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Fritz Hansen founded his eponymous company in Copenhagen in 1872, initially as a carpentry workshop, before beginning with the production of his own furniture in 1885: furniture whose quality and versatility quickly saw the company establish a good reputation in Denmark and beyond. The history of the company Fritz Hansen is characterized above all by reined technical skills, a qualified understanding of design and the highest quality materials. Renowned architects and designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjærholm, Christian Dell and Kaspar Salto, whose creations combine a representative aesthetic with Fritz Hansen's commitment to innovative techniques and high-quality materials has seen a steady, consistent, high-quality, growth of the product portfolio. The most successful collaboration to date is that with Arne Jacobsen, who designs such as the Series 7 Chair both defined 20th century design and helped Fritz Hansen establish itself on the international stage.
Fritz Hansen: Furniture manufacturer with tradition
Fritz Hansen values premium quality
For Fritz Hansen the focus is not only timeless design, but also the highest standards in terms of comfort and sustainability. Under the concept of premium quality, the manufacturer understands the special attention paid to the quality features of its products: this means that every piece of furniture and every lighting object is put through its paces from development to completion. Both materials and manufacturing as well as the suppliers have to meet the high demands,a commitment to quality his ensures that all customer benefit from the best possible producer and excellent service. As with their furniture every detail of the Fritz Hansen accessories range is carefully thought through; meticulous precision and high-quality workmanship which are part of of every Fritz Hansen objects and add to the acclaim in which they are globally held.
Swan Chair from Fritz Hansen
Fritz Hansen takes into account Danish and international standards, and also sets its own, higher, standards. In this context, the manufacturer develops its own machines and special manufacturing processes, which enable more environmentally friendly production, reduces use of chemicals and enables better recycling strategies. With its machinery and the strict selection of materials and suppliers, the company always checks its production chain beyond the legal requirements. In order to steadily develop the quality of Fritz Hansen furniture and to exceed the expectations of its customers, the company carries out regular tests with various user groups; in addition, there is company has developed the "Premium Check", which ensures that every product is checked by a specially trained employee. Before being packaged and leaves the factory, each piece of furniture is accompanied by a dated and signed certificate, with which the user can register it on the Fritz Hansen Website and of thereby receive numerous advantages such as a warranty extension. In addition, members receive personal invitations to various events as well as information on care, companies, new products, special editions and promotions.
Series 7 resistance testing
Fritz Hansen values premium quality
At Fritz Hansen the focus is not only on timeless design, but also on the highest standards in terms of comfort and sustainability. The Danish manufacturer understands the concept of premium quality to mean paying particular attention to the quality features of its products. This means that every piece of furniture and lighting is thoroughly tested from development to completion. Beyond materials and production also the suppliers have to meet the high requirements: this ensures that every customer benefits from the best possible result and excellent service. As with their furniture the Fritz Hansen accessories present themselves as carefully thought through objects. Meticulous accuracy and high-quality workmanship are part of the manufacturing process for the design classics, which enjoy a high recognition value.
Fritz Hansen combines expertise and specialist knowledge
The visionary designs from Fritz Hansen with their high quality materials create a look that is unique and instantly recognizable. Delivering the best possible quality is the aim of Fritz Hansen, and the manufacturer is constantly ensuring its furniture is in compliance with contemporary standards. Sustainability also and especially plays an important role. The company works with designers, partners and suppliers who share the company's values, in this way, expertise is combined with specialist knowledge in order to bring about positive, sustainable change.
Fritz Hansen only uses certified wood in, for example the production of the legendary Ant
In its operations Fritz Hansen takes Danish and international standards into account and also sets its own high standards. And occasionally their own machines and special manufacturing processes, which enable more environmentally friendly production, use less chemicals and better recycling strategies. With its machine park and the strict selection of materials and suppliers, the company always monitors its production chain beyond the legal requirements.
In order to continuously improve the quality of Fritz Hansen furniture and to exceed customer expectations, the company carries out regular tests with various user groups. There is also the "Premium Check", which ensures that every product is checked by a specially trained employee before it is packed and leaves the factory, a dated and signed certificate is enclosed with each piece of furniture with which the user can register it on the Fritz Hansen website and benefit from various advantages such as a warranty extension of up to 20 years. Members also receive personal invitations to various events as well as information on care, new products, Special Editions and promotions.
The wood processed by Fritz Hansen comes from forests that are managed in compliance with ecological, social and ethical standards, and which is FSC certified. The processed leather is similarly responsibly sourced and processed, in that it is treated with dyes classified as harmless and gently tanned.
