Ant Chair by Arne Jacobsen, 1952

• Designed By - Arne Jacobsen
• When - 1952
• Made From - Steel pipe and laminated wood
• Manufactured By - Fritz Hansen
• More Info - This was Jacobsen's first stacking chair and one of his best-known designs.  It is available in either natural wood veneer or colours in lacquer or lazur. At first most people were sceptical about it because it only had three legs and no arms. Despite it being very minimal it is actually very comfortable. It was originally designed for use in the canteen of the Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk.  It was designed to be light, stable and easy to stack up. The Ant Chair can refer to model 3100 which has three legs, or model 3101 which has four, that was added in 1980.