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Limit Lounge Chair
A 1974 lounge chair of two steel rails and a load-bearing padded cover
700 × 680 × 680 mm
1974
Approx. $1,200 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Overview
Limit Lounge Chair is a lounge chair by Niels Bendtsen, originally created in Copenhagen in 1974 and reissued by Normann Copenhagen. Two steel rails with padded fabric suspended between them define both structure and comfort.
Construction
The steel frame is offered powder-coated for indoor use or electroplated for outdoor use. The padded textile cover is load-bearing, has an inner layer of PVC-PET net-like weave and an outer layer of wadding and upholstery, and is zipped onto the frame. Optional connectors link chairs together.
Specifications
70 x 68 x 68 cm (714702); seat height 37 cm; 8.4 kg.
Story
Created in the oil crisis
Normann Copenhagen says the Limit Lounge Chair was created in 1974 in Copenhagen during the oil crisis, with minimal waste and maximum logic. Bendtsen, it adds, turned limitation into possibility and let necessity define both structure and expression.
A place in MoMA
Guided by his principle of logical, functional design, Bendtsen made the chair from a single material with added upholstery. The manufacturer says its simplicity and ingenuity won it a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Normann Copenhagen has reissued it.