During the last 10 years, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen has established himself as one of the best suggestions of Danish furniture design of an architect to follow old masters like Wegner, Juhl, and Jacobsen. With a large and varied production of furniture for a number of the finest Danish manufacturers, it is also clear that he is his own master. The interest in testing limits - both in terms of conventional production techniques and in terms of the potentials of the materials - has resulted in quite unique pieces of furniture, most recently in collaboration with EH Møbler in Odense, who will show a conference chair with a new and exciting expression at the up-coming furniture fair in the Bella Center. The art of what is possible

The chair is planned as the first element in a series, later to be supplemented by a table. According to Hans Sandgren Jakobsen as well as H. Hartvig Olsen, managing director of EH Møbler, the chair is an experiment which in principle should not be viable. When the experiment turned out successfully, it was essentially due to Hans Snadgren Jakobsen's background as a cabinet-maker, his fine sense for the potentials of the materials, Hartvig Olsen's trust in the idea, as well as the ekspertise of EH in manufacturing chairs. The major challenge is the minimal radius of the seat and the bent ends of the seat and the back - important design elements that contribute to the unique expression of the chair and at the same time makes it optimally comfortable.

Playing with light and shadow

The chair consists of two nearly identical laminated shells with a "curved flap" in the upper part of the back and the outer part of the seat, respectively. The flap, almost creating an illusion of a wing, provides the chair with an elegant lightness, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen explains, the inspiration being a wing flirting with light and shadow. The wing catches the light but it also makes shadow effects, thus adding an important dynamics to the design, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen thinks and emphasizes that the decorative effect definitely also has a functional one. The wing of the back makes it possible to obtain a firm grip of the chair, whereas the wing of the seat contributes to making the chair very comfortable.

Ergonomics and comfort

Hans Sandgren Jakobsen attaches just as much importance to ergonomics and comfort as to aesthetics. An organically formed seat and a fine breadth make the chair comfortable - even for a longer period of time. A rather important detail for a conference chair. If a more comfortable chair is needed, the chair is availabe with upholstered seat or upholstered seat and back. In both cases the characteristic wings will kept "bare", so that the upholstered version remains light in design. Apart from this, the chair which is equipped with a simple and elegant steel frame comes with or without arm rests. Again you choose between an upholstered arm rest or a laminated arm rest, both to be directly attached.

One concept - several solutions

Even though the starting point is the same, the chair comes in many different versions. It is not just a matter of choosing arm rests or not, upholstered or partly upholstered. You will also need to decide on the type of wood: birch, maple, beech, cherry, or walnut.