'Model 3272' Oxford armchair for Fritz Hansen, Denmark

Notes

The original version of the Oxford armchair was designed in 1963 for the professors at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford. The chair’s extra tall back both served as a symbol of prestige and created a space of its own. These professors' chairs later evolved into the Oxford series introduced in 1965. In spite of initial protests & uproar over the commission of a foreign architect, Arne Jacobsen received an honorary doctorate from Oxford upon his completion of the project.