The original Swan chair was designed by Arne Jacobsen as part of a project for the Radissonโs Royal Hotel in Copenhagen that also included the Egg chair. Arne Jacobsenโs design consisted of a curved hard plastic seat on a polished aluminium stand.
The aluminium swiveling base was not part of the original design for the Swan chair. It previously had a set of cross-shaped legs made from laminated beech wood.
The owner of this apartment on the Upper West Side in New York is a mid century modern art and furniture collector. The interior designers are Jayne and Joan Michaels, two sisters in love with colors.
The Michaels sisters find inspiration for their interiors choices in paintings, yesโฆif they think of a painting that could work well in the space they are decorating, they keep it in mind to reproduce the colors in the room/s using furniture and art; a very interesting approach.
If we think toย mid century modern architectureย or interiors our mind probably first goes to western locations as California or North Europe, but I think it
