Ant™ Chair, 3 Legs - 3100
Made by Fritz Hansen
Designed by Arne Jacobsen
In 1952, Arne Jacobsen resolved a challenge that had preoccupied furniture designers for a decade: how to press a single sheet of wood veneer into a continuous, body-fitted form without it splitting. The answer was the Ant, model 3100, produced by Fritz Hansen using a then-novel moulding technique that fused heat, pressure, and material precision into one fluid gesture.
The silhouette is instantly readable: a waist-pinched shell that echoes the insect it was named after, perched on a three-legged tubular steel frame. That reduction of the form to its absolute minimum was not an aesthetic choice alone. Jacobsen was working within the constraints of a Novo Nordisk canteen commission, and the three-legged configuration allowed chairs to be stacked and moved with efficiency. The constraint produced the poetry.
Oak veneer brings warmth and grain variation to the shell, each unit carrying the natural character of the wood. The chrome steel tube frame keeps the base light and visually open, preserving the sense that the shell is almost suspended above the floor.
- Three-legged base in chrome tubular steel
- Moulded shell in oak veneer
- Designed by Arne Jacobsen, 1952
- Produced by Fritz Hansen, Denmark
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