H55 Recliner Deck chair Heritage Papyrus - In stock (1pc) - last item

H55 Recliner Deck chair H55 Recliner Deck chair is a folding designed by Björn Hultén in the Handicraft Association's school in Gothenburg for the exhibition H55 in Helsingborg. The idea was to create a piece of furniture for both outside and inside, which could withstand both weather and wind, but at the same time was stylish enough to be able to serve as a spare chair in the living room. The construction with exposed legs, two joined parallel trapezoids, gives the recliner a completely different stability than the usual garden chair. When the two prototypes were shown at the school's spring exhibition just before H55, King Gustaf VI Adolf was an invited guest. He tried a recliner and praised the comfort, which made the young designer "grow from my normal 198 to at least 250". Perhaps the visit contributed to Björn Hultén then receiving a travel scholarship from the king's anniversary fund. Björn Hultén soon became one of the country's most hired interior designers. He donated one of the two prototypes to the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. The other, the one the king tried, ended up in the Hultén home. There it was only called the King's Chair. However, the Swedish furniture market was not ripe for the chair and it would be some time into the 1990s before Berga form took it into production.