BY LASSEN RELAUNCHES THE TIRED MAN – THE MOST EXPENSIVE CHAIR EVER SOLD IN DENMARK

Flemming Lassen designed the overstuffed easy chair, The

Tired Man, for The Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild

Competition in 1935. It is characterised by organic, bearlike

shapes and then as now it created a sensation with its

curved form and voluminous armrests. Sitting in the chair

should, in Flemming Lassen’s own words, be ”as warm and

safe as a polar bear cub in the arms of its mother in the mid

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dle of the ice cap”. The family man Flemming Lassen valued

intimate relationships - with its warm exterior, The Tired Man

invokes domestic cosiness and socialising by candlelight.

Upholstered furniture has become directly synonymous with

Flemming Lassen and today the ”Flemming Lassen style” is

hotter than ever. The style was introduced by Lassen in the

1930s and with its chubby, vigorous idiom, The Tired Man

is a perfect example of it.

The increased interest in Flemming Lassen’s unique furniture

was underlined at a historic auction at Bruun Rasmussen

Auctioneers in September 2014, where the chair’s price

massively exceeded the estimate at no less than 1.42 million

Danish kroner, setting the record as Denmark’s most expen

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sive chair ever sold at auction.

Out of respect for the original design, by Lassen is relaunch

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ing The Tired Man in two versions, one in wool and one

in sheepskin. The easy chair is one of a small number of

furniture items from Flemming Lassen and as Denmark’s

currently most sought-after furniture architect in the auction

world, there is no doubt about The Tired Man’s position as

a masterful icon.