Poul Kjærholm, Denmark, 1965
PK 24 chaise lounge by Poul Kjaerholm with mirror-finished stainless steel frame, base and bar, cane seat and black leather cushion. Produced by E. Kold Christensen, Denmark, 1965.
62" L x 26.5" W x 35" H / 157.5cm L x 67.3cm W x 35cm H
LC863
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Molded laminated birch and birch plywood
This is a rare example of the model to have been made for the American market in the 1930s, having previously been in the collection of the Hugh Stubbins House, Lexington, MA. It dates to the early years of distribution in the USA, when Laurance Rockefeller set up a firm to handle the American market in conjunction with the 1938 Aalto exhibition at MoMA. Most of the early American owners of this model seem to have been architects who were affiliated with either MoMA or Harvard/MIT. Hugh Stubbins, who studied with Walter Gropius and succeeded him as department chair at Harvard, almost certainly knew Aalto in the 1940s. I prefer this model over its Paimio Sanitorium prototype, which was an awkward fusion of bent ply and tubular steel.