DROP by Fritz Hansen, guaranteed to be produced without harmful chemicals
The plastic components are free from phthalates (plasticizers) and flame retardants and are produced without polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Only pure glass is used in glass fibre reinforced plastics. All plastic waste is recycled and all large plastic parts are labelled with the type of plastic to ensure transparency in the recycling loop.
Made from processed household waste that can be recycled, the N02™ Recycle is a multi-purpose chair. Remarkable is the fold in the backrest of the chair, which is similar in design to a folded paper sheet and gives additional support to the back.
When trash turns into gold - the N02 by Fritz Hansen
The chair is available in different colour variations inspired by Scandinavian nature. Available with different bases, the Fritz Hansen recycled miracle is suitable for work, meeting and dining room areas.
Archive footage from the Fritz Hansen factory
High-quality seating in nature-inspired forms area strong focus of Fritz Hansen - something achieved in recent years through its collaboration with designers such as Cecilie Manz and Jaime Hayon. Designer furniture such as the Ro Armchair embody an international style, while each product is sophisticated in its own way, has a strong identity, and is able to fit elegantly into any room. With their portfolio, Fritz Hansen is perfect for style-conscious urbanite and international companies with an interest in luxury goods. The list of designers who have collaborated with Fritz Hansen is long, the list design classics even longer. While through the acquisition of the Danish lighting manufacturer Lightyears and the Objects collection from 2016, which is represented by works such as the the Objects Pouf and the Caravaggio Leuchten by Cecilie Manz represent important stations in the Fritz Hansen story. A special milestone was reached in 2018, with the campaign "60 years perfect Form" celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Egg and Swan Chairs as well as the Series 7.
Fri by Jaime Hayon and Objects Pouf by Cecilie Manz in a domestic setting
Among the many furniture designs that Fritz Hansen have launched since the company was founded in 1872, those of Arne Jacobsen have proved especially popular. Arne Jacobsen’s cooperation with the Danish designer Fritz Hansen started in 1934, but didn’t receive its defining moment until the release of Arne Jacobsen’s Ant Chair in 1952. With the follow-up Series 7 in 1955 Fritz Hansen and Arne Jacobsen finally entered the history of furniture design. Many of Jacobsen’s designs continue to define the portfolio of the Danish designer furniture manufacturer. Arne Jacobsen however worked not only as a designer, but also as an architect and a project in which these two professions perfectly combined is the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Developed in the late 1950s, Arne Jacobsen was responsible for both the construction but also the furnishings and furniture: popular design classics such as the Egg Chair, Swan Chair and 3300 series resulting. Furniture which was, somewhat inevitably, taken by Fritz Hansen into series production.
Interior of the SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen
With the Ant Chair Fritz Hansen wanted to build on the successes of the American modern chair designs and commissioned Arne Jacobsen to design a similar all-purpose moulded plywood chair. The furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen had experimented with bent plywood since 1872 and created with the Ant Chair the first three-dimensionally shaped plywood seat where the seat and the backrest are made of a single piece. To guarantee the objects stability the seat was given its distinctive shape, which ultimately became the name under which it is popularly known. Arne Jacobsen designed the chair for Fritz Hansen as a three-legged model; however, Fritz Hansen also insisted on a four-legged alternative, because such are more stable.
Ant Chair and Caravaggio lamp by Fritz Hansen
The Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen is one of the most commercially successful chairs in furniture history, and is the undisputed bestseller in the history of Fritz Hansen. The moulded veneer chair can technically be seen as a further development of the Ant, is lightweight, stackable and available in many different versions. The Series 7 is available as an armchair, swivel chair, bar stool and child's chair. The most famous of these Fritz Hansen chairs is also known as Arne Jacobsen 3107.
Serie 7 3107 New Colours
Arne Jacobsen designed the Egg Chair for the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, a project for which he planned numerous other furniture objects and lamps as well as the building itself. Formally based on the classic wing chair, The Egg chair by Arne Jacobsen with its almost sculptural appearance can in may ways be considered as defining a space within a space. Existing exclusively of curves the chair is composed of a plastic shell padded with polyurethane foam such that it produces an extravagant shape with minimal material usage. The Egg Chair is completed in its organic form by the matching ottoman and by the Swan Chair which Arne Jacobsen also by him for the SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen.
Fritz Hansen's design classic no. 1: Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair
Together with The Egg and The Swan Arne Jacobsen also created The Drop for his 1958 work of art, the SAS Hotel in Copenhagen. At that time only produced in small numbers for the hotel, the chair with the subtle yet strong character was first produced as a modern plastic version by Fritz Hansen in 2014.
