Robb Report Singapore

PKO A Chair and PK60 Table

By Poul Kjaerholm for Fritz Hansen

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To celebrate its 150th anniversar­y, Fritz Hansen is gracing mid-century-modern-furniture lovers with a handful of iconic reissues. Our two favourites, Poul Kjaerholm’s PKO A chair and PK60 coffee table (prices upon request), made their redux debut and went into production this year, set to drop in September. The vaunted designer joined Fritz Hansen in 1951 at the tender age of 22, then departed a year later over the outsized attention the company paid to Arne Jacobsen. In 1982, two years after Kjaerholm’s death, his trustees gave Fritz Hansen the production and sale rights to his 1951 to 1967 designs.

As they say, everything happens in due time. The low-slung, three-legged PK0 A chair saw a limited run of only 600 in 1997, while the glass-topped PK60 coffee table with its delicately arched base never made it to production. Now the minimalist designs, which epitomise the appeal of bent plywood and showcase steam-bending techniques, are having their moment. Both sculptural pieces are being made in black-stained ash and in Oregon pine, with the chair sporting striking red rubber spacers.

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