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Fritz Hansen Will Produce Previously Unreleased Arne Jacobsen Chair Design

Arne Jacobsen is perhaps best known for his Egg or Swan chairs:

Another of his chair designs, the Giraffe, is perhaps well-known only among design geeks. The Giraffe was designed in 1959 specifically for the SAS Royal Hotel’s restaurant and had, as the name suggests, a rather high back.

As it turns out, Jacobsen also designed a less back-centric version of this chair, the Little Giraffe. For reasons unknown, it never went into production. But now rights holder Fritz Hansen has inserted the blueprints into the slot of their furniture factory and will be turning the production line on.

They’ll be releasing two versions: An adjustable-height version with your standard office-friendly star base on casters, and a fixed four-legged base for restaurants, cafes and the like.

Each will come in either leather or fabric; the latter comes as a removable cover (affixed by zippers and Velcro) that can be removed for easy cleaning.

The Little Giraffe will roll out in February of 2019.