{{Short description|Chair designed by Arne Jacobsen}} {{Infobox furniture | name = Model 3107 chair | image = Mz-Rathaus-AJ-3207+3108+3107+3107.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Models 3207, 3108, and 3107 in the City Hall Mainz, Germany | designer = Arne Jacobsen | date = 1955 | materials = Steel frame, fabric cover | style = Modernist | sold_by = Fritz Hansen (Denmark) | height = | width = | depth = }}
The '''Model 3107 chair''' is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955. It is a variation on the Ant Chair, also designed by Arne Jacobsen. Over five million units have been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen.
==Description== The chair, along with the Jacobsen's Ant chair, was, according to Jacobsen, inspired by a chair made by the husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames using their plywood bending techniques.<ref name="DESIGNMUS">{{cite web |publisher=Design Museum |url=https://designmuseum.org/design/chairs-1950s |title=Chairs - 1950s |work=Photography |access-date=2019-04-14}}</ref>
The chair is available with several different undercarriages—as a regular four-legged chair, an office chair with five wheels, and as a bar stool. It can come equipped with armrests, a writing table attachment, and various forms of upholstery.
The chair is widely believed to have been used in Lewis Morley's iconic 1963 photograph of Christine Keeler; however, the chair used in this photograph was an imitation and not an original Jacobsen model.<ref name="AlbusKras2000">{{cite book|author1=Volker Albus|author2=Reyer Kras|author3=Jonathan M. Woodham|title=Icons of Design!: The 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DelTAAAAMAAJ|access-date=30 June 2013|year=2000|publisher=Prestel|page=100|isbn=9783791323060 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum |url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O76201/the-keeler-chair-chair-unknown/ |title=The Keeler Chair (Unknown) |work=Photography |access-date=2019-04-14}} Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, October 2013. Notes: Although made in Denmark, Keeler's chair is in fact an early 'rip-off' of Jacobsen's design. Morley claimed to have bought the chair at a Heal's sale in 1962 for £2.</ref> The Keeler chair had a handhold cut in the back. After the publication of the pictures, sales of the chair rose dramatically.<ref>dwell.com: [http://www.dwell.com/articles/the-3107-chair.html The 3107 Chair]</ref>
<gallery class="center" mode="nolines" heights="220px" widths="180px" caption="Other images"> File:No7Arne-Jacobsen.jpg|The chairs are easy to stack. (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) File:Model 3107 Chair red.jpg|A more recent chair, red painted ash colour </gallery>
==See also== * Bentwood * Molded plywood * Swan (chair) * List of chairs
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Series 7 chairs (Arne Jacobsen)}} * [https://www.fritzhansen.com/categories/products/indoor/seating/chairs Official Series 7 chair website] {{Arne Jacobsen}}
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