Republic of Fritz Hansen
by We are in 1847 in Denmark. Beyond the opening of the first Carlsberg brewery and the first railway in the country, inaugurated by King Christian VIII, as normal a year as any. Also this year, in a small town on an island off the coast of Denmark was born Fritz Hansen, one of the leading promoters of design and Danish way of life.
We are in 1847 in Denmark. Beyond the opening of the first Carlsberg brewery and the first railway in the country, inaugurated by King Christian VIII, as normal a year as any. Also this year, in a small town on an island off the coast of Denmark was born Fritz Hansen, one of the leading promoters of design and Danish way of life.
In the time of adolescence, young Fritz is apprenticed to a local carpenter, but at the age of 25 years decides to leave the capital, Copenhagen, and to open their own shop. In short, he obtained a “Certificate of bourgeois status” as master carpenter, specializing in the manufacture of cabinets. Next workshop opening its first store, at first very small, but well positioned near the Danish royal residence, Amalienborg Palace.
After 24 years in Copenhagen, Hansen Lillerød expands its business in the city, north of the capital, and in just two years to open and manage a sawmill. In 1899, his son, Christian Edvard Hansen takes over the family business, which currently has over 50 employees.
Three years later, Fritz Hansen died at only 55 years due to chronic health problems. In the same year is a third generation family and Hansen by Edvard Christian’s son, Paul Fritz. Amid the current century functionalist, Hansen began to transform the company from a small manufacturing in an industrial manufacturer of furniture. During the peak of the current and Bauhaus functionalism, the company founded by senior Hansen begins to experiment with new materials and industrial techniques revolutionary for its time, enabling it to create entirely new designs.
In 1915, the company produced the first chair made of bent wood, steam became iconic for Fritz Hansen, and begins to produce a series of tubular steel furniture inspired by the work of Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies arthiectilor van der Rohe.
Sons of Christian Hansen and Søren Poul Christian Fritz, and they fall in the family business in 1928 and marks the beginning of another important era in the history of the company. Six years later, the company co-opt young designer architect Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen, the first two viewings of a long line of artists employed by the company.
Since then and until now, Fritz Hansen brand, or the Republic of Fritz Hansen, formally known as the company was one of the Scandinavian design tips. The furniture company is currently in several galleries of modern art museums, notably the New York MoMA (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art) and the Guggenheim Museum, and the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, near the Arctic Circle. Full details on fritzhansen.com
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