The cover of Ideal Home for February 1956 showing a three-legged Ant chair
The Ant chair is a classic of modern chair design. It was designed in 1952 by Arne Jacobsen for use in the canteen of the Danish pharamceutical firm Novo Nordisk. The Ant (Myren in Danish) was named for its approximate similarity to the outline of an ant with its head raised. Look up chair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, as seen from the west. ... Canteen has several different meanings: Canteen (place), a private cafe, restaurant, or cafeteria at a school, office, or military base. ... Novo Nordisk manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products and services. ... Subfamilies Dorylomorph subfamilies Apomyrminae Cerapachyinae Dorylinae Ecitoninae Formicomorph subfamilies: Aneuretinae Dolichoderinae Formicinae - e. ... A human head In anatomy, the head of an animal is the anterior part (from anatomical position) that comprises the mouth, the brain and various sensory organs (e. ...
The chair was designed to be light, stable, easy to stack up, and to minimise tangling the user's feet. The original model had three plastic legs and a seat made from form-moulded laminated veneer; Novo ordered just 300 of them. They were manufactured by Fritz Hansen. The chair has since proved very popular although the plastic in the legs was replaced by tubular steel, and a version with four legs was also made. The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...
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