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Series 7

Arne Jacobsen's stacking chair of moulded veneer on steel legs, model 3107, made by Fritz Hansen since 1955.

Designed by
Arne Jacobsen
First made
1955

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Series 7 chairs in four colours
Series 7 chairs in four colours

Pictures © Fritz Hansen, from fritzhansen.com.

Why it is renowned

More than five million Series 7 chairs have been made, all by Fritz Hansen.1 The Victoria and Albert Museum in London took a 3107 made by Fritz Hansen into its collection in 1970.2 Lewis Morley's 1963 photographs of Christine Keeler show an early copy of it, now also in the V&A; sales of the 3107 rose sharply after the pictures were published.31

Recognition

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London21970a 3107 chair by Fritz Hansen in its collection (CIRC.371-1970)

The story

Arne Jacobsen designed the model 3107 in 1955 as a development of his Ant chair of 1952, using Fritz Hansen's moulded plywood;4 by his own account the two chairs owed a debt to the moulded plywood of Charles and Ray Eames.1 It comes with four legs, as an office chair on five castors or as a bar stool, and with armrests, a writing tablet or upholstery.1 The chairs stack.1

  • Ant chair, the 1952 chair it developed from
  • Egg chair, by the same designer
  • KV1, Arne Jacobsen's one-handle kitchen mixer for VOLA
  • HV1, Arne Jacobsen's basin mixer of 1968 for VOLA
  • 111, Arne Jacobsen's one-handle build-in mixer for VOLA
Sources
  1. Model 3107 chair, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 16 October 2026.
  2. 3107 chair, Victoria and Albert Museum. api.vam.ac.uk, read 16 October 2026.
  3. The Keeler Chair, Victoria and Albert Museum. api.vam.ac.uk, read 16 October 2026.
  4. Series 7 70th Anniversary Exhibition, Fritz Hansen. fritzhansen.com, read 16 October 2026.

Checked 16 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.