"A CHAIR IS ONLY FINISHED WHEN SOMEONE SITS IN IT", AS HANS WEGNER SAID. WE TEND TO AGREE. THE SELECTION OF A CHAIR IS, INDEED, QUITE PERSONAL.
The Grand Prix™ chair is a chair with graphic edge. It was introduced at the Designers’ Spring Exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art & Design in 1957. Later that year, the chair was displayed at the Triennale in Milan where it received the Grand Prix, the finest distinction of the exhibition. The celebrated chair comes in both a steel or wood base and can be customised through a series of colours, wood types and upholstery.
The Grand Prix with steel legs reflects Arne Jacobsen’s larger collection of stackable plywood chairs with tubular steel legs.
Wooden legs are angled smoothly outwards in this design, mimicking the steel legs of Jacobsen’s other plywood chairs. This is one of the few Arne Jacobsen chair designs with wooden legs. Remember that the Grand Prix chair with wooden legs is not stackable.