"Kaiwen Kan Design Series"-New Year Special
Product Name: GJ Leisure Chair
Designer: Gretel Jalk
Design time: 1963
Such a classic and unique chair, even now in 2020, most furniture manufacturers can not accept to try to produce, people seem to have been used to always want to get the best things with the least cost.
Grete Jalk was born in 1920. Studied law and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. But after studying philosophy, she dropped out of school and worked as a teacher in a women's painting and art school for a year. Since 1941, she has worked as an apprentice for 3 years in the joiner Karen Margrethe Conradsen. She went to the Art and Craft Furniture School and graduated in 1946. Then in 1950 she was taught in Kaare Klint at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in furniture until 1960 she also became a teacher in this school. In 1954, she opened her own design studio and won the ranking in the furniture exhibition held by the British Daily Mail in 1963 with her GJ chair made of molded plywood. In the same year, this GJ chair was included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is still displayed in the exhibition hall.
Lange Production is a furniture manufacturer in Copenhagen. In the picture, this is a set of re-produced model plywood chairs and tables. It was designed by Danish designer Grete Jalk in 1963. Due to the complicated process of making chairs, only 300 pieces were produced at that time, and very few were preserved. Lange Production Company obtained its exclusive rights. They used good teak and pine for re-production, so that this classic furniture can continue to show its unique design charm.