more?). Something about steel being his signature material and all that. But I don't know much about him -- the nice pieces are just too expensive for me to collect (esp now that he's very hot among the moneyed set).
http://www3.wright20.com/arch/auctions/5_wright/full/individual_lots/593...

I personally think...
I personally think Kjærholm's a bit overrated, prob. due to the overexposure of Danish design in the past years and that Fritz Hansen is still producing and marketing his furniture. No doubt, he's good but I think it's getting a bit out of hand, esp. when you compare his work with other similar Danish designers from that era like fx the almost forgotten duo, Preben Fabricius & Joergen Kastholm (Knoll/Kill). I would prefer them over Kjærholm at any time, it's really a shame they're not as widely recognized as Kjærholm. A Danish design collector is about to launch a reproduction of many pieces from the Fabricius/Kastholm collection so I hope this will help spread the word around the world about the genius of this duo. Kjærholm is no match for these two designers, if you ask me.

I do agree to a certain...
I do agree to a certain point - there are an amazing amount of talented designers that hail from Denmark, and Preben Fabricius and Jorgen Kastholm definitely being on the same level as Poul Kjaerholm - I do, however, not agree that they are not recognized - as a matter of fact, I just saw Mr Kastholm at the ICFF here in NY this morning, and his line of furniture is being reintroduced by the Danish Consulate here in the States - and there is a grasshopper lounge coming up at Sotheby's here in NY in June, with an estimated sell-price I never seen before for this chair ....

Well, I didn't describe...
Well, I didn't describe Fabricius & Kastholm (F&K) as not being recognized at all, just not on the same level as Kjærholm. I believe far more people are aware of Kjærholm's work than that of F&K. I mean, the PK22 is everywhere! Most of Kjærholm's furniture has been in production for years and years while F&K's furniture has only recently been "rediscovered" and reissued as I mentioned before. Their time has finally come, I hope.

Finally, finally - the chair...
Finally, finally - the chair has finally arrived, and it is as beautiful -if not even more, as I hoped it would be! Here is my answer to Koen, who answered my thread way back when I bought the chair:
It does not appear as if I could take it apart without removing the halyard - which is quite easily done, since it is not tied in any complicated way, it appears as if it is only one long piece of cord loosely wrapped around the top bar and the front bar of the chair. - Which is far lower than I anticipated - I guess thats why it is called the "Easy Chair"... you can not really do anything but relax in this beauty.

Congratulations
...and thanks for the update. To me Poul Kjaerholm is one of these few designers that will never be praised enough.