Image source: Fredericia — Søborg Chair, Wood Base
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Søborg Chair, Wood Base
Børge Mogensen's 1950 moulded-plywood chair on a solid wood frame, Model 3050
510 × 800 × 485 mm
1950
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Søborg Wood Base (Model 3050) is the wooden-seat version of the Søborg chair by Børge Mogensen, designed in 1950. Fredericia calls it a comfortable chair with generous proportions in the seat and back and names restaurants, meeting rooms, casual workspaces and private homes as places it suits. Size: 51 cm wide, 48.5 cm deep, 80 cm high, seat height 45.5 cm; weight 5 kg.
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Construction
A solid wood frame carries a seat and back of moulded plywood. Seat and back are interchangeable and mounted with black metal screws; the chair stands on plastic glides.
Specifications
- Woods: walnut lacquer, oak lacquer, oak oil and oak black lacquer (the oak finishes FSC Mix 70%)
- Weight: 5 kg
- Tests: EN 1022:2005 and EN 16139:2013 (L2)
- Certificate: oak is FSC® certified
Story
The first wooden version
Fredericia credits Børge Mogensen with the wooden chair of 1950, which it describes as the first version of the Søborg and which was later joined by other variants.
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Parts that can be replaced
According to the page, the chair has replaceable components that can be renewed separately. Fredericia describes the chair as circular by design: because the components are separate, a damaged chair can be repaired part by part or its materials recycled.
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Collection
Søborg
The Søborg series by Børge Mogensen for Fredericia: six chairs on a wood or steel base, bare or upholstered, from the 1950 wood original to the 1952 steel one.