The team on Ponsonby News loves all types of design… so we asked six local furniture entrepreneurs, on this month’s issue front cover to select one favourite current piece available in their showroom. Here are their favourites…
One of my favourite mid century chairs would definitely have to be the Poul Kjaerholm’s PK31 Lounge Chair.
Kjaerholm, unlike many of his fellow Danish designers, who typically chose wood as their primary furniture construction material, chose steel.
He was drawn to the refraction of light from the metal’s surface, but always combined it with other materials such as wood, marble, cane or leather.
The PK31 (1958) is incredibly elegant and understated with an overt sense of strength from the steel frame. The clean lines of this chair almost disguise the incredible comfort factor experienced from the feather filled leather cushions.
The boy in me loves the thought of these chairs playing vital roles in the 50’s and 60’s in smoke-filled offices of establishments such as the FBI with Hoover and his G-Men in their black suits, scheming ways of capturing those on the ‘most wanted’ list.
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