The plastic chair Drop in soft pink
Also known as the super-elliptical table, Arne Jacobsen designed the Piet Hein Table together with the mathematician and philosopher Piet Hein, who coined the term superellipse, and designer Bruno Mathsson. Its shape oscillates between ellipse and rectangle.
White Piet Hein Table with Series 7 chairs
Arne Jacobsen's Grand Prix stands in a tradition with his other chair designs, all of which are made of laminated and moulded sliced veneer. The chair, which was launched in 1957, won the highest award at the Milan Triennale in the same year: the Grand Prix.
Dining room with Grand Prix chairs by Fritz Hansen
Designed in 1963 for the faculty of the St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, the Arne Jacobsen Oxford chair with its high back represents the prestige of a conventionally educated English middle class, yet can also hold its own against contemporary furniture design objects. And so thankful for the furniture series Arne Jacobsen designed for the college, he even received an honorary doctorate from Oxford.
Oxford conference chair by Arne Jacobsen
The curved shape of The Swan represents a key component of Arne Jacobsen’s interior design concept for the lobby and lounge area of the Royal Hotel Copenhagen. As with The Egg Chair Jacobsen created for the hotel, The Swan is an object without straight lines.
Swan Chair or simply The Swan
Kaiser Idell table lamp and Kaiser Idell scissor lamp by Christian Dell
The Bauhaus lamps by Christian Dell have been part of the Fritz Hansen range for several years. After the design classics had been produced in 1936 by the brothers Kaiser & Co. in Neheim-Hüsten in the German Sauerland, production was stopped in the 80s and it was not until 2007 that the production of the licensed Kaiser lamps resumed - in Vejle, Denmark. The road to the Danish manufacturer Fritz Hansen was then short. Today, the Kaiser Idell collection comprises numerous models - including table lamps, floor lamps as well as a pendant lamp, all of which come from the designer Christian Dell. The trained silversmith studied at the Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar, Germany under Henry van de Velde and later worked as a master in the metal workshop at the Bauhaus Weimar.
Scandinavian lamp Caravaggio by Cecilie Manz
In addition to the Kaiser Idell lamps, the Fritz Hansen lighting portfolio also includes various contemporary designs by well-known designers such as Cecilie Manz, Gam Fratesi or Michael Geertsen. Employing a variety of high-quality materials, such as porcelain, plastic, or metal, which are processed by highly qualified Fritz Hansen professionals. The respective material properties underscore the character of the designer lamps, which are defined by functionality and elegance, each having its own characteristic form and unmistakable detail solutions. For example, the Dogu porcelain light from 2018 features a semi-transparent bone china lampshade connected to a gold or silver-coloured aluminium suspension, while the Orient pendant, named after its drop-like form, features an aluminium construction with a solid wood suspension. Fritz Hansen lamps thus meet the highest demands on functionality in differing room situations, and each tell their very own story and always express new, innovative and original design solutions.
Calabash lamp from Fritz Hansen
Black Orient pendant light
Night Owl from Fritz Hansen
Nendo's N01 chairs, Cecilie Manz's Caravaggio lamp and Jacobsen's Piet Hein table from Fritz Hansen
With the reissue of established design classics such as those of Arne Jacobsen or Christian Dell, the aims of Fritz Hansen is far from fulfilled. The Danish company is constantly developing new products; new designs which blend harmoniously into the existing portfolio and can be seen as the natural evolution of popular classics such as the Egg Chair. Particularly with the collaboration with Jaime Hayon, Fritz Hansen has recently set a new accent.
Blue Fri armchair by Jaime Hayon
Ro armchair from Fritz Hansen
Objects Tray Tables in black
Founded in 1872, the Danish furniture company Fritz Hansen has established a name for itself above all with seating furniture by the legendary designer Arne Jacobsen. In addition, the Fritz Hansen portfolio also includes a wide range of design genres and relies equally on classic and current design. For all among the Fritz Hansen accessories you will find contemporary designs by renowned designers which perfectly complement the portfolio and set very individual accents in any living area. For example, designs such as the Objects Tray by Wednesday Architecture or Jaime Hayon's Objects Vase radiate minimalist calm, while objects such as the Objects Tray Table by Willumsen & Engelholm with its sophisticated details guarantee distinctive accents
In the Ikebana Vase, Scandinavian design tradition meets that from Japan
The no frills Objects Design vases by Fritz Hansen
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