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Initially, Arne Jacobsen designed the Ant Chair for the canteen at Novo Nordisk, an international Danish healthcare company. The inspiration for the Ant Chair came from Hvidt & Mølggard’s AX-series. Today, the Ant is one of the most prominent icons in the collection. "In my opinion, the Ant is the most influential example of furniture design in the 20th century" says Kjeld Vindum, who add "It is an immensely important chair because it takes into account the new way of life and the new possibilities, and at the same time it has an elegant and up-to-date expression. It is one of Arne Jacobsen's masterpiece.
Despite its minimalist form and svelte shape, the Ant is an extremely comfortable chair. The shell is in pressure molded veneer. The inner shell is always made of beech, but the Ant Chair Wood Version comes in many different outer veneers: maple, beech, fir, ash, elm, oak, walnut and cherry.
The Ant Chair is also available in coloured or lacquered ash.
Seat height 4 legs 44 cm or 46 cm, 3 legs 44 cm
Total height 78 or 80.5 cm.
Width 48 cm.
Depth 48 cm.
Warranty Fritz Hansen offer up to 20 years limited warranty if the products are registered online at fritzhansen.com/my-republic
9 shell finishes
ash
beech
elm
maple
oak
dark stained oak
walnut
cherry
Oregon (Douglas) pine
deposit for free samples
95 €
6 leg finishes
chrome
silver grey
nine grey
brown bronze
warm graphite
black
Ant 4 legs – oak
399 €
Ant 4 legs – dark stained oak / light edge
399 €
Ant 4 legs – elm
399 €
Ant 4 legs – dark stained oak / dark edge
399 €
Ant 4 legs – beech
399 €
Ant 4 legs – walnut
399 €
Ant 4 legs – ash
399 €
Ant 4 legs – Oregon (Douglas) pine
399 €
Ant 4 legs – maple
399 €
Ant 4 legs – cherry
399 €
Ant 3 legs – oak
399 €
Ant 3 legs – dark stained oak / light edge
399 €
Ant 3 legs – elm
399 €
Ant 3 legs – dark stained oak / dark edge
399 €
Ant 3 legs – beech
399 €
Ant 3 legs – walnut
399 €
Ant 3 legs – ash
399 €
Ant 3 legs – Oregon (Douglas) pine
399 €
Ant 3 legs – maple
399 €
Ant 3 legs – cherry
399 €
Arne Jacobsen was born on February 11, 1902 in Copenhagen. His father, Johan Jacobsen, is a wholesale trader in safety pins and snap fasteners. His mother, Pouline Jacobsen, a bank clerk, paints floral motifs in her spare time. The family lived in a typical Victorian style home. As a contrast to his parents’ overly decorated taste, Arne paints his room in white.
Background & school relations
He met the Lassen brothers at Nærum Boarding School: later, Flemming Lassen was to become his partner in a series of architectural projects. Arne Jacobsen is a restless pupil, always up to pranks, with a self-deprecating humour. Already as a child, he showed an extraordinary talent for drawing and depicting nature through scrupulous studies. He wants to be painter, but his father felt that architect was a more sensible choice.
The Pleasant and the necessary trips abroad
Jacobsen’s travelling begin already in his twenties, when he went to sea to New York. Then followed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Germany and a series of study and drawing excursions to Italy. Jacobsen produced some of his finest watercolours during this period, capturing atmospheres and shapes accurately and carefully. From the beginning of his career, Jacobsen turned his gaze abroad, without abandoning Danish traditions.
Arne Jacobsen behind the design
Jacobsen production reflects his personality: an insistent, perfectionist modernist, to whom no detail was trivial, although the main picture was basically black/white and unambiguous. On the other hand, the nature-loving botanist and jovial family man: like him, his work is precise and warm, Danish and universal, modern and timeless.
