Furniture manufacturer Howe has relaunched the Tongue chair, originally designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1955.
Designing furniture and designing architecture often went hand-in-hand for Jacobsen, for example his design of St Catherine’s College in Oxford included the Oxford Chair, which I wrote about previously. The Tongue chair was designed for Munkegaard School in Gentofte, just north of Copenhagen in Denmark, which led to the St Catherine’s commission. Virtually everything in the school was designed by Jacobsen from fittings, desks and chairs to lighting and curtains, as well as the gardens.
Lars Bruntse of Howe said: “When the opportunity came our way, we simply could not let it pass. And we’ll admit it; we fell in love with this original and elegant design right away. And now we have the opportunity to give the Tongue the wider attention it deserves”.
The Tongue has been relaunched in beech, oak and walnut veneers as well as stained veneer in black, white and teak. It is also available in both fabric and leather, in colours ranging from light pink to cognac.
