Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
...And an attempt to develop affordable, mass producible, furniture for a mass public in 1950s Denmark, an attempt to develop furniture appropriate for and responsive to the realities of 1950s Denmark, that can also be understood in the 1955 Series 7 by Arne Jacobsen... A work Jacobsen developed from the three-legged 1952 Ant chair, essentially, because Fritz Hansen wanted a four-legged side chair and Arne Jacobsen didn't want a four-legged Ant, and in many regards is that work which best typifies the move observable in context of the exhibition Arne Jacobsen – Designing Denmark at Trapholt, Kolding, in Jacobsen's oeuvre away from project specific designs which could become consumer products but weren't intended as consumer products, such as the Ant, to works designed for an anonymous mass public, such as Series 7; an indication of Jacobsen's increasing understanding after the 1939-1945 War of design as a component of wider society, of design as a service for society...
