Vintage View: Jacobsen drop chair

If you’re wondering about that repetitive piercing squeal audible from some distant south Dublin suburb — relax — it’s simply the nails of rain-soaked Arne Jacobsen fans clawing at the front windows of ‘Lost Weekend’ in Dun Laoghaire.

This week sees the re-launch by Fritz Hansen of a very special chair. One could call it the elbowed chair, though it is in fact, without arms. However, the teasingly named Drop was once excluded from a very special group of furniture created in 1958 for the Scandinavian Airline System Royal (SAS), Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.

This tear-shaped beauty of mid-century design was laid in the same nest as the Egg and the Swan chairs celebrated in corporate, curated and private settings throughout the world for over 50 years.