Grand Prix™ - Wooden Legs
Arne Jacobsen, 1957
The Grand Prix™ chair is an iconic Arne Jacobsen design with a 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 a range of models and can be customised with an almost endless variety of colours, wood types and upholstery. 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.
It is said that as a child growing up in Copenhagen, Arne Jacobsen painted over the Victorian wallpaper in his bedroom. But young Arne did not cover his walls with typical childish drawings or paint the ornate wallpaper boyish blue. Instead, he decided to paint his room entirely white. His decision may seem commonplace today, but in the early twentieth century white walls were not yet in fashion. From the very beginning, Arne Jacobsen was ahead of his time.
W 500 x H 830 x D 510 mm
Seat Height: 460 mm
Product Weight: 4.1 kg
Model: 4130.
Shell: Clear Lacquered Veneer / Coloured Veneer.
Finish: Oak or Walnut / White or Black.
Base: Clear Lacquered Veneer / Coloured Veneer.
Finish: Oak or Walnut / White or Black.
Feet with felt: No.
