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Architonic ID: 1521244
Year of Launch: 1955
MATERIAL
frame: tubular steel, powder coated
black (RAL 9005)
seat and backrest: birch plywood, lacquered
black (RAL 9005)
DIMENSIONS
width: 490 mm
depth: 570 mm
height: 780 mm
seat height: 450 mm
Concept
A distinctive chair with charm: ›Frog‹. Designed in 1955, the stackable chair was originally developed for lecture theatres, and Herbert Hirche affectionately named his chair ›Frog‹. It features unique details, for example the colour of the metal elements in the armrest and seat always match the colour of the frame. Slightly modified designs of this charming piece of furniture had already been shown in the 1950s at the ›Bauen und Wohnen‹ exhibition in Stuttgart and at ›Kieler Wochen‹. ›Frog‹ is available in various colour combinations and in a natural oak design.
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Herbert Hirche
Germany
Herbert Hirche, born in Görlitz in 1910, studied cabinet making at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin from 1930 to 1933, including studying under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at whose office he worked until 1938. Collaboration with Egon Eiermann and Hans Schauron was followed by appointment as Professor at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Berlin-Weißensee, and in 1952 at the Staatliche Akademie für Bildende Künste, Stuttgart. As its Rector, as founding member of the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin, as President of the Verband Deutscher Industriedesigner (VDID), and as member of the German Design Council, Hirche was one of the formative German designers of the post-war period until his death in 2002. In addition to many furniture ranges, for example the 480 range which was shown as the World Exposition in Brussels in 1958, he designed an administration building for Wilkhahn (1960).