Image source: Carl Hansen & Søn — KK48650 Addition Sofa
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KK48650 Addition Sofa
Kaare Klint's modular Addition Sofa: leather pleats, buttons and piping on an oak frame
920 × 790 × 700 mm
1933
Approx. $7,000 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
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Description
Overview
The KK48650 Addition Sofa by Kaare Klint is a modular sofa with a back. Carl Hansen & Søn says it was inspired by a French rococo sofa and describes the design as a bold testament to simplification and purpose.
Construction
- Frame: oak, oil (walnut, oil in two further versions)
- Upholstery: Leather Sif 90 (Sif 98 and Sif 91 on the walnut versions)
- Detailing: piping around the seat and back; leather pleats forming rhomboid panels held by leather-covered buttons
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Specifications
- 92 x 70 cm, H 79 cm
Story
From rococo to simplification
The sofa takes its starting point in a French rococo sofa, which Klint reduced to a clear, purposeful form.
Carlsberg offices and the 1933 exhibition
The first version was made in the early 1930s for the New Carlsberg Foundation offices in Copenhagen. Klint kept refining it and showed the final Addition Sofa at the 1933 Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild Exhibition.
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